New Party Vows to 'Reform' Political System (FBIS, 30 May 1996)
FBIS item (Jakarta Post, 30 May 1996): Sri Bintang Pamungkas announced the new Indonesian Democratic Union Party (PUDI) in defiance of the 1985 law, which recognises only three parties. S.K. Trimurti and Adnan Buyung Nasution attended but were not in the leadership line-up. Gerwani is not named.
Berita FBIS (Jakarta Post, 30 Mei 1996): Sri Bintang Pamungkas mengumumkan Partai Uni Demokrasi Indonesia (PUDI) meski melanggar UU 1985 yang hanya mengakui tiga organisasi politik. S.K. Trimurti dan Adnan Buyung Nasution hadir tetapi tidak masuk susunan pengurus. Gerwani tidak disebut.
TAPOL Bulletin no. 83 (London, Oct 1987) on East Timor at the UN, Kedung Ombo, labour unrest, Muslim trials and transmigration. A boxed item 'Serving 26 years for a 20-year sentence' profiles Siti Sundari, 66, a founding member of Gerwis and Gerwani, PKI candidate in 1955 and 1964 central committee candidate, jailed si
shared: Golkar, Adnan Buyung Nasution, Marzuki Darusman
TAPOL Bulletin no. 21, April 1977 (London). Covers the ICRC mission to seven Indonesian detention sites, Carter and human rights, East Timor testimony, Kopkamtib detention legality, official denials and the May elections. It prints a smuggled letter from a Salemba tapol to the Red Cross describing starvation, beri-beri
shared: Golkar, Indonesian Democratic Party, United Development Party, Poncke Princen
TAPOL Bulletin no. 80 (London, April 1987) on East Timor, the 1987 elections, the Societies Law and ex-tapol rights. A short 'Gerwani members arrested' item reports a woman called 'Mrs Har', said to be a former Gerwani member, arrested with her three daughters in Tanjung Priok (14 Feb 1987), and another alleged Gerwani
shared: Golkar, Indonesian Democratic Party, United Development Party, Adnan Buyung Nasution
TAPOL Bulletin no. 132 (December 1995), London-based human rights newsletter, mostly on East Timor (Xanana Gusmao interview, embassy asylum bids), Sri-Bintang Pamungkas's trial, labour unrest and Freeport. Relevant to 1965: 'The spectre haunting Suharto' on the regime's 'formless organisations' communist myth (p.13-16)
shared: Golkar, Sri Bintang Pamungkas
Jan Blokker column in De Volkskrant (12 Aug 1995) reviewing Dutch books on the Indies and the colonial past. Mrs. S.K. Trimurti appears only as an interviewee quoted in H.C. Beynon's "Verboden voor honden en inlanders", on living with Inggit after Sukarno's 1933 arrest. Gerwani is not mentioned.
shared: S.K. Trimurti, Poncke Princen
TAPOL Bulletin no. 52 (London, July 1982, 20 pp.): East Timor famine and the Nordland report, West Papua and transmigration, Dutch arms sales, Muslim political trials and torture, press bans (Tempo, Pelita), student repression, and an Atmakusumah book review noting that 46 of 163 newspapers were banned in October 1965.
shared: Golkar, Adnan Buyung Nasution
TAPOL Bulletin no. 133 (February 1996), London human rights newsletter on East Timor, West Papua hostage crisis, British investment, street children, Suharto's cabinet rifts, SBSI union harassment, Sri-Bintang's trial and AJI. Gerwani appears only in the review of Carmel Budiardjo's 'Surviving Indonesia's Gulag' (p.19-
shared: Sri Bintang Pamungkas
Tempo, 2 Sep 1989. Reports the release from Tangerang women's prison on 17 August 1989 of Sundari Abdulrachman (68), former chair of Gerwani Pusat and PKI member of DPRGR, sentenced to life at Tanjungkarang on 16 Oct 1976 (commuted 1982) for organising Gerwani in Lampung. Officials deny that Inter-Parliamentary Union p
shared: Marzuki Darusman