Foreign Office/CRO Papers on the PKI and Malaysia Confrontation (DO 169/516, 1964)
British Commonwealth Relations Office/Foreign Office file (DO 169/516, 1964) on Indonesia and Malaysia. It combines handwritten minutes, an IRD intelligence paper on the PKI (Aidit's December 1963 plenum, Sino-Soviet line, the prospect of PKI power within five years), a brief 'Communists smoothing path to power in Indonesia', and the Malayan government publication 'Malaya/Indonesia Relations 1957-1963'. It contains no reference to Gerwani or Indonesian women (scanned pages are largely illegible).
Berkas Commonwealth Relations Office/Foreign Office Inggris (DO 169/516, 1964) tentang Indonesia dan Malaysia. Isinya nota tulisan tangan, makalah intelijen IRD tentang PKI (plenum Aidit Desember 1963, garis Sino-Soviet, kemungkinan PKI berkuasa dalam lima tahun), ringkasan 'Communists smoothing path to power in Indonesia', serta publikasi pemerintah Malaya 'Malaya/Indonesia Relations 1957-1963'. Tidak ada rujukan pada Gerwani atau perempuan Indonesia (halaman pindaian sebagian besar tidak terbaca).
RAND paper P-2690 by Guy J. Pauker (Jan 1963, for Asian Survey), 'Indonesia: Towards Development or Expansionism?'. Surveys the West New Guinea settlement, the lifting of the state of emergency, PKI strength (Aidit versus Lukman factions), inflation, Soviet arms debt and the Brunei revolt. Mentions Gerwani once, as a P
shared: D.N. Aidit, Subandrio, Djuanda Kartawidjaja, Tunku Abdul Rahman
LBJ Library National Security File, Indonesia (Sept 1964-Feb 1965): White House/State memoranda, Djakarta cables and CIA OCI reports on Sukarno's leftward drift, 'Sukarnoism' anti-PKI movement, succession, Malaysia and the USIS library crisis. Includes the CIA 'Sukarno and the Communists' report, listing Women's Front
shared: D.N. Aidit, Subandrio, A.H. Nasution, Malaysia
UK Foreign Office file FO 371/181556 (Joint Malaysia-Indonesia Department, 1965): minutes, letters and telegrams on countering Indonesian propaganda during Konfrontasi (crashed-aircraft evidence, guidance telegram no. 36, Afro-Asian posts). It has nothing on Gerwani in the official papers. Filed within it is a printed
shared: Dwikora and Malaysia confrontation, Commonwealth Relations Office, Malaysia, Kalimantan
US National Intelligence Estimate 55-64, 22 July 1964, on Indonesia's prospects: Sukarno dominant, PKI strengthened, Konfrontasi driving a left drift. Mentions Gerwani only among PKI fronts (p. 5); context for pre-1965 US views.
shared: Dwikora and Malaysia confrontation, A.H. Nasution, malaysia confrontation, diplomatic and intelligence report
CIA Office of Current Intelligence Special Report SC 00642/64A, 'Sukarno and the Communists' (23 Oct 1964, Secret; declassified 1975). Analyses Sukarno's mutual exploitation with the PKI and Aidit's strategy; lists PKI front membership claims, including Gerwani at almost two million, beside BTI, SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat an
shared: Dwikora and Malaysia confrontation, D.N. Aidit, Subandrio, A.H. Nasution
UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180320 (Oct-Nov 1965): Gilchrist's despatch no. 13 of 8 Oct 1965 on the coup and counter-coup, plus telegrams, NATO and Commonwealth reports and Chinese/Soviet/Hanoi reactions. The despatch lists GERWANI among 'chief suspects' (p. 11) and says members of PKI youth and women's groups took p
shared: D.N. Aidit, Subandrio, A.H. Nasution, sino-soviet split
Neues Deutschland, 12 October 1965, p. 7. ND brief 'Malaysias Premier feiert Putschversuch' (Kuala Lumpur/Djakarta, citing AP and AFP): Tunku Abdul Rahman calls the 30 September coup attempt an 'answer to our prayers' and a chance to eliminate Indonesian communists. Citing a Jakarta Muslim daily, it reports that incite
shared: D.N. Aidit, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Toowoomba Chronicle, 31 Dec 1964, p. 1 (AAP-Reuters): Sukarno claims Indonesian police arrested two groups of armed Malaysian infiltrators and says 'Malaysia does not exist'. Second item: about 500 housewives, including Mrs Subandrio, protest rising prices in Jakarta in a demonstration organised by the Indonesian Women
shared: Dwikora and Malaysia confrontation, Subandrio, Kuala Lumpur, malaysia confrontation