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Situasi politik Indonesia, mingguan, September 1960 (Indonesia political affairs: weekly situation reports)

Weekly Situation Reports on Indonesian Politics, September 1960

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Compilation of Djakarta embassy weekly situation telegrams to the State Department, September 1960, on the army-Sukarno struggle over the PKI ban and a temporary ban on party activity. Gerwani is mentioned only in passing among PKI front organisations (with SOBSI, BTI) protesting bans.

Kumpulan telegram mingguan Kedubes AS Jakarta, September 1960, tentang tarik-ulur Angkatan Darat dan Sukarno soal pelarangan PKI dan larangan sementara kegiatan partai. Gerwani hanya disebut sepintas sebagai salah satu organisasi front PKI (bersama SOBSI, BTI) yang memprotes pelarangan.

“Telegram 809, 16 Sep 1960 (p.10): PKI front organisations incl. Gerwani, SOBSI, BTI protest regional bans, claiming they are independent, non-partisan organisations.”

People

SukarnoDjuanda KartawidjajaSubandrio

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of IndonesiaAll-Indonesia Central Labour OrganisationIndonesian Peasants' FrontPeople's YouthIndonesian Army

Places

JakartaIndonesia

Topics

PKIGerwani organisationpropaganda and media

Tags

anti-communist warning

Details

Date
1960-09
Creator
US State Department Central Files
Publication
Document type
government record (government / intelligence / diplomatic record)
Language
English
Perspective
Intelligence/diplomatic record
Source role
primary
Country
USA
Period
1960–1965
Source archive
ProQuest History Vault (Columbia) · source link
Access
library-licensed (Columbia University Libraries); personal research copy Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records/US State Department and White House files (1948-1965) - Indonesia files (ProQuest History Vault)/US State Department Central Files (1960-09) - Indonesia political affairs weekly political economic and military situation [ProQuest 3041682499].pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.906) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records › US State Department and White House files (1948-1965) - Indonesia files (ProQuest History Vault)
Summary basis
full text scanned (page-by-page headings and all keyword passages); not read line by line

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