TAPOL Bulletin no. 11, August 1975, on the 'show trials' ahead of the tenth anniversary. Key item (p.3): four women, including Gerwani General Secretary Sulami, sentenced after a five-month trial to 15-20 years for subversion (helping the PKPS movement, illegal cells, alleged recruitment of cooks and seamstresses for Lubang Buaya); also an East Kalimantan Gerwani leader given 20 years at Balikpapan. Also Buru deaths, Syahrir trial, Budiardjo's US tour, Amnesty campaigns.
TAPOL Bulletin no. 11, Agustus 1975, tentang 'pengadilan sandiwara' menjelang peringatan sepuluh tahun. Butir utama (hlm. 3): empat perempuan, termasuk Sekretaris Jenderal Gerwani Sulami, divonis 15-20 tahun setelah sidang lima bulan atas tuduhan subversi (membantu gerakan PKPS, sel ilegal, dugaan merekrut juru masak dan penjahit untuk Lubang Buaya); juga seorang pemimpin Gerwani Kalimantan Timur divonis 20 tahun di Balikpapan. Juga kematian tapol Buru, sidang Syahrir, tur AS Budiardjo, kampanye Amnesty.
“p.3: Sulami, 'General Secretary of the now-banned' Gerwani, was among four women sentenced to 15-20 years; accused of helping recruit women 'as cooks and seamstresses to go to Lubang Buaya Training Centre'.”
TAPOL Bulletin no. 8, January 1975. Leads on Papuan mass killings and the Indonesian ban on the word 'tapol'; also Buru unrest and health conditions, the British Foreign Office meeting with religious leaders, non-involvement certificates, 'C' category releases, Hariman Siregar's six-year sentence and Carmel Budiardjo's
shared: Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, Amnesty International, Sulami
TAPOL Bulletin no. 169/170 (Jan/Feb 2003), with Carmel Budiardjo's obituary of Sulami (pp. 13-15). Born Sragen 15 Aug 1926, she joined Gerwis (Gerwani from 1951), became East Java executive member (1954) and second deputy secretary-general (1957), attended WIDF meetings, and was deputy secretary-general in 1965. Arrest
shared: Trial of four Gerwani women, Indonesian Peasants' Front, TAPOL, Sulami
TAPOL Bulletin no. 9 (March 1975) front page 'Women on Trial': photo of Sulami, Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati and Suharti Harsono at their 3 Feb 1975 trial for subversion, with a Lubang Buaya sewing-and-cooking allegation. Early international attention to Gerwani trials.
shared: Trial of four Gerwani women, Indonesian Peasants' Front, TAPOL, Sulami
TAPOL Bulletin no. 37 (London, January 1980): editorial on the end of KOPKAMTIB's release plan, plus Julie Southwood's long study of 1,014 political trials since 1966. It notes the 1965 Lubang Buaya claim that communist women castrated the generals, and the 1975 subversion trial of Gerwani's Sulami and Sudjinah, with S
shared: Indonesian Peasants' Front, Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, Amnesty International
De Waarheid, 25 Apr 1975, article by Joop Morrien on nearly ten years of Suharto's dictatorship. It reports the military tribunal trial of Gerwani and PKI women Sulami, Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati and Suharti Harsono, who went underground after 1965 and were arrested in late 1966; life is demanded for Sulami and 20 ye
shared: Trial of four Gerwani women, Sulami, Suharti Harsono, Ali Said
TAPOL Bulletin no. 44 (London, March 1981): army takeover of the legal sector, Free-Aceh trials, Pramoedya's Buru novels harassed, East Timor, US human rights report. A short item (p.4) reports that eight women political prisoners long held in Bukit Duri were moved to Tangerang women's prison: Sulami (20 years), Sudjin
shared: Indonesian Peasants' Front, Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, Sulami
Daily World (New York), 26 July 1975, p. 9: Foreign Department report that a Jakarta court on 16 June 1975 sentenced four women after a five-month trial: Sulami (general secretary of the Indonesian Women's Movement, 20 years), Sudjinah (magazine editor, 18), Sri Ambar (SOBSI women's section, 15) and Suharti Alimarkaban
shared: Trial of four Gerwani women, Indonesian Peasants' Front, Sulami, Suharti Harsono
TAPOL Bulletin no. 25, December 1977 (London). Focuses on the 20 December releases from Buru and Tanjung Kasau, new 'resettlement' labour camps, the Amnesty report and Sudomo interview, the Sawito trial, student protests, and press reports (Newsweek, Economist, Age, Asahi, De Telegraf, FEER) on Buru. Page 11 rebuts Jen
shared: Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, Amnesty International, Carmel Budiardjo