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 Jenkins' claim that women at Bulu Prison, Semarang were rejected by families: they were moved from Plantungan and denied visits. It also reports an arisan group of detainees' wives in Yogyakarta labelled a PKI 'formless organisation'.
TAPOL Bulletin no. 25, Desember 1977 (London). Membahas pembebasan 20 Desember dari Buru dan Tanjung Kasau, kamp kerja 'pemukiman kembali' baru, laporan Amnesty dan wawancara Sudomo, sidang Sawito, protes mahasiswa, serta liputan pers tentang Buru. Halaman 11 membantah klaim Jenkins bahwa tapol perempuan di Penjara Bulu, Semarang ditolak keluarga: mereka dipindah dari Plantungan dan dilarang dikunjungi. Juga dilaporkan arisan istri tahanan PKI di Yogyakarta yang dicap 'organisasi tanpa bentuk'.
“p.11: 'The women tapols now being held at Bulu Prison consist of tapols who were transferred there last December from Plantungan Labour Camp. Far from having been rejected by their families, they have been denied permission to receive family visits.'”
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: Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, Amnesty International, Golkar
TAPOL Bulletin no. 28 (London, June 1978): arms sales and Mondale's visit, 1978 student crackdown (Yogyakarta), W.S. Rendra's arrest, conditions of the 1977 releases, psychotests of detainees, the Latief trial. A letter from an East Java ex-prisoner describes the 'bon' killings of 1966–69 and a Malang women's prison ho
shared: Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, International Committee of the Red Cross, State Intelligence Coordinating Agency
TAPOL Bulletin no. 19, January 1977. Leads on 'release equals transmigration': Sudomo's 1 Dec 1976 release of 2,500 B-category tapols into 'transmigration centres' and Buru. Reports that women tapols at Plantungan (since 1971) were moved to Bulu prison, Semarang, apparently for transfer to a 'hard-core' women's camp at
shared: Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, Amnesty International, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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, Sudomo
TAPOL Bulletin no. 29 (London, August 1978): assessment of the 1977–78 prisoner releases, resettlement camps, ILO criticism, Wertheim on Suharto and the Latief trial, ex-tapol discrimination, and trials. Page 11 reports that Dr Tanti Aidit, widow of D.N. Aidit and a Gerwani member who ran a Gerwani clinic, is to be tri
shared: Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, Amnesty International, Sudomo
TAPOL Bulletin no. 20, February 1977. Leads on East Timor massacres and torture; also a Jakarta detention-centre riot, US and Dutch aid, a Sulawesi tapol interview, 'double counting' of releases and non-involvement certificates. Item 'Plantungan to Close?' (p.4) reports about 100 women tapols moved to Bulu Prison, Sema
shared: Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, Amnesty International, International Committee of the Red Cross
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: Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, Amnesty International, Subandrio
TAPOL Bulletin no. 47 (London, September 1981): East Timor offensive and the East Timor assembly's report, West Papuan refugees, Pramoedya's re-arrest, the new Procedural Code, and rape and lesbianism cases. Its new 'Spotlight on a Prisoner' profiles Suwardiningsih, the only woman full member of the PKI Central Committ
shared: Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order, TAPOL, Amnesty International, Pramoedya Ananta Toer