TAPOL Bulletin No. 133, February 1996
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.19-20), which presents Charlotte Salawati, Gerwani activist and ex-Makassar mayor, defying Bukit Duri's commander over prison food.
TAPOL Bulletin no. 133 (Februari 1996), buletin hak asasi manusia London tentang Timor Timur, krisis sandera Papua Barat, investasi Inggris, anak jalanan, perpecahan kabinet Suharto, SBSI, sidang Sri-Bintang dan AJI. Gerwani hanya muncul dalam resensi buku Carmel Budiardjo 'Surviving Indonesia's Gulag' (hlm. 19-20), yang menampilkan Charlotte Salawati, aktivis Gerwani dan mantan wali kota Makassar, menentang komandan Bukit Duri soal makanan tahanan.
“p.19: review notes Charlotte Salawati (died 1988), first woman mayor of Makassar, whose work in the PKI's women's organisation, Gerwani, 'marked her out for special treatment at the hands of army interrogators'.”
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: Indonesian National Armed Forces, TAPOL, Suharto, Carmel Budiardjo
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office file FCO 24/1701 (1973), a TNA volume on political detainees in Indonesia. It holds briefing notes, minutes and parliamentary questions on the 1973 State Visit, the Budiardjo case and Amnesty International's campaign, plus a bound copy of Amnesty's 1973 'Indonesia Special'. In that re
shared: Suharto, Carmel Budiardjo, Sumijarsi Siwirini Caropeboka, Plantungan
TAPOL Bulletin no. 16, June 1976, issued before the IGGI meeting. Contents: smuggled letter on prison torture including sexual torture of women (some miscarried), Fraser congressional hearings with Benedict Anderson, Sudomo interview on categories A/B/C and Buru, analysis of Oei Tju Tat's trial, Papuan killings, Amnest
shared: TAPOL, Carmel Budiardjo, Sumijarsi Siwirini Caropeboka, West New Guinea (Papua)
Tempo book review (29 Aug 1999) of Carmel Budiardjo's prison memoir on New Order detention (Likdam, Bukit Duri, 'bon' interrogations, ET stigma). It records her witness to teenage women political prisoners tortured to make the script of Gerwani's involvement in the Lubang Buaya killings work, and notes she founded Tapo
shared: TAPOL, Suharto, Carmel Budiardjo, Bukit Duri Prison
TAPOL Bulletin no. 159 (Aug/Sep 2000), with Carmel Budiardjo's report on a visit to Indonesia (pp. 12-14). She meets some twenty former Bukit Duri prison mates, among them Sri Ambar, frail after a stroke (p. 12); visits the Tangerang home of Ibu Sulami, founder in April 1999 of YPKP, the foundation investigating the 19
shared: Indonesian National Armed Forces, TAPOL, Sri Ambar Rukmiati, Carmel Budiardjo
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: TAPOL, Carmel Budiardjo, West New Guinea (Papua), Plantungan
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: TAPOL, Suharto, Sri Ambar Rukmiati, Carmel Budiardjo
Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on the Plantungan camp (Kendal) for women Group B political prisoners, opened 1971 in a former leprosarium. Names Gerwani activists and others held there: Sumiyarsi Siwirini ('Lubang Buaya doctor'), Siti Suratih, Mia Bustam, Pujiati, C.H. Sumarmiyati, Mujiati. Covers conditions, 'santi aji' in
shared: Carmel Budiardjo, Sumijarsi Siwirini Caropeboka, Plantungan, Bukit Duri Prison