Bekas pengerusi GERWANI dipenjara (Former Gerwani chair jailed)

Bekas pengerusi GERWANI dipenjara AKARTA, Isnin. Sebuah mahkamah di Tebing Tinggi, di Sumatra Utara, telah menjatuhkan hukuman penjara seumur hidup ke atas seorang Wamita, bekas pemimpin Gerakan Rakyat Wanita Indonesia. Puan Amnah, didapati bersalah terlibat dalam percubaan merampas kuasa oleh Parti Komunis Indonesia yang gagal pada 1965 dulu, demikian menurut lapuran Radio Jakarta hari ini. Puan Amnah ialah bekas pengerusi GERWANI, sebuah pertubuhan wanita yang dikatakan menjadi badan gabungan kepada PKI. Mahkamah itu juga menjatuhkan hukuman penjara selama 20 tahun ke atas Maryo, bekas ngerusi Badan Tani nesia, atas tuduhan yang sama BT juga dianggap sebagai pertubuhan yang dipengaruhi PKI. AP.

=== [Page 1] === Former GERWANI chair jailed JAKARTA, Monday. – A court in Tebing Tinggi, in North Sumatra, has sentenced a woman, a former leader of the Indonesian People's Women's Movement [Gerakan Rakyat Wanita Indonesia, i.e. Gerwani], to life imprisonment. Mrs Amnah was found guilty of involvement in the failed attempt to seize power by the Indonesian Communist Party in 1965, according to a Radio Jakarta report today. Mrs Amnah is a former chair of GERWANI, a women's organisation said to have been an affiliated body of the PKI. The court also sentenced Maryo, former chair of the Indonesian Peasants' Front [Barisan Tani Indonesia], to 20 years' imprisonment on the same charge. The BTI is also regarded as an organisation influenced by the PKI. – AP.