Wanita hamil belasan tahun mengaku (Lubang Buaya): PKI women members tell the story of the cruel killing

Berita Minggu, Ahad, 7 November 1965 (14 Rejab 1385) [Unreadable] wanita PKI ceritakan kisah pembunuhan kejam SEORANG wanita hamil berumur belasan tahun telah mengaku dalam akhbar Angkatan Bersenjata bahawa ia telah bersama-sama menetak dan mencincang seorang panglima Tentera Indonesia yang diikat dan ditutup matanya dalam masa percubaan merampas kuasa yang gagal pada 1 Oktober itu. Jamilah, berumur 15 tahun, yang dilahirkan pada tahun pertama kemerdekaan Indonesia, dijadualkan melahirkan anak sulungnya sendiri dalam penjara pada bulan Mei depan. Kisah disiplin Ceritanya kepada pihak yang berkuasa yang telah menangkapnya ialah semata-mata kisah disiplin latihan tentera, menyimpan rahsia dan menyeksa pegawai-pegawai yang diculik dan disembelih dalam komplotan Komunis menentang pihak yang berkuasa Tentera Indonesia. Jamilah bersama suaminya, seorang buruh yang bekerja di sebuah bengkel kereta dalam [Unreadable] Jakarta, kedua-duanya menjadi anggota Pemuda Rakyat Komunis. Suami Jamilah juga menjadi pengerusi Kesatuan Pekerja-pekerja Pelabuhan Tempatan yang bergabung dengan Sobsi, Persekutuan Buruh Komunis. Pada hari Selasa 28 September, tiga hari sebelum percubaan merampas kuasa, ejen-ejen Komunis tempatan telah memerintah mereka pergi ke [Unreadable], di pangkalan Angkatan Udara Halim di luar Jakarta, untuk latihan tentera. Jamilah berkata mula-mula ia tidak mahu tetapi akhirnya bersetuju. Esoknya Jamilah bersama suaminya telah menyertai 40 orang lagi, kesemuanya lelaki, di pejabat Komunis tempatan. Mereka diberitahu bahawa mereka akan menjalani latihan pertahanan awam lalu menaiki sebuah bas menuju bahagian yang sunyi di pangkalan Angkatan Udara Halim. Di sana mereka dibahagi-bahagikan kepada pasukan-pasukan dan mulai menjalani latihan tentera di bawah pegawai-pegawai dari Madiun, kubu pemberontakan Komunis 17 tahun dahulu dalam tahun 1948. Menurut Jamilah, mereka berlatih sehingga petang, dan pada malam hari dikawal oleh Pemuda Rakyat. Pagi-pagi esok mereka diberitahu bahawa [Unreadable] untuk satu serangan terhadap golongan-golongan neokolonialisme dan kapitalis. Suasana hari itu tegang siang dan malam. Pengawal-pengawal Pemuda Rakyat yang bersenjata senantiasa meronda bergilir-gilir. Keluar berbaris "Kira-kira pada pukul 3 malam, kami semua diperintah supaya mandi dan keluar berbaris," kata Jamilah. "Kemudian kami diberitahu supaya membinasakan neokolonialis dan kapitalis-kapitalis tetapi kami tidak diterangkan siapakah yang dimaksudkannya." Pada pukul 5 subuh kira-kira 500 orang telah berhimpun, termasuk kira-kira 100 orang dari Gerwani, badan wanita Komunis. Pisau-pisau telah diberikan kepada wanita-wanita itu, kata Jamilah. Pada masa itu ia melihat di hadapan mereka seorang lelaki pendek dan gemuk memakai baju batik panjang, tangannya terikat dan matanya ditutup dengan kain merah. Ketua pasukan telah memerintahkan mereka memukul orang itu dan menetak bahagian-bahagian kemaluannya, kata Jamilah. Ketua-ketua Gerwani bahagian pelabuhan ialah yang mula-mula menyerang, diikuti oleh yang lain menikam dan menetak. Jamilah tidak ke[Unreadable]unggalan berbuat begitu manakala ramai [Unreadable] menetak orang yang tidak berdaya itu. Mangsa yang berlumuran darah itu kemudiannya diheret oleh empat orang yang memakai uniform hijau dan lencana-lencana pasukan khas Angkatan Udara. [Unreadable] mereka membawanya ke sebuah perigi yang berdekatan situ dan menembaknya tiga kali [Unreadable] membunuhnya. Kemudian wanita-wanita [Unreadable] diperintah sekali lagi [Unreadable] menikam dan menetak [Unreadable] orang itu pada bahagian [Unreadable] kemaluannya sedang [Unreadable] terlentang berlumuran darah dan mati. "Bila saya bertanya [Unreadable] kawan-kawan saya siapakah itu, salah seorang [Unreadable] mulut saya [Unreadable] pun tidak bertanya," kata Jamilah. "Selepas itu mayat [Unreadable] pun dibuangkan ke dalam [Unreadable] perigi. Dengan rasa [Unreadable] dan [Unreadable] kami [Unreadable] ke bahagian [Unreadable] rumah itu dan di[Unreadable] mendengar dari [Unreadable] bahawa kami telah membunuh seorang panglima [Unreadable]" -- UPI. [fragment from adjacent column:] Kerajaan bersimpati [dengan] perjuangan wartawan-wartawan. [Unreadable] sentiasa ditegaskan, katanya. Tun Razak, pada permulaan ucapannya memuji Kesatuan Kebangsaan Wartawan kerana menumpukan tenaga untuk menanam semangat kebangsaan itu di kalangan rakyat selain daripada "berjuang mendapatkan gaji dan keadaan bekerja [Unreadable] satuan ini juga berusaha mendapatkan gaji dan taraf hidup yang lebih baik. Kami juga bersimpati manakala mereka membuat tuntutan-tuntutan yang berpatutan." Setiausaha kesatuan, Tuan N.T.R. Singam, dalam ucapannya menyatakan akan kejayaan Malaysia yang demokrat[Unreadable]. [fragment from adjacent column:] KLAN KECIL. JAWATAN KOSONG. PERMOHONAN [Unreadable] dari Guru D.T.C. untuk menjadi Guru di Sekolah [Unreadable] Kebangsaan Solok Menang, Alor Gajah, Melaka. Permohonan hendaklah dialamatkan kepada Setiausaha Sekolah tersebut sebelum 20 [Unreadable]. KAYU TAS [Unreadable] SAMBUTAN HANG [Unreadable] BESAR HIKMAT. [Unreadable] siapa gunakan Kayu [Unreadable] tak perlu bimbang binatang-binatang buas. Sudah [Unreadable] kenal di hutan? [Unreadable].

=== [Page 1] === [Berita Minggu, Sunday, 7 November 1965] PKI women members tell the story of the cruel killing JAKARTA, Saturday. – A PREGNANT teenage woman has confessed in the newspaper Angkatan Bersenjata that she, together with others, hacked and slashed an Indonesian Army general who was tied up and blindfolded during the failed attempt to seize power on 1 October. Jamilah, aged 15, who was born in the first year of Indonesian independence, is due to give birth to her own first child in prison next May. A story of discipline Her story to the authorities who arrested her is purely one of military-training discipline, keeping secrets and torturing the officers who were kidnapped and slaughtered in the Communist plot against the Indonesian Army authorities. Jamilah and her husband, a labourer working in a car workshop in the Jakarta harbour area, were both members of the Communist Pemuda Rakyat. Jamilah's husband was also chairman of the local Harbour Workers' Union affiliated with Sobsi, the Communist labour federation. On Tuesday 28 September, three days before the attempted seizure of power, local Communist agents ordered them to go to Cililitan, at the Halim Air Force base outside Jakarta, for military training. Jamilah said at first she did not want to, but finally agreed. The next day Jamilah and her husband joined 40 others, all men, at the local Communist office. They were told they would undergo civil defence training and boarded a bus heading for a quiet part of the Halim Air Force base. There they were divided into units and began military training under officers from Madiun, the stronghold of the Communist rebellion 17 years earlier in 1948. According to Jamilah, they trained until evening, and at night were guarded by Pemuda Rakyat. The next morning they were told that [the day had] come for an attack against neocolonialist and capitalist groups. The atmosphere that day was tense day and night. Armed Pemuda Rakyat guards constantly patrolled in turns. Lining up "At about 3 a.m. we were all ordered to bathe and line up outside," said Jamilah. "Then we were told to destroy the neocolonialists and capitalists, but we were not told who was meant." At 5 a.m. about 500 people had gathered, including about 100 from Gerwani, the Communist women's body. Knives were given to the women, said Jamilah. At that time she saw in front of them a short, fat man wearing a long batik shirt, his hands tied and his eyes covered with a red cloth. The unit leader ordered them to beat the man and hack at his genitals, said Jamilah. The Gerwani leaders of the harbour section were the first to attack, followed by the others stabbing and hacking. Jamilah [did not want to be left behind in] doing so while many [were hacking at] the helpless man. The blood-soaked victim was then dragged by four men wearing green uniforms and special Air Force unit badges. They took him to a well nearby and shot him three times to kill him. Then the women were ordered once again to stab and hack the man's genitals as he lay covered in blood and dead. "When I asked my friends who the man was, one of them [covered] my mouth [and told me] not to ask," said Jamilah. "After that the body was thrown into the well. With [fear] and [exhaustion] we [went] to the front part of [the area] and there [heard from others] that we had killed an army general." – UPI. [Other article: Government sympathises with the journalists' struggle (Tun Razak, National Union of Journalists) – not translated] [Classified advertisements – not translated] [Note: the right-hand column is partly cut off in the scan; bracketed words are reconstructed only where the sense is clear.]