First woman to be tried over the 1965 coup: 'Gestapo' woman (Berita Harian, 1973)
Berita Harian, 9 May 1973, p. 3, Reuters: a court spokesman says Mrs Sumali, a Gerwani leader, will be the first woman tried over the 1965 coup, charged with torturing an army general with a razor blade; she was arrested with other Gerwani members at Lubang Buaya on 1 October 1965 after six generals' bodies were found. Repeats the razor-blade slander as fact. Also a West Kalimantan commander's warning.
Berita Harian, 9 Mei 1973, hlm. 3, Reuters: juru bicara pengadilan menyatakan Ibu Sumali, pemimpin Gerwani, akan menjadi perempuan pertama yang diadili atas kudeta 1965, didakwa menyiksa seorang jenderal dengan silet; ia ditangkap bersama anggota Gerwani lain di Lubang Buaya pada 1 Oktober 1965 setelah jenazah enam jenderal ditemukan. Mengulang fitnah silet sebagai fakta. Juga peringatan panglima Kalimantan Barat.
“p.3: 'Mrs Sumali, a leader of Gerwani... will face charges of torturing an Indonesian army general with a razor blade' (English translation).”
Berita Harian, 9 May 1973 (Reuters, lead only). A court spokesman said the first woman to be tried over the 1965 coup attempt would soon appear in a local court: Sumali, described as a leader of Gerwani, the PKI women's wing.
shared: Sumali, trials (Mahmillub)
Tribune (Sydney), 20 May 1975, p. 7, abridged from the British magazine TAPOL (Mar 1975): thousands of women remain among about 100,000 political prisoners. Describes Gerwani's work, its banning, the sexual slander ('sex-maniacs', mutilation claims) as fuelling the massacres, torture and rape of women tapols, Plantunga
shared: Indonesian Army, torture, Lubang Buaya and sexual slander, trials (Mahmillub)
Tribune (Sydney), 20 May 1975, p. 7, abridged from the British magazine TAPOL (Mar 1975): thousands of women remain among about 100,000 political prisoners. Describes Gerwani's work, its banning, the sexual slander ('sex-maniacs', mutilation claims) as fuelling the massacres, torture and rape of women tapols, Plantunga
shared: Indonesian Army, torture, Lubang Buaya and sexual slander, trials (Mahmillub)
Tribune (Sydney), 21 Jan 1970, p. 8: extract from Hong Kong's Eastern Horizon of letters by an Indonesian writing as 'Barbro Karabuda' on the 1965-66 massacre and prisoners (official 86,000 detainees; torture; Army extortion). The writer finds Tanti Aidit in Bukit Duri women's prison in Jakarta with Aidit's mother-in-l
shared: Indonesian Army, torture
Tribune (Sydney), 21 Jan 1970, p. 8: extract from Hong Kong's Eastern Horizon of letters by an Indonesian writing as 'Barbro Karabuda' on the 1965-66 massacre and prisoners (official 86,000 detainees; torture; Army extortion). The writer finds Tanti Aidit in Bukit Duri women's prison in Jakarta with Aidit's mother-in-l
shared: Indonesian Army, torture
Tharunka (UNSW student paper), 30 July 1975, p. 8, article 'Indonesian Women' on women political prisoners after 1965. It describes Gerwani as the largest left women's organisation, targeted by a press campaign depicting members as sex-maniacs and Lubang Buaya participants, and banned in October 1965. It reports at lea
shared: Lubang Buaya, West Kalimantan, Lubang Buaya and sexual slander, trials (Mahmillub)
Tharunka (UNSW student paper), 30 July 1975, p. 8, clean OCR of the article 'Indonesian Women: The Banned Women's Organisation' (same article as GA-00274). It presents Gerwani as unaffiliated with the PKI, then attacked in 1965 by press stories of 'Gerwani prostitutes', 'obscene sex-dancing' and genital mutilation of g
shared: Lubang Buaya, West Kalimantan, Lubang Buaya and sexual slander, trials (Mahmillub)
Berita Yudha, 8 Nov 1994, p. 4: White Book section on Lubang Buaya where 'sukwan PKI, among them sukwati Gerwani' wait by the well and the captives are tortured to death; no sexual or dance motif included.
shared: Lubang Buaya, torture, Lubang Buaya and sexual slander