1. Dyuta Parva: When Karna claims that sons and wives are slaves can earn nothing of their own accord and are dependent. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m02/m02070.htm
2. Vana Parva: When karna tells Suryadev that his wives are not as dear to him as Suryadev is. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/m03300.htm
3. Udyoga Parva: When Karna rejects the offers of krishna saying that all his family rights have been done with the sutas. He had an arranged marriage not a love marriage. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m05/m05141.htm
4. Bhishma Parva: When karna meets Bhishma on his death bed he talks to him and tells him about how his wives are not as important to him as Duryodhana is. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m06/m06124.htm
5. Karna Parva: When Karna sells his wives to the foot soldiers of the Pandavas army to locate the whereabouts of Arjuna. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m08/m08038.htm
6. Karna Parva: When Arjuna claims that he can no longer restrain himself, or hold back and how he feels sorry for the wives of karna as they will become widows now. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m08/m08087.htm
7. Stri Parva: When karna’s corpse is mutilated and eaten up by animals, beasts & vultures then his wives talk about how Arjuna is cruel. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m11/m11020.htm
Vaisampayana and Vyasa's reasons for not telling the names of these two wives of Karna (he only had two) are simple they were irrelevant and not important to the story:
"In that great battle of the Kurus came hundreds of thousands of monarchs for fighting against one another. The names of the innumerable host I am unable to recount even in ten thousand years. I have named, however, the principal ones who have been mentioned in this history.'"
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m01/m01064.htm
The texts of Indonesia were traded with India before the time of the british unlike Kmg Mahabharat. The Indonesian Mahabharat says that Arjuna was the secret lover of Karna's wife. Karna had only one wife, she was a daughter of king Shalya her name was Surtikanti:
"Dewi Surtikanti, marries with Karna. They have two children: Warsakusuma and Warsasena. Surtikanti’s love to Arjuna is turned down. She marries Karna, the half brother of Arjuna, because Karna looks like Arjuna." https://www.boloji.com/articles/8527/variations-in-indonesian-mahabharata-2
While it's true that the one in Indonesia are older than KMG, we also have "carangan", which is like a fanfic side-story, non-canon, and each "dalang" could add their twist. So, by itself, it's pretty hard to distinguish which were their carangan and which were the original brought by the traders from India.
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