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Tossed Down by the Rising Waves (Sudjinah, prison memoir)

Tossed Down by the Rising Waves (Sudjinah, Prison Memoir)

English typescript prison memoir by Sudjinah, Gerwani translator and journalist (c. 2000): courier in 1945-49, WIDF secretariat in Berlin, Gerwani HQ in 1965, capture in 1967, torture and detention at Bukit Duri and Tangerang. Key Gerwani survivor memoir.

GA-02675 1976 rel A

Politieke Gevangenen op het Eiland Buru (Amnesty International, 1976)

Political Prisoners on Buru Island (Amnesty International, 1976)

Amnesty International Dutch dossier (Oct 1976) on Buru Island: over 10,000 untried prisoners, forced labour, and prisoner lists including a women's list headed by a short Gerwani history naming women held in Bukit Duri and Plantungan.

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TAPOL Bulletin No. 44, March 1981

TAPOL Bulletin no. 44 (London, March 1981): army takeover of the legal sector, Free-Aceh trials, Pramoedya's Buru novels harassed, East Timor, US human rights report. A short item (p.4) reports that eight women political prisoners long held in Bukit Duri were moved to Tangerang women's prison: Sulami (20 years), Sudjin

GA-02725 1996-02 TAPOL rel B

TAPOL Bulletin No. 133, Februari 1996

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-

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TAPOL Bulletin No. 159, August/September 2000

TAPOL Bulletin No. 159, Aug/Sep 2000: Carmel Budiardjo's visit to Indonesia (Sri Ambar, Sulami, YPKP)

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

GA-03665 2007-04 TAPOL Bulletin No. 186 rel A

TAPOL Bulletin No. 186, April 2007

TAPOL Bulletin No. 186, Apr 2007: Sulami's exhumation campaign; review of Kembang-kembang Genjer

TAPOL Bulletin no. 186 (April 2007). A feature (p. 19) notes Sulami's exhumation campaign and that Gerwani, before 1965 'the most active women's organisation', was banned and its members singled out. A review (pp. 21-24) of the book Kembang-kembang Genjer (foreword by Saskia Wieringa) summarises Sumilah, Tami (Njoto's

GA-02729 2017 rel B

Kisah Pelarian Tiga Gerwani dari Penjara Bukit Duri (Merdeka.com, 2012)

The Flight of Three Gerwani Women from Bukit Duri Prison (Merdeka.com, 2012)

Merdeka.com feature (2012; YPKP repost 2017) visiting the demolished Bukit Duri women's prison: neighbours recall a 1975 escape by three alleged Gerwani women, and journalist Sri Sulistyawati describes eleven years held there without trial. Memory of a women's detention site.