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GA-02908 2020 rel B

1965, L'Heure de l'histoire (Margolin, Archipel 99, 2020)

1965, the hour of history (Margolin, Archipel, 2020)

Jean-Louis Margolin's 47-page review essay (Archipel 99, 2020, in French) on the 'new historiography' of 1965 through eight books, summarising findings on army-militia cooperation, NU/Ansor, sexual violence and prisons, and critiquing Melvin and Robinson.

GA-03706 2022 Brill (Social Sciences in Asia, vol. 41) rel A

Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History

Detention Camps in Asia (Brill, 2022): 'Torture Camps in Indonesia, 1965-1970' (Pohlman), opening with Sudjinah's memoir

Brill edited volume (2022) on detention camps in modern Asia; the chapter 'Torture Camps in Indonesia, 1965-1970' (Annie Pohlman, pp. 137-155) opens with Sudjinah's memoir Terempas Gelombang Pasang. It names Sudjinah and Sulami as fellow leaders of Gerwani who, after eighteen months underground and a clandestine pamphl

GA-03707 2022 Brill (Social Sciences in Asia, vol. 41) rel A

Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History

Detention Camps in Asia (Brill, 2022): 'Torture Camps in Indonesia, 1965-1970' (Pohlman), opening with Sudjinah's memoir

Brill edited volume (2022) on detention camps in modern Asia; the chapter 'Torture Camps in Indonesia, 1965-1970' (Annie Pohlman, pp. 137-155) opens with Sudjinah's memoir Terempas Gelombang Pasang. It names Sudjinah and Sulami as fellow leaders of Gerwani who, after eighteen months underground and a clandestine pamphl

GA-02899 2025 rel C

I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: A Life Experience of a Former 1965-1966 Political Prisoner in Indonesia (Hidayat, 2025)

I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: life of a former 1965-66 political prisoner (Hidayat, 2025)

2025 single-case phenomenological study of an 86-year-old male former political prisoner (interviews via KontraS, 2024): union worker, arrest in 1966, torture, forced labour at Tangerang, Nusakambangan and Buru, later Aksi Kamisan activism. Male testimony; context only.

GA-02904 2025 rel B

Marriages between Political Prisoners' Wives and Army Officers: Victimization of Women (Kochi Kaoru, 2025)

Marriages between political prisoners' wives and army officers (Kochi Kaoru, 2025)

Kochi Kaoru's 2025 article using second-hand-market documents to show that wives and widows of leftist men, including former Gerwani members, married or became concubines of officers and soldiers, and the army banned the practice; also covers 'bersih diri' certificates and disenfranchisement.