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GA-02911 2007 rel A

Challenges of Political Rehabilitation: The Case of Gerwani (McGregor and Hearman, 2007)

Challenges of Political Rehabilitation: the case of Gerwani (McGregor and Hearman, 2007)

McGregor and Hearman's 2007 article reading Sulami's and Sudjinah's memoirs as political rehabilitation: both arrested 1967, tried 1975 for subversion; they distance Gerwani from the PKI and answer the sexual slander. Second copy of the paper (South East Asia Research).

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Under Duress: Suppressing and Recovering Memories of the Indonesian Sixties (Hearman, 2013)

Vannessa Hearman's 2013 article on memories 'under duress', from interviews with over thirty ex-prisoners: screening and stigma forced concealment, name changes and silence; Gerwani appears via 'Leila' and 'Tuti' and Sukarno-era WIDF internationalism. Oral history methodology.

GA-02898 2020 rel B licensed

From Indonesia with Love: Friendships between Political Prisoners and their Pen Pals (Hearman, 2020)

From Indonesia with Love: Political Prisoners and their Pen Pals (Hearman, 2020)

Hearman's 2020 article reconstructing the 1982-92 letters between ex-Gerwani militant Pudji Aswati, imprisoned for subversion, and English Quaker author Patricia Cleveland-Peck, showing how befriending became a transnational activist network. Rare transnational Gerwani prisoner correspondence.