A Daughter's Memory: 1965 in Animation (Grace Leksana, 2020)
Grace Leksana's review (Archipel 99, 2020) of the animated documentary A Daughter's Memory (2019, dir. Kartika Pratiwi), based on Svetlana Dayani Njoto's memories of detention with her mother and siblings after her father Njoto's arrest. Film review.
Dialita: Collective Memories of Former Women Political Prisoners in Java (Lestariningsih and Sunarti, 2022)
Memory Studies article (2022) on the Dialita choir of former women political prisoners and relatives as a vehicle for identity and 'cultural reconciliation', drawing on interviews with Uchikowati, Utati and others; co-author wrote a book on Plantungan Gerwani prisoners. Key study.
Political subject in Martin Aleida's short story 'Ode untuk Selembar KTP' (Nugroho, 2022)
2022 UGM article reading Martin Aleida's short story 'Ode untuk Selembar KTP' through Ranciere: a woman jailed thirteen years, ending at Plantungan, sells land to bribe an official to remove the 'ET' code from her ID. Literary context on stigma.
The G30S-PKI in modern Indonesian novels by post-Reformasi women authors (Efendi et al., 2023)
2023 UNY article on how three post-Reformasi novels by women authors (Ayu Utami's Manjali dan Cakrabirawa, Leila Chudori's Pulang, Laksmi Pamuntjak's Amba) re-interpret facts of G30S, including Buru detention and 'PKI descendant' stigma. Literary context.
Michal Bielecki's 2025 analysis of 'Selamatan Anak Cucu Sumilah', a participatory performance (30 Nov 2018, UGM) with the Kipper forum of women ex-prisoners, commemorating Maria Goreti Sumilah, arrested at fourteen by mistake and held at Plantungan. Memorialisation through performance.
Traumatic Memory and Family Dynamics of Political Prisoners in Chudori's Namaku Alam (Karim et al., 2025)
2025 article on Leila Chudori's novel Namaku Alam (sequel to Pulang) as literary representation of trauma transmission in families of political prisoners, using Caruth, Hirsch and Halbwachs. Literary context.