Bali Post, 13 Mar 2000, p. 11: Wimar Witoelar interview with ex-CGMI leader Hardoyo, stating that the autopsy showed Gerwani did not mutilate the generals, a story that had inflamed mass killings.
Bali Post, 7 Apr 2000, p. 7: editorial on Wahid's proposal to revoke the 1966 PKI ban, saying the military's stories of sadism by Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat made the killings 'barbarity' in public memory and enabled mass slaughter.
Bali Post, 23 Apr 2000, p. 3: interview with Balinese educator and DPRGR member Ida Ayu Sutiti Wirati Diwangkara, who says she represented 'women' in the DPRGR where women's associations like Gerwani were represented; rich on women's education.
Bali Post, 28 Apr 2000, p. 19: YPKP 65 (Sulami) and Solidaritas Nusa Bangsa press Komnas HAM to investigate post-G30S massacres; Sulami denies slashing the generals and demands her family's name be cleared.
Bali Post, 12 May 2000, p. 10 and 'Aspirasi': victim of the 27 July 1996 PDI attack says police forced her to strip because officers were convinced she was a 'former Gerwani'; Gerwani as an accusation against women.
Sulami's 33-page booklet (Cipta Lestari, March 2001) retelling Kartini's life as a socialist, anti-colonial genealogy for women, then tracing women's organisations and the 1965 destruction of Gerwani. A former Gerwani leader's historical-political reflection.
Bali Post, 16 Feb 2001, p. 14: a radio caller opposes stamping sex workers by recalling that in the G30S period 'Gerwani women were stamped' though innocent.
Waspada (Medan), 2 June 2001, p. 4: essay on abuses on North Sumatran plantations, observing that after 1965 estate women were 'ceaselessly shadowed by the stigma of Gerwani'.
December 2002 LPKP-65 memorial booklet for Sulami (1926-2002), former Gerwani leader and YPKP 1965/66 chair, with her biography (arrested 1967, 20-year sentence, released 1984) and documents on exhumations, letters to Komnas HAM and forensic work.
2002 Seri Kartini booklet bundling W.F. Wertheim's review of Saskia Wieringa's Gerwani dissertation (Gerwani's puritan sexual politics, army fabrication of Lubang Buaya), a DPP Gerwani statement of 4 June 1962, Sulami's preface and poem, and a memoir of 1945. Survivors' reissue of key Gerwani texts.
Bali Post, 11 Aug 2002, p. 10: short story 'Ngaben' about a PKI activist's family fleeing the 1965–66 Bali killings; the father knew of the plans 'from the stories of the Gerwani women'.
Waspada, 7 Oct 2002, p. 11: feature on the 1 Oct 2002 commemoration at the Sudjono monument in Bandarbetsy, retelling the 1965 killing of Peltu Sudjono by BTI squatters joined by Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and Lekra who 'sang and danced'.
Analisa (Medan), 19 Aug 2003, p. 2: death-row shaman Ahmad Suradji says the place he showed where bodies were found is the 'place of slaughter of Gerwani'; an incidental, erased-history reference.
Sulami's reflective essay (written 1992, posted 9 Nov 2006) on why revolutionary women founded Gerwis on 4 June 1950, its rejection of 'man-hating feminism', its actions such as Tanjung Morawa and International Women's Day. First-person account by a Gerwani secretary-general.
Ratna Mustika Sari's 2007 book from her 2005 UGM thesis on the stigmatisation of Gerwani as a New Order power strategy, inspired by Wieringa and her Syarikat research on women victims in Kulonprogo and Sleman. Early Indonesian-language academic study of the stigma.
IndoPROGRESS in memoriam (11 Sep 2007) for Sudjinah (1929-2007), Gerwani leader, WIDF secretariat worker and political prisoner, based on a 2000 interview: court-official family, anti-Japanese courier work, and later life. Obituary profile.
2009 Sanata Dharma history thesis by Elisabeth Retnoningrum on Gerwani's orientation, the New Order's spreading of a bad image of Gerwani, and later women's movement development; concludes the sexual mutilation story was untrue and legitimised the regime.
Free-verse poem 'Aku Seorang Gerwani' by Omie Lubis (IndoPROGRESS, 5 May 2009): a Gerwani woman's monologue to her child born of rape, describing forced nakedness and forced 'painting of history', ending as a testament to truth and justice. Literary representation.
Official Army history (Pusjarah TNI, Jakarta 2009), vol. IV of 'Komunisme di Indonesia', presenting Gerwani as a PKI mass organisation in the 1960-65 build-up and the G30S. It reports Gerwani's Nov-Dec 1964 housewives' seminar (p. 70), 'unilateral actions' (p. 122), the 27 Sept 1965 Surabaya governor's-office raid unde
Official Army history (Pusjarah TNI, Jakarta 2009), vol. IV of 'Komunisme di Indonesia', presenting Gerwani as a PKI mass organisation in the 1960-65 build-up and the G30S. It reports Gerwani's Nov-Dec 1964 housewives' seminar (p. 70), 'unilateral actions' (p. 122), the 27 Sept 1965 Surabaya governor's-office raid unde