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GA-02684 2011 rel A

Ini Kisah Ketua Gerwani Kabupaten Blitar (Okezone, 2011)

This Is the Story of the Gerwani Chair of Blitar Regency (Okezone, 2011)

Okezone feature (1 Oct 2011) on Putmainah, then 83, former Gerwani chair for Blitar Regency and PKI legislator, covering her Islamic and leftist family background, Pesindo past, flight after the 1965 coup and later life. Biographical testimony of a regional Gerwani leader.

GA-02676 2015 rel B

Korban Perempuan yang Selamat Bicara Soal Pembunuhan Massal 1965 di Indonesia

Women Survivors Speak of the 1965 Mass Killings in Indonesia (Global Voices, 2015)

Global Voices feature (30 Oct 2015; Indonesian repost 2016) on AJAR's project interviewing 26 women survivors, with photos and testimony of Vena Taka, Kadmiyati, Frangkina Boboy and Migelina Markus. Women survivors' testimony and demands for justice.

GA-02982 2015 rel B licensed

Genjer-genjer, Lagu yang Ditakuti Sejarah (Tempo, Ika Ningtyas, 2015)

Genjer-genjer, the song feared by history (Tempo, Ika Ningtyas, 2015)

Tempo feature (8 June 2015; IPT 1965 repost) on 'Genjermania', a Berlin live-music project by Tomi Simatupang raising funds for the son of Genjer-genjer composer Muhammad Arief, killed after 1965; traces the song's Japanese-occupation origin and its 1965 stigma.

GA-02687 2016 rel B

Setengah Abad G30S, Penyintas Napak Tilas ke Kamp Pengasingan Plantungan (KBR, 2016)

Half a Century After G30S, Survivors Retrace Steps to Plantungan Camp (KBR, 2016)

KBR report (23 Dec 2016) on former women prisoners and a Komnas Perempuan team visiting the Plantungan camp site: testimonies of Sumilah (forced to admit Gerwani membership, stripped) and Debora Oni, and the Lubang Buaya slander. Memorialisation of Plantungan.

GA-02694 2016 rel A

Kisah Suti, Nenek 96 Tahun, Aktivis Gerwani Penyintas Tragedi 1965 (Rappler, 2016)

The Story of Suti, 96-Year-Old Gerwani Activist and 1965 Survivor (Rappler, 2016)

Rappler first-person account (2 Feb 2016) of Suti (Arjo Sutiyem), 96: born 1920 in Musuk, third wife in an arranged marriage, joined Gerwis in 1951, chaired Musuk and Boyolali Gerwani, then persecuted in 1965. Fullest of three texts on her.

GA-03022 2016 rel A

Gerwani dan Kepeloporan Perjuangan Politik Perempuan (Sundari, Jurnal Perempuan, 2016)

Gerwani and the pioneering of women's political struggle (Sundari, 2016)

Akhiriyati Sundari's 2016 Jurnal Perempuan review of the Indonesian translation of Wieringa's Sexual Politics in Indonesia (Penghancuran Gerakan Perempuan, 2010), recounting the Lubang Buaya slander as staged in the film and Gerwani's pioneering role. Book review.

GA-03023 2016 rel A

Gerwani, Pelopor Gerakan Perempuan Feminis-Sosialis di Indonesia (Sundari, Jurnal Perempuan, 2016)

Gerwani, pioneer of the socialist-feminist women's movement in Indonesia (Sundari, 2016)

Akhiriyati Sundari's second 2016 Jurnal Perempuan essay placing Gerwani in a typology of feminist theory as the most progressive socialist-feminist movement, strongest between its first and second congresses; marks 1965 and the IPT. Interpretive essay.

GA-03012 2017 rel B

Kekerasan Seksual terhadap Perempuan Pasca Peristiwa 1965 (Historia, 2017)

Sexual violence against women after the 1965 events (Historia, 2017)

Historia report (17 Mar 2017) on a Komnas Perempuan/YLBHI/IPT 65 session on sexual violence after 1965, opening with Bedjo Untung's case of Zaenab, a 12-year-old in Pekalongan stripped and repeatedly raped by soldiers. Testimony on sexual violence.