AJAR and partner submission to UN Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez (Oct 2016) arguing 1965 detainees' right to rehabilitation for torture remains denied, citing Law 26/2000 and stalled Komnas HAM findings; partners include women survivors' groups.
Web edition of the final report of the seven judges of the International People's Tribunal 1965 (The Hague, Nov 2015; report 20 July 2016): finds Indonesia responsible for crimes against humanity, including sexual violence and hate propaganda, and the US, UK and Australia complicit.
Final Report of the IPT 1965 judges (20 July 2016, The Hague/Jakarta): origins after The Act of Killing, Saskia Wieringa and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana's roles, and legal reasoning on killing, detention, torture, sexual violence and propaganda. Key text on international legal findings.
Jurnal Perempuan feature (Jan 2016) on a Jejer Wadon visit to Suti (Arjo Sutiyem), 96, in Musuk, Boyolali: her reasons for joining the women's movement, early life, chairing Gerwis Boyolali with 4,000 members from 1952. Adds biographical detail to the 2014 profile.
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.
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.
Audio track (5:43) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Frau. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).
Audio track (2:44) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Cholil Mahmud. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).
Audio track (5:48) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Sisir Tanah, Frau and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).
Audio track (2:28) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Sisir Tanah. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).
Audio track (6:04) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Kroncongan Agawe Santoso. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083). The title ref
Audio track (2:28) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Sisir Tanah. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083). The title refers to GANEFO
Audio track (3:37) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Cholil Mahmud. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).
Audio track (4:35) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Frau and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).
Audio track (2:12) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Cholil Mahmud and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).
Audio track (3:55) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Nadya Hatta, Prihatmoko Catur and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wav
Album cover image for Dialita's 2016 'Dunia Milik Kita' (Yes No Wave YESNO083): the title in green script surrounded by botanical drawings of leaves, flowers and gourds on a pale blue background. No further text.
Two-page CD sleeve of Dialita's 'Dunia Milik Kita' (Yes No Wave YESNO083, 2016) in Indonesian: track list crediting guest artists Frau, Cholil Mahmud, Sisir Tanah, Lintang Radittya, Kroncongan Agawe Santosa and Nadya Hatta. A notice says the MP3s are free under a digital licence and that copying and selling the CD is '
Seven-page liner essay by Arman Dhani, issued with the free download of Dialita's album Dunia Milik Kita (2016), framing it as hearing again voices silenced by 'collective sin' after 1965 and introducing the ten songs and their young arrangers. A guide to the women's choir's repertoire.
One-hour (55:48) audio compilation of songs associated with the Indonesian communist movement and the Sukarno era, compiled and uploaded by GETchan to the Internet Archive in 2016. Description only; no track list or transcript, so Gerwani content cannot be confirmed.
Live audio (12:06), 2016, of the Dialita choir of women survivors of 1965 and relatives performing at LBH Jakarta during the Belok Kiri (Turn Left) Festival. Documents survivors' song as public memory work. Description only; no repertoire listed.
Ipong Jazimah's 2016 biographical sketch of S.K. Trimurti (1912-2008): journalist, labour minister, Gerwis co-founder, Petisi 50 signatory. Pages 50-51 cover Gerwis's founding; relies on a few secondary sources.
Anett Keller's German briefing (March 2016, Stiftung Asienhaus) on the neglected gender dimension of 1965: Lubang Buaya slander, the film and monument, tattoo hunts, sexual torture, forced marriages of widows, Plantungan and 'State Ibuism'. Written after the IPT 1965.
Pohlman (2016) argues the demonisation of Gerwani created an enduring 'pathological discourse' constraining women's sexual and political citizenship; perpetrators invoked the slander to justify violence, as in the cases of Ibu Susiani and others.
Katharine McGregor's Aug 2016 gateway essay to the Indonesia section of the Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires database: anti-imperial activism, Gerwani and the WIDF, source guide (Api Kartini, congress reports) and thematic analyses. Introduction for researchers.
Release page for Dialita's free album Dunia Milik Kita (17 Aug 2016, Yes No Wave): ten songs, most written in prison camps (Bukit Duri, Plantungan, Ambarawa, Salemba) or by Lekra composers, arranged by young indie musicians. Documents the choir of women ex-prisoners.
Unsiyah Marhamah's 2016 review in Jurnal Perempuan of Saskia Wieringa's novel The Crocodile Hole, following a Dutch researcher in 1980 investigating Gerwani and 1965 with ex-prisoner informants; argues fiction can convey historical facts. Literary treatment of Gerwani.
Jurnal Perempuan event report (3 Aug 2016) on a Solo discussion of Adrian Mulya's photobook Pemenang Kehidupan, portraits of elderly 1965 survivors made over seven years. Context on photography and survivors.
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.
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.