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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.

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Dynamics of Social Life-Economy of Ex-Tapol in South Blitar 1968-2000 (Masruroh et al., 2022)

Social and economic life of ex-tapol in South Blitar 1968-2000 (Masruroh et al., 2022)

2022 article by a Universitas Jember team on ex-political prisoners in South Blitar 1968-2000: weekly reporting, loss of civil rights (1.58 million excluded from the 1982 election), the 'ET' ID code and bans on marrying soldiers. Context on post-release control.

GA-02905 2023 rel A

Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia (Leksana, 2023)

Grace Leksana's 2023 open-access monograph on Donomulyo, South Malang, a 'red area' with a 'hamlet of widows', using army archives and 38 life histories to argue memory of 1965 is 'embedded' in local patronage and class. Local study of remembering.