Historia infographic (2020) with a timeline of Umi Sardjono, Gerwani chair: born Semarang 1923 as Suharti, anti-Japanese underground work, leadership of Gerwani, and detention ending at Plantungan. Popular biographical summary.
Part I of Ita Fatia Nadia's essay (südostasien 3/2020) tracing the women's movement 1912-65 to Gerwani: peasant and plantation work, marriage and land reform, WIDF ties and 1.7 million members. Notes Kowani in the WIDF 1946-49 and Indonesian women at the WIDF secretariat. In German.
Charles P. Sullivan's PhD dissertation (History, University of Michigan, 2020) reads Indonesian women's magazines (Wanita, Puspa Wanita, Varia) from 1945-66 to argue that the Lubang Buaya narrative about Gerwani worked as a 'post-text' of long-running anxieties over modernity, moral crisis and the 'Mother of the Nation
Tempo article, 1 May 2021, by Isma Savitri and Hardian Putra Pratama, on Lekra writer Sugiarti Siswadi: Lekra central leadership member from 1959, children's-literature advocate, author of the banned Sorga Dibumi, and editor of Api Kartini. Researchers cannot trace her life; one suspects she was jailed in Semarang in 1
Deden Rahmanudin, 'Gerwani Mazhab Politik Islam Era Soekarno' (Jurnal Kewarganegaraan 6:2, 2022), a literature-based article presenting Gerwani as a feminist movement and discussing it from an Islamic viewpoint (Sukarno's Sarinah, Hamka). Drawing on Wieringa and Lestariningsih, it recounts Gerwani's 1950 founding, MPs
Tempo feature (20 Aug 2022) by Seno Joko Suyono and Nurdin Kalim on the paintings and embroidery of Mia Bustam, former wife of the painter S. Sudjojono. Her children recall her Lekra activity, the loss of a self-portrait when the Lekra secretariat was raided in 1965, and works made in Wirogunan prison (1966-71) and at
Rania Dhiyaulhaq Aisyah, 'Transformasi Gerwani' (Jurnal Sejarah Indonesia 8:2, 2025), a literature-based article on Gerwani's pre-1965 gender activism (education, health, anti-polygamy, 1955 elections, PKI ties, congresses) and its post-1965 stigmatisation. It repeats Wieringa's finding that the Lubang Buaya sexual-vio
Booklet by the Bersemai Sekebun community and Lauk Buku (2025) retracing the life of artist and Lekra figure Mia Bustam through Semarang sites, with essays and a tour report. It covers her 1965 arrest, imprisonment in Plantungan camp and Bulu women's prison, and her four memoirs. Gerwani is not named; it concerns women
Booklet by the Bersemai Sekebun community and Lauk Buku (2025) retracing the life of artist and Lekra figure Mia Bustam through Semarang sites, with essays and a tour report. It covers her 1965 arrest, imprisonment in Plantungan camp and Bulu women's prison, and her four memoirs. Gerwani is not named; it concerns women