Historia report (22 Dec 2020) on an online dialogue with Ita Fatia Nadia and Tunggal Pawestri sketching milestones of the Indonesian women's movement from Kartini and early organisations through the 1928 congress. Short popular summary.
PhD dissertation (History, University of Washington, 2020) by Hongxuan Lin tracing the confluence of Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959, through vernacular print culture; it genealogises Sukarno's NASAKOM. Gerwani appears only briefly: citing Blackburn, it says millions joined for
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
Tempo.co profile (22 May 2023, Febyana Siagian and S. Dian Andryanto) of SK Trimurti, journalist and Indonesia's first labour minister. It covers her birth in Boyolali (1912), teacher training, Rukun Wanita, Partindo in Bandung, press work, witnessing the BPUPKI and the 1945 proclamation push, KNIP membership, and the
McGregor's 2025 chapter reading Francisca Fanggidaej's 2006 memoir (narrated to Hersri Setiawan) and IISH papers as a decolonial text: her Rotinese colonial-official father, racism in Penang, and critique of colonial hierarchies. Biography of a WIDF-linked Indonesian woman.
Columbia PhD dissertation (2025) by David Borgonjon, the first full-length study of Chinese-language (yinhua) literature in Indonesia 1945-65, set within Sino-Indonesian friendship, Afro-Asian translation and Guided Democracy-era debates on labour and schooling. Gerwani is barely present: a glossary entry gives Gerwani
PhD dissertation (Sociology, Northwestern, Dec. 2025) by Mirna Nadia arguing the heteronormative family acts as 'moral infrastructure' of Indonesian citizenship, via the Marriage Law, the AILA judicial review, the Family Resilience Bill, women household heads and LGBT people. Gerwani appears only in ch. 1's history of