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GA-03011 2024 rel B

Ogah Dipaksa Kawin, Maisuri Kawin Lari Berujung Dibui (Historia, 2024)

Refusing forced marriage, Maisuri eloped and was jailed (Historia, 2024)

Historia article (24 July 2024) on the 1954-55 Maisuri case in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra: a girl forced into marriage to an elderly man with three wives fled, eloped and was jailed by an adat court. A forced-marriage case later taken up in Gerwani's campaigns.

GA-02904 2025 rel B

Marriages between Political Prisoners' Wives and Army Officers: Victimization of Women (Kochi Kaoru, 2025)

Marriages between political prisoners' wives and army officers (Kochi Kaoru, 2025)

Kochi Kaoru's 2025 article using second-hand-market documents to show that wives and widows of leftist men, including former Gerwani members, married or became concubines of officers and soldiers, and the army banned the practice; also covers 'bersih diri' certificates and disenfranchisement.