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GA-02874 2020 rel A

Feminismus als Klassenfrage, Teil II (Ita Fatia Nadia, südostasien 2020)

Feminism as a Class Question, Part II (Ita Fatia Nadia, 2020)

Part II of Nadia's essay (südostasien 3/2020): how the army and paramilitaries used sexualised violence to destroy Gerwani after Oct 1965, the Lubang Buaya slander and film, 1966 tattoo 'searches', and New Order redefinition of women's roles. In German.

GA-02898 2020 rel B licensed

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.

GA-02906 2022 rel B licensed

Remembering through Fragmented Narratives: Third Generations and the 1965 Violence (Leksana and Subekti, 2022)

Remembering through Fragmented Narratives: third generation and the 1965 violence (Leksana and Subekti, 2022)

Leksana and Subekti (2022) on how 1965 memory reaches third-generation members of three survivor families, arguing family silence is a survival strategy preserving memory via fragmented narratives, mysticism and depoliticisation; one case has Gerwani grandparents.

GA-02977 2022 rel B licensed

Dialita: Collective Memories of Former Women Political Prisoners during the New Order Era in Java (Lestariningsih and Sunarti, 2022)

Dialita: Collective Memories of Former Women Political Prisoners in Java (Lestariningsih and Sunarti, 2022)

Memory Studies article (2022) on the Dialita choir of former women political prisoners and relatives as a vehicle for identity and 'cultural reconciliation', drawing on interviews with Uchikowati, Utati and others; co-author wrote a book on Plantungan Gerwani prisoners. Key study.

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.

GA-02931 2025 rel A licensed

From the Men They Took Their Labor, from the Women They Took Everything (Sarbinatun, trans. Nancy Florida, 2025)

From the Men They Took Their Labor, from the Women They Took Everything (Sarbinatun, transl. Florida, 2025)

Nancy Florida's annotated English translation (Indonesia, Oct 2025) of Sarbinatun's testimony: Lekra dancer and IPPI president, married at 17 to a PKI Special Bureau man, tortured in Solo and Semarang, held at Plantungan until 1979 and accused as Gerwani though never a member.