Final Report of the IPT 1965: Findings and Documents (Web Text, 2016)
Web edition of the final report of the seven judges of the International People's Tribunal 1965 (The Hague, Nov 2015; report 20 July 2016): finds Indonesia responsible for crimes against humanity, including sexual violence and hate propaganda, and the US, UK and Australia complicit.
Suti, Gerwani Activist: In a Mother's Womb We Are All the Same (Jurnal Perempuan, 2016)
Jurnal Perempuan feature (Jan 2016) on a Jejer Wadon visit to Suti (Arjo Sutiyem), 96, in Musuk, Boyolali: her reasons for joining the women's movement, early life, chairing Gerwis Boyolali with 4,000 members from 1952. Adds biographical detail to the 2014 profile.
Half a Century After G30S, Survivors Retrace Steps to Plantungan Camp (KBR, 2016)
KBR report (23 Dec 2016) on former women prisoners and a Komnas Perempuan team visiting the Plantungan camp site: testimonies of Sumilah (forced to admit Gerwani membership, stripped) and Debora Oni, and the Lubang Buaya slander. Memorialisation of Plantungan.
The Story of Suti, 96-Year-Old Gerwani Activist and 1965 Survivor (Rappler, 2016)
Rappler first-person account (2 Feb 2016) of Suti (Arjo Sutiyem), 96: born 1920 in Musuk, third wife in an arranged marriage, joined Gerwis in 1951, chaired Musuk and Boyolali Gerwani, then persecuted in 1965. Fullest of three texts on her.
Gerwani in Saskia Wieringa's novel The Crocodile Hole (Marhamah, 2016)
Unsiyah Marhamah's 2016 review in Jurnal Perempuan of Saskia Wieringa's novel The Crocodile Hole, following a Dutch researcher in 1980 investigating Gerwani and 1965 with ex-prisoner informants; argues fiction can convey historical facts. Literary treatment of Gerwani.
Photobook Pemenang Kehidupan and efforts to reveal the 1965-66 issue (Parengkuh, 2016)
Jurnal Perempuan event report (3 Aug 2016) on a Solo discussion of Adrian Mulya's photobook Pemenang Kehidupan, portraits of elderly 1965 survivors made over seven years. Context on photography and survivors.
Gerwani and the pioneering of women's political struggle (Sundari, 2016)
Akhiriyati Sundari's 2016 Jurnal Perempuan review of the Indonesian translation of Wieringa's Sexual Politics in Indonesia (Penghancuran Gerakan Perempuan, 2010), recounting the Lubang Buaya slander as staged in the film and Gerwani's pioneering role. Book review.
Gerwani, pioneer of the socialist-feminist women's movement in Indonesia (Sundari, 2016)
Akhiriyati Sundari's second 2016 Jurnal Perempuan essay placing Gerwani in a typology of feminist theory as the most progressive socialist-feminist movement, strongest between its first and second congresses; marks 1965 and the IPT. Interpretive essay.