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GA-00218 1966-10-01 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1966 (edisi Hari Kesaktian Pancasila pertama)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 October 1966 (First Hari Kesaktian Pancasila Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1966 (edisi Hari Kesaktian Pancasila pertama). First-anniversary issue and the richest Gerwani source in the batch: prints the official 'Risalah singkat tragedi nasional' claiming officers were tortured 'beyond humanity by members of Pemuda Rakyat and GERWANI', plus 'Bung Piket' retrospe

GA-00219 1966-10-02 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 2 Oktober 1966 (edisi Mingguan)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 2 October 1966 (Weekly Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 2 Oktober 1966 (edisi Mingguan). Sunday weekly edition continuing the army's 'Risalah singkat tragedi nasional' (p. 3), repeating that four officers were tortured 'by members of Pemuda Rakjat and GERWANI' before being thrown into the Lubang Buaya well.

GA-01572 1991-11-10 Akcaya rel A

Akcaya, 10 November 1991: 'Kisah Sukitman tentang G30S PKI' (bagian kedua)

Sukitman's story of G30S/PKI (part 2)

Akcaya (Pontianak), 10 Nov 1991, p. 7: concluding part of a retelling of police officer Sukitman's 1965 story, with the paper glossing the 'volunteers' as '(Gerwani - red)', reproducing the New Order slander.

GA-01512 1999-07-17 South China Morning Post rel B licensed

Killing off the communists (South China Morning Post, 17 Juli 1999)

Killing off the communists (South China Morning Post, 17 July 1999)

South China Morning Post, 17 July 1999, p.37, Marian Wilkinson (Sydney Morning Herald), 'Killing off the communists': newly released US embassy and CIA cables show US officials encouraging the army's anti-PKI campaign in Oct-Nov 1965, urging anti-PKI propaganda that links 'diabolical murder and mutilation of the genera

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-02929 2020 rel A

Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia (John Roosa, 2020)

Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia (Roosa, 2020)

John Roosa's 2020 book, from nearly 400 interviews, arguing the typical 1965-66 killing was army execution of detainees (hence mass disappearance); dissects army propaganda including how Gen. Sugandhi sexualised Lubang Buaya from 9 Oct 1965. Key scholarship.

GA-02951 2020 rel A

The Women and the Generals: Unraveling a Myth of Sexual Perversion (Wieringa, Archipel 99, 2020)

The Women and the Generals: Unraveling a Myth of Sexual Perversion (Wieringa, 2020)

Wieringa's five-page review (Archipel 99, 2020) of Maj Wechselmann's documentary The Women and the Generals, which shows the army fabricated the story that Gerwani seduced and castrated the generals at Lubang Buaya as the core of the propaganda campaign. Film review.

GA-02859 2025 rel A

Transformasi Gerwani: Keterlibatan dalam Perjuangan Gender hingga Stigmatisasi Pasca 1965 (Aisyah, 2025)

Transformation of Gerwani: gender struggle to post-1965 stigmatisation (Aisyah, 2025)

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