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GA-03344 1965-11-03 The Straits Budget rel B

Indonesian Army says wholesale slaughter of civilians in east Java

Indonesian Army says wholesale slaughter of civilians in east Java (Straits Budget, 1965)

The Straits Budget (Singapore), 3 November 1965, p. 15, UPI/Antara: the army declares a state of war in Central Java and gives figures for civilians it says communists massacred (e.g. 62 bodies in three mass graves at Banyuwangi, 104 killed), while observers note the incidents all occurred after the coup. Nothing on Ge

GA-02917 2013 rel B

Child-raising, Childbirth and Abortion In Extremis: Women's Stories of Caring for and Losing Children, 1965-1966 (Pohlman, 2013)

Child-raising, Childbirth and Abortion In Extremis: women's stories 1965-1966 (Pohlman, 2013)

Pohlman's 2013 article, from about 150 interviews, on women's stories of pregnancy, childbirth, raising, losing and aborting children during 1965-66 and detention, including cooperative childcare and a former Gerwani leader (Ibu Astuti). Gendered history of survival.

GA-02943 2013 rel A

Truth Will Out: Indonesian Accounts of the 1965 Mass Violence (Baskara T. Wardaya, ed., 2013)

Truth Will Out: Indonesian Accounts of the 1965 Mass Violence (Wardaya, ed., 2013)

Wardaya's 2013 English edition of oral histories gathered 2008-11 by Sanata Dharma University's PUSdEP: witnesses from military, Muhammadiyah, Kejawen and Catholic backgrounds and survivors including women detained as alleged Gerwani; foreword summarises the Gerwani mutilation narrative and autopsy. Oral history source