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GA-02866 2016 rel B

S.K. Trimurti, Pejuang Perempuan Indonesia (Jazimah, 2016)

S.K. Trimurti, Indonesian woman fighter (Jazimah, 2016)

Ipong Jazimah's 2016 biographical sketch of S.K. Trimurti (1912-2008): journalist, labour minister, Gerwis co-founder, Petisi 50 signatory. Pages 50-51 cover Gerwis's founding; relies on a few secondary sources.

GA-02969 2017 rel C

Jejak Kekerasan pada Novel Tarian Bumi Karya Oka Rusmini (Haryanti, 2017)

Traces of violence in the novel Tarian Bumi by Oka Rusmini (Haryanti, 2017)

Novi Haryanti's 2017 postcolonial-feminist reading of Oka Rusmini's Balinese novel Tarian Bumi, arguing 1965 politics and caste adat both produce violence on women; notes 1965 is rarely a literary subject. Literary context; Gerwani not central.

GA-02999 2017 rel B

Jalan Berliku Federasi Perempuan (Historia, 2017)

The winding road of the women's federation (Historia, 2017)

Historia article (2017) tracing the Indonesian women's federation from the 1928 congress to its capture by the New Order in 1966, framed by Ruth Indiah Rahayu's view that the movement 'died' and was confined to Dharma Wanita and PKK. Popular history.

GA-03000 2017 rel B

Tujuh Tahanan Politik Perempuan di Kamp Plantungan (Historia, 2017; pratinjau)

Seven women political prisoners at Plantungan camp (Historia, 2017; preview)

Historia article (4 Oct 2017, preview only) on seven women political prisoners at Plantungan, the women's 'Pulau Buru' at the foot of Mount Prau, with historian Amurwani Lestariningsih on the inmates (Gerwani, CGMI, PKI sympathisers, some arrested by mistake). Partial text.

GA-03012 2017 rel B

Kekerasan Seksual terhadap Perempuan Pasca Peristiwa 1965 (Historia, 2017)

Sexual violence against women after the 1965 events (Historia, 2017)

Historia report (17 Mar 2017) on a Komnas Perempuan/YLBHI/IPT 65 session on sexual violence after 1965, opening with Bedjo Untung's case of Zaenab, a 12-year-old in Pekalongan stripped and repeatedly raped by soldiers. Testimony on sexual violence.

GA-03029 2017 rel B

Atlet Berprestasi Dituduh PKI Bertransformasi Diri Jadi Laki-laki (Historia, 2017)

Prize-winning athlete accused of being PKI who transformed herself into a man (Historia, 2017)

Historia feature (2017) on Karnah Sukarta (b. 1940, Ciamis), bronze medallist in javelin at the 1958 Asian Games, a Sukarno-admiring student reportedly joined Gerwani in Kawali, arrested after 1965 and held in Bandung. Biography of an athlete linked to Gerwani.

GA-02861 2018 rel A

Seratus Tahun Feminisme di Indonesia (Arivia dan Subono, FES, 2018)

One Hundred Years of Feminism in Indonesia (Arivia and Subono, FES, 2018)

FES-published study (2018) by Gadis Arivia and Nur Iman Subono arguing Indonesian feminism has local roots; one page on Gerwani, then New Order state women's organisations and Reformasi (Suara Ibu Peduli, Komnas Perempuan). Overview of feminist history.

GA-03002 2018 rel B

Perempuan Ditekan, Perempuan Melawan (Historia, 2018)

Women suppressed, women resisting (Historia, 2018)

Historia feature (2018) on how the New Order subordinated the women's movement after 1965, branding politically minded women 'like Gerwani' and portraying Gerwani as beautiful but cruel, and how independent organising revived from the 1980s. Draws on Suryakusuma and Murniati.

GA-03003 2018 rel C

Pukulan Telak bagi Gerakan Perempuan (Historia, 2018)

A heavy blow to the women's movement (Historia, 2018)

Historia article (2018) on the 1953 women's campaign against Government Regulation 19/1952 giving civil-service pensions to all widows of polygynous officials, including the 17 Dec 1953 mass meeting at Deca Park attended by Gerwani and others. Context on the anti-polygamy movement.

GA-02867 2019 rel A

Peranan Gerwani dalam Pembebasan Irian Barat 1950-1963 (Dimas Dwi Kurnia, 2019)

The role of Gerwani in the liberation of West Irian 1950-1963 (Kurnia, 2019)

2019 history thesis (UNY) by Dimas Dwi Kurnia on Gerwani's role in the West Irian campaign 1950-63: 1951 and 1957 congress resolutions, the 1957 charter with the army-youth body BKSPM, 1960 statement for 710,000 members and the 1962 volunteer call. Key source on Gerwani and West Irian.

GA-02964 2019 rel C

Postmemory dalam Novel Tapol Karya Ngarto Februana (Assa, 2019)

Postmemory in the novel Tapol by Ngarto Februana (Assa, 2019)

Anna Assa's 2019 literary thesis applying Hirsch's postmemory to Ngarto Februana's novel Tapol (2002), arguing the author received 1965 memory affiliatively from three elderly ex-prisoners. Literary context; Gerwani not central.

GA-03004 2019 rel B

Hari Raya Qurban di Kamp Plantungan (Historia, 2019)

Eid al-Adha at Plantungan camp (Historia, 2019)

Historia vignette (2019) on Eid al-Adha at Plantungan camp, drawing on Lestariningsih's book and Mia Bustam's memoir: prisoners allowed to pray with villagers, the camp's livestock unit, and Bustam giving away her meat. Camp daily life.

GA-03005 2019 rel B

Perempuan dalam Pemilu Pertama (Historia, 2019)

Women in the first election (Historia, 2019)

Historia article (2019) on women's wings of parties in the 1955 election (Perwamu, Parkiwa, Wanita Demokrat, Aisyiyah, Bhayangkari), noting the PKI grew close to Gerwani and that Mudigdio and Umi Sardjono entered the DPR for the PKI. Context on Gerwani and elections.

GA-02736 2020 rel A

Umi Sardjono, Pendulum Gerwani (infografis Historia, 2020)

Umi Sardjono, Gerwani's Pendulum (Historia Infographic, 2020)

Historia infographic (2020) with a timeline of Umi Sardjono, Gerwani chair: born Semarang 1923 as Suharti, anti-Japanese underground work, leadership of Gerwani, and detention ending at Plantungan. Popular biographical summary.

GA-02858 2020 rel A

Zulbainar, Perempuan Pejuang Masyarakat Marjinal sebagai Aktivis Gerwani (1961-1977)

Zulbainar, a woman fighter for marginal communities as Gerwani activist (1961-1977)

Journal article (2020) by Agustina and Fatimah, a biography of Zulbainar (b. 1939, West Sumatra), who joined Gerwani c. 1954, became treasurer of Gerwani Padang Pariaman, lost her husband to a mob in 1965 and was held 12 years without trial until 1977. Regional Gerwani life history.

GA-02971 2020 rel C

Transmisi Memori dan Wacana Rekonsiliasi dalam Cerpen Perempuan Sinting di Dapur karya Ugoran Prasad: Kajian Postmemory (Jati, 2020)

Memory transmission and reconciliation discourse in Ugoran Prasad's short story 'Perempuan Sinting di Dapur' (Jati, 2020

2020 UGM article applying postmemory to Ugoran Prasad's short story 'Perempuan Sinting di Dapur', in which a dying man's guilt over slandering a widow's husband as an infidel in 1965 is transmitted to a young narrator. Literary context; Gerwani not named.