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GA-02930 2004 rel A

Tahun yang Tak Pernah Berakhir: Memahami Pengalaman Korban 65 (Roosa, Ratih dan Farid, eds., 2004)

The Year That Never Ended: Understanding the Experiences of 1965 Victims (Roosa, Ratih and Farid, eds., 2004)

2004 Elsam/ISSI/TRuK volume distilling an oral history project of 260 victims, with essays including on women political prisoners (Josepha Sukartiningsih), rape in Central Java, survival strategies and Blitar Selatan. Introduction defends oral history against the Lubang Buaya myth.

GA-02252 2012-10-01 Tempo rel C licensed

Dari Gudang Beras ke Kebun Pisang (Pembantaian di Grobogan)

Tempo, 1 October 2012: From the rice warehouse to the banana grove (Grobogan massacre)

Tempo reconstruction (1 Oct 2012) of army-directed killings of PKI members in Grobogan/Purwodadi, 1967-68 (Operasi Kikis), centred on a rice-warehouse detention camp at Kuwu. Draws on Poncke Princen's 1969 exposure, Henk Kolb's list of mass graves, Hanra Inti militia and Kodam Diponegoro intelligence figures. Gerwani i

GA-02260 2012-10-01 Tempo rel C licensed

Jasad Terapung sampai Jauh (Jembatan Bacem, Bengawan Solo)

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Bodies floating far away (Bacem bridge, Bengawan Solo)

Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on the Bacem bridge over Bengawan Solo (Sukoharjo), an execution site where bodies were thrown into the river in Oct 1965 and for months after. Local witnesses (Mbah Wiryo, Bibit, Supeno) and historian Sudharmono; dispute over whether Banser NU took part. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-02266 2012-10-01 Tempo rel C licensed

Mengambil Jatah di Daerah Merah (Boyolali dan Klaten)

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Taking quotas in the red zone (Boyolali and Klaten)

Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on the killing fields of Boyolali and Klaten at the foot of Merapi from 22 Oct 1965, with RPKAD and Kodam Diponegoro. Testimony of Soepomo (Pemuda Rakyat, now head of the 1965 victims research foundation) and Gito Sudarmo, who 'took quotas' of suspected PKI for execution at sites such as Sonol

GA-02280 2016-02-08 Tempo rel A licensed

Mintardjo dan Sepenggal Cerita Gerwis

Tempo, 8 February 2016: Mintardjo and a fragment of Gerwis history

Tempo review (8 Feb 2016) of Elisabeth Ida Mulyani's video 'Supervivere' on 1965 exiles (Mintardjo and nine others in the Netherlands and Sweden), shown in Yogyakarta with a charcoal portrait 'Suti, Plight of Gerwani' by Dewi Candraningrum. It describes Suti, 95, founder of Gerwis Musuk/Boyolali in 1952, a literacy cam

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-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-02297 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Umi Sardjono dan Hantu Tahunan PKI

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Umi Sardjono and the annual PKI ghost

Tempo column (2 Oct 2021, Budi Setyarso) using Umi Sardjono's life to argue that 1965 history is still painted in black and white. It notes her arrest without trial, Bukit Duri and Plantungan until 1979, Gerwani's origins in Gerwis, about 1.5 million members by 1960, literacy courses, her immigration and marriage-law w