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GA-01451 1957-01-16 Harian Rakjat rel A

Yu Siyem, aktivis Gerwani, oleh Sulami (Harian Rakjat, 16 Januari 1957, hlm. 3)

Yu Siyem, Gerwani activist, by Sulami (Harian Rakjat, 16 January 1957)

Harian Rakjat, 16 Jan 1957, p. 3: women's page ('Wanita') with a short story by Sulami (Gerwani) about 'Yu Siyem', a village market woman and Gerwani branch activist who recruits neighbours, tours distant villages and wins her husband's support, showing membership expansion and the Anak-Cabang structure. Also Soviet sc

GA-00014 1959 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 3 Th. 1, Agustus 1959

Api Kartini No. 3, Year 1, August 1959

Third issue of Api Kartini (Aug 1959), tied to the 17 August anniversary and return to UUD 45. Features women in the 1945–49 revolution, a poem against polygamy and cheap female labour, and international women's solidarity for Indonesian independence and West Irian.

GA-00068 1959 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Menyambut Hari Nasional

Welcoming National Day

Api Kartini (1959) editorial column 'Celebrating National Day': after Indonesia's 17 August, urges readers to welcome the national days of friendly states upholding the Bandung principles. Features the Democratic Republic of Vietnam's 2 September National Day with a poem by Ho Chi Minh. Solidarity propaganda with Asian

GA-00074 1960 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Gema Revolusi (fragmen)

Echoes of the Revolution (fragment)

Fragmentary Api Kartini (1960) item 'Echoes of Revolution': OCR remnants of a rhetorical piece or poem on women marching, crushing colonialism, and demanding equal rights in politics and economy. Too damaged to summarise beyond title and these themes.

GA-01409 1966-09-29 Harian Kami rel A

Harian Kami, 29 September 1966

Harian Kami, 29 September 1966: poem 'We remember again'

Harian Kami, 29 September 1966. Rosihan Anwar's poem 'Kami Mengenang Kembali' narrates the New Order's founding story in verse and pictures the generals at Lubang Buaya being sunk, with Gerwani implied.

GA-01634 1991-08-18 Media Indonesia rel B

Media Indonesia, 18 Agustus 1991: 'Novel-esei Romo Mangun' (Durga Umayi)

Media Indonesia, 18 August 1991: Romo Mangun's novel-essay (Durga Umayi)

Media Indonesia, 18 Aug 1991, p. 15: review of Y.B. Mangunwijaya's Durga Umayi summarising the heroine's path from Sukarno's household servant to rape, prostitution and becoming 'an important figure in Gerwani', a political fugitive.

GA-01588 2002-08-11 Bali Post rel B

Bali Post, 11 Agustus 2002: cerpen 'Ngaben' (I Wayan Artika)

Bali Post, 11 August 2002: short story 'Ngaben' (I Wayan Artika)

Bali Post, 11 Aug 2002, p. 10: short story 'Ngaben' about a PKI activist's family fleeing the 1965–66 Bali killings; the father knew of the plans 'from the stories of the Gerwani women'.

GA-02978 2009 rel B

Aku Seorang Gerwani (puisi, Omie Lubis, IndoPROGRESS, 2009)

Aku Seorang Gerwani: poem (Omie Lubis, 2009)

Free-verse poem 'Aku Seorang Gerwani' by Omie Lubis (IndoPROGRESS, 5 May 2009): a Gerwani woman's monologue to her child born of rape, describing forced nakedness and forced 'painting of history', ending as a testament to truth and justice. Literary representation.

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-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-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.

GA-03018 2020 rel A

Narasi Sulami versus Narasi Orde Baru (Rahayu, IndoPROGRESS, 2020)

Sulami's narrative versus the New Order narrative (Rahayu, 2020)

Ruth Indiah Rahayu's 2020 essay introducing Sulami's unpublished two-volume prison novel Menanti Rembulan Ndadari, written in the 1970s, with Sulami's biography (arrested 6 Oct 1967) and the conditions of writing in Bukit Duri and Tangerang, set against New Order narratives.

GA-02989 2021 rel B

Bentuk Perlawanan Perempuan melalui Penulisan dalam Album Dunia Milik Kita dan Salam Harapan (Saraswati dan Subono, 2021)

Women's resistance through writing in the albums Dunia Milik Kita and Salam Harapan (Saraswati and Subono, 2021)

2021 article by Saraswati and supervisors on Dialita's albums Dunia Milik Kita (2016) and Salam Harapan (2019), arguing songs by women prisoners are 'penulisan perempuan' and a form of resistance, with an account of Dialita's origins. Companion to the 2022 thesis summary.