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GA-00947 1978-03-09 De Waarheid rel A

NVB op Internationale Vrouwendag: geen steun voor Suharto (Van Heutsz-monument omhuld)

NVB on International Women's Day: no support for Suharto (Van Heutsz monument wrapped)

De Waarheid, 9 Mar 1978, p. 1: report that NVB women on International Women's Day wrapped the Van Heutsz monument in Amsterdam in white cloth marked 'Gerwani'. The item summarises Gerwani's pre-1965 work (clinics, crèches, kindergartens, courses, anti-polygamy campaigns) and the 1975 trials: Sulami life, Suharti, Sudji

GA-01628 1989-10-02 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 2 Oktober 1989: peringatan Hari Kesaktian Pancasila

Harian Neraca, 2 October 1989: Hari Kesaktian Pancasila commemoration

Harian Neraca, 2 Oct 1989, p. 11: education-women page with Minister Fuad Hassan's speech making Hapsak Pancasila a national tradition, and a report on the Lubang Buaya ceremony that mentions Gerwani.

GA-01636 2002-10-07 Waspada rel A

Waspada, 7 Oktober 2002: peringatan di monumen Sudjono, Bandarbetsy

Waspada, 7 October 2002: Commemoration at the Sudjono monument, Bandar Betsy

Waspada, 7 Oct 2002, p. 11: feature on the 1 Oct 2002 commemoration at the Sudjono monument in Bandarbetsy, retelling the 1965 killing of Peltu Sudjono by BTI squatters joined by Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and Lekra who 'sang and danced'.

GA-03058 2015 rel C licensed

Ripples, Echoes, and Reverberations: 1965 and Now in Indonesia (PhD Berkeley, 2015)

Ripples, Echoes, and Reverberations: 1965 and Now in Indonesia (Stroud, 2015)

Martha Stroud's 2015 UC Berkeley/UCSF medical-anthropology dissertation, based on fieldwork in Yogyakarta (2010-12), examines how the 1965-66 killings shape daily life through propaganda, surveillance, stigma, silence and justice. Gerwani appears mainly as the object of New Order propaganda: the Lubang Buaya mutilation

GA-02902 2016 rel B

Das Stigma der wilden Weiber in Indonesien (Anett Keller, 2016)

The stigma of the 'wild women' in Indonesia (Anett Keller, 2016)

Anett Keller's German briefing (March 2016, Stiftung Asienhaus) on the neglected gender dimension of 1965: Lubang Buaya slander, the film and monument, tattoo hunts, sexual torture, forced marriages of widows, Plantungan and 'State Ibuism'. Written after the IPT 1965.

GA-02729 2017 rel B

Kisah Pelarian Tiga Gerwani dari Penjara Bukit Duri (Merdeka.com, 2012)

The Flight of Three Gerwani Women from Bukit Duri Prison (Merdeka.com, 2012)

Merdeka.com feature (2012; YPKP repost 2017) visiting the demolished Bukit Duri women's prison: neighbours recall a 1975 escape by three alleged Gerwani women, and journalist Sri Sulistyawati describes eleven years held there without trial. Memory of a women's detention site.

GA-03032 2026 rel C licensed

Counter-Monuments: Art and Memory in Post-1965 Indonesia

Counter-Monuments: Art and Memory in Post-1965 Indonesia (Bontrager, 2026)

MA thesis (University of Georgia, 2026) by Alyx L. Bontrager on how Indonesian artists Rangga Purbaya, Dadang Christanto and Leyla Stevens use testimony, embodiment and place as memory activism against the silencing of the 1965-66 genocide, theorised as 'counter-monuments'. Gerwani appears only in passing: ch. 2 (p. 7)