Construction of History under the New Order: making the Lubang Buaya narrative (summary, 2010)
Seven-page summary (LIPI journal, 2010) of Djakababa's dissertation arguing 1 Oct 1965 was chaotic and the New Order turned it into a good-versus-evil narrative via trials, the monument, commemoration and the film. Short companion to the full thesis.
ICTJ and KontraS report (March 2011) on transitional justice since 1998: inquiries launched then stalled, Attorney General inaction on Komnas HAM files, zero convictions in human rights courts, reparations tied to missing verdicts. Context for the impunity facing 1965 victims.
Indonesian women's organisations in historical frame (Mursidah, 2012)
Mursidah's 2012 survey of Indonesian women's organisations as a 'feminist movement', from Kartini to the New Order and left activism today; about two pages on Gerwani. Thin general overview.
Ex-PKI political prisoners and government control: Moncongloe community, South Sulawesi (Ahmad, 2013)
2013 article by Taufik Ahmad on about 911 ex-political prisoners (BTI, Lekra, CGMI, Gerwani activists) held at Moncongloe, South Sulawesi: their 1975-77 release and post-release control through reporting, Pancasila courses, ET identity-card code and screening. Context on stigma.
Gerwani and children's rights (Historia preview, 2013)
Historia.id article (preview only) titled 'Gerwani dan Hak Anak'; the free preview covers only the New Order's National Children's Day (1984) and Decade of the Child (1986), not Gerwani. Little usable content.
Incitement to Genocide against a Political Group: the anti-communist killings (Pohlman, 2014)
Pohlman's 2014 article arguing the 1965-68 killings were political genocide and that the military's post-coup propaganda, including fabricated stories, constituted incitement to genocide; critiques the exclusion of political groups from the Genocide Convention.
Stigma of women victims of sexual violence and erasure of existence (Lustanto, 2015)
Rendi Lustanto's 27 Sep 2015 Jurnal Perempuan essay on the stigma of women pregnant outside marriage and victims of sexual violence; Gerwani enters only briefly. Opinion piece with little Gerwani content.
Acknowledgement and Truth for 1965 Victims: A Call for Comprehensive Reparations (AJAR, 2016)
AJAR press statement, 19 April 2016, responding to the national symposium on 1965; says officials were reluctant to apologise and insists on victims' rights to truth, justice and reparations. Civil-society reaction to state handling of 1965.
One Hour of Indonesian Communist Music (Compilation, 2016)
One-hour (55:48) audio compilation of songs associated with the Indonesian communist movement and the Sukarno era, compiled and uploaded by GETchan to the Internet Archive in 2016. Description only; no track list or transcript, so Gerwani content cannot be confirmed.
Dialita Live at LBH Jakarta, Belok Kiri Festival, 2016
Live audio (12:06), 2016, of the Dialita choir of women survivors of 1965 and relatives performing at LBH Jakarta during the Belok Kiri (Turn Left) Festival. Documents survivors' song as public memory work. Description only; no repertoire listed.
Photobook Pemenang Kehidupan and efforts to reveal the 1965-66 issue (Parengkuh, 2016)
Jurnal Perempuan event report (3 Aug 2016) on a Solo discussion of Adrian Mulya's photobook Pemenang Kehidupan, portraits of elderly 1965 survivors made over seven years. Context on photography and survivors.
Data and Facts on the Revival of the PKI (Audio Lectures, 2017)
Audio item (description only, no transcript): 'Data dan Fakta Kebangkitan PKI', a 3:12:35 recording of lectures by Alfian Tanjung, Rizieq Shihab and Kivlan Zen, tagged Aksi Bela Islam III (2017), hosted on archive.org. It argues for an alleged revival of the PKI; relevant as contemporary anti-communist propaganda. No G
Kivlan Zen Attacks Bedjo Untung (YPKP 1965) on Indonesia Lawyers Club, tvOne, 2017
12-minute clip of tvOne's Indonesia Lawyers Club (2017), episode 'PKI, Hantu atau Nyata?'. Split-screen debate between Bedjo Untung of YPKP 1965 and Kivlan Zen, who per the title attacks him. Shows contemporary anti-communist hostility toward 1965 survivors' advocacy. Description only.
Twelfth Kowani Congress and its influence on the women's movement (Wijayanti, 2017)
Undergraduate article (2017) on the twelfth Kowani congress, Jakarta, 6-9 Feb 1961, arguing it tied the women's movement to government policy under Guided Democracy and sidelined polygamy and literacy issues; notes a Perwari-Gerwani split. Mostly general survey.
The 1965 genocide in Indonesia concerns us all: the struggle for justice (Wieringa, 2017)
Two-page south-east Asia magazine piece (südostasien 1/2017, German) translating Wieringa's statement as IPT 1965 chair on the July 2016 verdict: crimes against humanity, 400,000-600,000 killed, sexual violence, hate propaganda, complicity of the US, UK and Australia. Gerwani not named.
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.
Ariel Heryanto's essay (Indonesia at Melbourne, 16 Jan 2018) arguing the state's own story of the 30 September Movement, disseminated since 1966, is the 'primary hoax' behind later 'secondary' ones. Commentary on state disinformation.
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.
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.
Bedjo Untung Plays Genjer-Genjer (Video Clip, 2020)
45-second phone video clip posted on Twitter by Vincent Bevins on 18 May 2020. Per its title, Bedjo Untung, chair of the 1965 victims' association YPKP 65, plays 'Genjer-genjer' on an upright piano at home while another older man moves to the music. Illustrates the song's use in survivors' memory work.
Buru Island: Still Much More to Reveal (Hearman, 2020)
Hearman's review essay (Archipel 99, 2020) of the documentary Pulau Buru: Tanah Air Beta (2016), in which Hersri Setiawan and Tejabayu Soedjojono return to Buru, with Ita Nadia and Ken Setiawan. Context on Buru and its memory.
Filmed Memories of 1965 (Elsa Clavé, 2020)
Elsa Clave's introduction (Archipel 99, 2020) to a dossier on 1965 and cinema, arguing memory remains institutionalised in museums and monuments and stigma of communism is easily manipulated, as in the 2017 attack on LBH Jakarta. Context on film and memory.
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.
Milestones of the Indonesian women's movement (Historia, 2020)
Historia report (22 Dec 2020) on an online dialogue with Ita Fatia Nadia and Tunggal Pawestri sketching milestones of the Indonesian women's movement from Kartini and early organisations through the 1928 congress. Short popular summary.
Memory transmission of 1965 in the novels Pulang and Amba (Mulyadi and Putra, 2021)
2021 article applying postmemory and '1.5 generation' concepts to the 1965 novels Pulang (Leila Chudori) and Amba (Laksmi Pamuntjak), distinguishing exiles, 1.5-generation and second-generation characters. Literary context.
Social and economic life of ex-tapol in South Blitar 1968-2000 (Masruroh et al., 2022)
2022 article by a Universitas Jember team on ex-political prisoners in South Blitar 1968-2000: weekly reporting, loss of civil rights (1.58 million excluded from the 1982 election), the 'ET' ID code and bans on marrying soldiers. Context on post-release control.
Political subject in Martin Aleida's short story 'Ode untuk Selembar KTP' (Nugroho, 2022)
2022 UGM article reading Martin Aleida's short story 'Ode untuk Selembar KTP' through Ranciere: a woman jailed thirteen years, ending at Plantungan, sells land to bribe an official to remove the 'ET' code from her ID. Literary context on stigma.
Exile trauma and gender in the novel Pulang: Hirsch's postmemory (Putra et al., 2024)
2024 article analysing Leila Chudori's novel Pulang through Hirsch's postmemory and gender: an exile in Paris passes trauma to his daughter Lintang via objects and letters. Literary context.
I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: life of a former 1965-66 political prisoner (Hidayat, 2025)
2025 single-case phenomenological study of an 86-year-old male former political prisoner (interviews via KontraS, 2024): union worker, arrest in 1966, torture, forced labour at Tangerang, Nusakambangan and Buru, later Aksi Kamisan activism. Male testimony; context only.
McGregor's 2025 chapter reading Francisca Fanggidaej's 2006 memoir (narrated to Hersri Setiawan) and IISH papers as a decolonial text: her Rotinese colonial-official father, racism in Penang, and critique of colonial hierarchies. Biography of a WIDF-linked Indonesian woman.