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GA-01514 1998-09-27 South China Sunday Morning Post rel B licensed

Rethink on Suharto role in coup (South China Sunday Morning Post, 27 September 1998)

South China Sunday Morning Post, 27 Sep 1998, p.8, Jenny Grant: after Suharto's fall, historians and politicians call for a reassessment of the 1965 coup and killings; the government has dropped compulsory screening of the New Order propaganda film. The article repeats that members of 'the communist women's organisatio

GA-01512 1999-07-17 South China Morning Post rel B licensed

Killing off the communists (South China Morning Post, 17 Juli 1999)

Killing off the communists (South China Morning Post, 17 July 1999)

South China Morning Post, 17 July 1999, p.37, Marian Wilkinson (Sydney Morning Herald), 'Killing off the communists': newly released US embassy and CIA cables show US officials encouraging the army's anti-PKI campaign in Oct-Nov 1965, urging anti-PKI propaganda that links 'diabolical murder and mutilation of the genera

GA-02942 2001 rel B

The Battle for History after Suharto (van Klinken, 2001)

Gerry van Klinken's 2001 article mapping the post-Suharto contest over the national past: statist New Order history (film, Lubang Buaya rituals, book bans), versus societal streams including Sulami's 1999 truth-seeking organisation and Pramoedya. Historiographical context.

GA-02889 2009 rel B licensed

The Construction of History under Indonesia's New Order: The Lubang Buaya Official Narrative (PhD diss., Wisconsin, 2009)

The Construction of History under Indonesia's New Order: the Lubang Buaya official narrative (Djakababa, 2009)

Yosef Djakababa's 2009 Wisconsin dissertation on how the New Order built the official Lubang Buaya narrative (PKI sole mastermind, spontaneous people's response) via army history, Mahmillub trials, the monument, Hari Kesaktian Pancasila and the film. Key study of official memory.

GA-02910 2009 rel B licensed

Confronting the Past in Contemporary Indonesia: The Anticommunist Killings of 1965-66 and the Role of the Nahdlatul Ulama (McGregor, 2009)

Confronting the Past: the anticommunist killings of 1965-66 and the role of Nahdlatul Ulama (McGregor, 2009)

Katharine McGregor's 2009 article on NU's support for the 1965-66 killings (e.g. its 5 Oct 1965 call to ban the PKI, Gerwani and others), their celebration under the New Order and Syarikat's post-1998 reconciliation work. Context on religious-organisation role.

GA-02246 2012-10-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Film, Teror Negara, dan Luka Bangsa (Ariel Heryanto)

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Film, state terror and the nation's wound (Ariel Heryanto)

Ariel Heryanto essay in Tempo (1 Oct 2012) on state terror, propaganda film and the 1965 wound, from Supersemar and the Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI film to post-1998 indie documentaries and The Act of Killing. One passage states Gerwani leaders were detained, raped, tortured and portrayed as immoral mutilators in army press

GA-02254 2012-10-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Di Bawah Cengkeraman Kopkamtib

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Under Kopkamtib's grip

Tempo explainer (1 Oct 2012) on Kopkamtib, set up by Suharto on 2 Oct 1965 as the 'super organisation' that planned and drove the mass killings and detentions (Komnas HAM names it chief perpetrator). It notes army-controlled media showing Lubang Buaya photos with stories that Gerwani women tortured the generals, and ci

GA-02276 2012-10-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Soal Statistik Korban

Tempo, 1 October 2012: The question of victim statistics

Tempo explainer (1 Oct 2012) on victim statistics for 1965-66 (estimates 200,000 to 3 million; most likely about half a million), weighing the Oei Tjoe Tat commission's 78,000, Kopkamtib's 1 million, Sarwo Edhie's 3 million and census evidence. It notes army propaganda about torture of the generals at Lubang Buaya was

GA-02982 2015 rel B licensed

Genjer-genjer, Lagu yang Ditakuti Sejarah (Tempo, Ika Ningtyas, 2015)

Genjer-genjer, the song feared by history (Tempo, Ika Ningtyas, 2015)

Tempo feature (8 June 2015; IPT 1965 repost) on 'Genjermania', a Berlin live-music project by Tomi Simatupang raising funds for the son of Genjer-genjer composer Muhammad Arief, killed after 1965; traces the song's Japanese-occupation origin and its 1965 stigma.

GA-03009 2015 rel B

Gerwani dan Pembunuhan Identitas (Lustanto, Jurnal Perempuan, 2015)

Gerwani and the murder of identity (Lustanto, 2015)

Rendi Lustanto's 2015 Jurnal Perempuan essay on the 50th anniversary of 1965: Gerwani women hunted over alleged Lubang Buaya involvement, with media stories of erotic dances and genital mutilation made credible by patriarchal culture. Short reflective piece.

GA-02678 2016 rel B

Final Report of the IPT 1965: Findings and Documents (web text, 2016)

Final Report of the IPT 1965: Findings and Documents (Web Text, 2016)

Web edition of the final report of the seven judges of the International People's Tribunal 1965 (The Hague, Nov 2015; report 20 July 2016): finds Indonesia responsible for crimes against humanity, including sexual violence and hate propaganda, and the US, UK and Australia complicit.

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-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-02973 2019 rel B

Mit Musik das Schweigen brechen (Anett Keller, südostasien, 2019)

Breaking the silence with music (Anett Keller, 2019)

Anett Keller's 2019 südostasien feature (German) on music breaking silence about 1965: Genjer-genjer and its composer Muhammad Arief, Lekra composer Subronto Atmodjo, New Order policy, and post-1998 projects. Context on music and memory.

GA-02668 2020 rel B

Hari Kesaktian Pancasila, 1 Oktober 1965 (foto diorama, 2020)

Hari Kesaktian Pancasila, 1 October 1965 (Diorama Photograph, 2020)

Photograph (24 Nov 2020) of a museum diorama of the recovery of the generals' bodies from the Lubang Buaya well, with frogman figure, coffins and red-bereted soldiers. Visual record of the official Lubang Buaya display.

GA-02984 2020 rel B

The Treachery on YouTube: The Politics of Memory on New Media in Indonesia

The Treachery on YouTube: Politics of Memory on New Media in Indonesia (Parahita and Yulianto, 2020)

Journal article by Gilang Desti Parahita and Vissia Ita Yulianto (Archipel 99, 2020, pp. 47-73) on how YouTube reproduces the New Order's 'Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI' as monumental memory while alternative 1965 films circulate far less. Gerwani appears on p. 63: filmmaker Lexy Rambadetta, after meeting former Gerwani membe

GA-02285 2020-10-03 Tempo rel B licensed

Sinema Persahabatan Perempuan Eks Tapol ('You and I')

Tempo, 3 October 2020: Cinema of friendship between women ex-prisoners ('You and I')

Tempo feature (3 Oct 2020) on Fanny Chotimah's documentary 'You and I' (DMZ festival award) about Solo ex-political prisoners Kaminah and Kusdalini, Pemuda Rakyat/Gita Patria choir members detained in 1965 and later rejected by family; contrasts it with the Pengkhianatan film's razor-blade scene and the Plantungan docu

GA-02287 2021-05-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Kehidupan Kembali Rukiah

Tempo, 1 May 2021: Rukiah's second life

Tempo feature (1 May 2021) on publisher Ultimus (Bandung) reissuing works by woman writer S. Rukiah, banned after 1965 because she was jailed as a Lekra activist: 'Kejatuhan dan Hati' and 'Tandus' (2017), children's book 'Pak Supi' (2018), and nine more children's titles found in libraries. Gerwani is not mentioned.