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GA-02941 2019 rel B

Purifying Indonesia, Purifying Women: Komnas Perempuan and the 1965-1968 Anti-Communist Violence (van Doorn-Harder, 2019)

Purifying Indonesia, Purifying Women: Komnas Perempuan and the 1965-1968 Violence (van Doorn-Harder, 2019)

Nelly van Doorn-Harder's 2019 article on how Komnas Perempuan took up 1965 women survivors (2006 delegation, 2007 report), arguing the violence and stigma were justified as 'purification' and Gerwani women were cast as 'the most impure of all'. Gender and religious logic of impurity.

GA-02906 2022 rel B licensed

Remembering through Fragmented Narratives: Third Generations and the 1965 Violence (Leksana and Subekti, 2022)

Remembering through Fragmented Narratives: third generation and the 1965 violence (Leksana and Subekti, 2022)

Leksana and Subekti (2022) on how 1965 memory reaches third-generation members of three survivor families, arguing family silence is a survival strategy preserving memory via fragmented narratives, mysticism and depoliticisation; one case has Gerwani grandparents.