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GA-01626 1989-05-02 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 2 Mei 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (103)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (103): Marsudi's testimony on volunteer training at Luba...

Harian Neraca, 2 Mei 1989, p. 10: instalment 103 of Soegiarso Soerojo's serial. Mahmilub testimony incl. Serma Marsudi (1976) on training 3,000 volunteers from Lekra, PR, Gerwani, CGMI, BTI and others at Lubang Buaya.

GA-01627 1989-05-03 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 3 Mei 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (104)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (104): Biro Khusus, the Gilchrist document and PRC aid

Harian Neraca, 3 Mei 1989, p. 10: instalment 104 of Soegiarso Soerojo's serial. Author's commentary on the Biro Khusus, the Gilchrist document as forgery and PRC aid, with Mahmilub testimony; Gerwani mentioned.

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-01629 1989-10-04 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 4 Oktober 1989: peringatan KAP-Gestapu

Harian Neraca, 4 October 1989: commemoration of KAP-Gestapu

Harian Neraca, 4 Oct 1989, p. 11: Antara retrospective on the founding of KAP-Gestapu on 4 Oct 1965 and the 8 Oct 1965 rally, after which youths burned PKI offices; Gerwani mentioned.

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-01604 1992-01-08 Bernas rel B

Bernas, 8 Januari 1992: 'Pluralisme dan perempuan Indonesia'

Bernas, 8 January 1992: 'Pluralism and Indonesian women'

Bernas (Yogyakarta), 8 Jan 1992, p. 4: essay by a UGM student on Indonesian women's organisations 1945–65, noting sharp Guided Democracy conflict between Gerwani and Kowani culminating in 1965, and criticising later homogenisation.

GA-01631 1994-04-26 Kedaulatan Rakyat rel B

Kedaulatan Rakyat, 26 April 1994: kolom 'Mister Rigen'

Kedaulatan Rakyat, 26 April 1994: 'Mister Rigen' column

Kedaulatan Rakyat (Yogyakarta), 26 Apr 1994, p. 12: satirical column where a professor fears maids' associations are 'infiltrated by the PKI and Gerwani'; the servant answers 'PKI what, Gerwani what?'.

GA-01598 1994-11-09 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 9 November 1994: Buku Putih G30S (bagian 26)

Berita Yudha, 9 November 1994: White Book on G30S (part 26)

Berita Yudha, 9 Nov 1994, p. 4: White Book instalment on Central Java and Yogyakarta, naming Gerwani among PKI mass organisations issuing a support resolution in Wonogiri on 1 Oct 1965; editorial honours Fatmawati.

GA-01584 2000-04-23 Bali Post rel B

Bali Post, 23 April 2000: wawancara Ida Ayu Sutiti Wirati Diwangkara

Bali Post, 23 April 2000: interview with Ida Ayu Sutiti Wirati Diwangkara

Bali Post, 23 Apr 2000, p. 3: interview with Balinese educator and DPRGR member Ida Ayu Sutiti Wirati Diwangkara, who says she represented 'women' in the DPRGR where women's associations like Gerwani were represented; rich on women's education.

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-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-02863 2004 rel B

Gerakan Perempuan di Indonesia dari Masa ke Masa (Muhadjir Darwin, 2004)

Women's Movements in Indonesia through the Ages (Muhadjir Darwin, 2004)

Muhadjir Darwin's survey (March 2004) of Indonesian women's movements from precolonial heroines through the 1928 Women's Congress, Fujinkai, Kowani and the Sukarno-era polygamy campaign against Hartini, to the New Order. Short historical overview.

GA-02934 2008 rel B

Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 (Simpson, 2008)

Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations 1960-1968 (Simpson, 2008)

Bradley Simpson's 2008 diplomatic history of US-Indonesia relations 1960-68, arguing a transnational coalition of Western governments and technocrats laid foundations for a military-led developmental regime and the Johnson administration willingly backed the army. Context; Gerwani not central.

GA-03713 2012 KITLV Press (Verhandelingen 274), Leiden rel B

Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian 1950–1965

Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian 1950-1965 (KITLV Press, 2012)

Edited volume (KITLV Press, Leiden, 2012) by Jennifer Lindsay and Maya H.T. Liem on Indonesian culture and its international links, 1950-65. Gerwani appears only in passing: Michael Bodden's chapter on Lekra theatre says Gerwani, like Lekra and CGMI, was pressed by the PKI in 1964 to declare itself communist (p. 470, c

GA-03714 2012 KITLV Press (Verhandelingen 274), Leiden rel B

Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian 1950–1965

Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian 1950-1965 (KITLV Press, 2012)

Edited volume (KITLV Press, Leiden, 2012) by Jennifer Lindsay and Maya H.T. Liem on Indonesian culture and its international links, 1950-65. Gerwani appears only in passing: Michael Bodden's chapter on Lekra theatre says Gerwani, like Lekra and CGMI, was pressed by the PKI in 1964 to declare itself communist (p. 470, c

GA-02917 2013 rel B

Child-raising, Childbirth and Abortion In Extremis: Women's Stories of Caring for and Losing Children, 1965-1966 (Pohlman, 2013)

Child-raising, Childbirth and Abortion In Extremis: women's stories 1965-1966 (Pohlman, 2013)

Pohlman's 2013 article, from about 150 interviews, on women's stories of pregnancy, childbirth, raising, losing and aborting children during 1965-66 and detention, including cooperative childcare and a former Gerwani leader (Ibu Astuti). Gendered history of survival.

GA-02767 2016 rel B

Merdu yang Dipaksa Sunyi (Arman Dhani, esai pengantar Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Merdu yang Dipaksa Sunyi: Arman Dhani's Introductory Essay to Dunia Milik Kita (2016)

Seven-page liner essay by Arman Dhani, issued with the free download of Dialita's album Dunia Milik Kita (2016), framing it as hearing again voices silenced by 'collective sin' after 1965 and introducing the ten songs and their young arrangers. A guide to the women's choir's repertoire.

GA-02923 2017 rel B

Sexual Violence as Torture (Pohlman, 2017)

Pohlman (2017), lead investigator on sexual crimes for the IPT 1965, argues rape and sexualised torture in 1965-70 detention were crimes against humanity, summarising fifty-eight case files (72% female victims, 85% naming soldiers or military police). Legal framing of sexual torture.

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