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GA-02759 2016 rel C

Dialita, Taman Bunga Plantungan (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (6:04) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Kroncongan Agawe Santoso. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083). The title ref

GA-02760 2016 rel C

Dialita, Viva GANEFO (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (2:28) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Sisir Tanah. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083). The title refers to GANEFO

GA-02761 2016 rel C

Dialita, Lagu Untuk Anakku (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (3:37) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Cholil Mahmud. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).

GA-02762 2016 rel C

Dialita, Kupandang Langit (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (4:35) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Frau and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).

GA-02763 2016 rel C

Dialita, Dunia Milik Kita (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (2:12) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Cholil Mahmud and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).

GA-02764 2016 rel C

Dialita, Asia Afrika Bersatu (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (3:55) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Nadya Hatta, Prihatmoko Catur and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wav

GA-02771 2016 rel C

Dialita, live di LBH Jakarta, Belok Kiri Festival, 2016

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.

GA-02280 2016-02-08 Tempo rel A licensed

Mintardjo dan Sepenggal Cerita Gerwis

Tempo, 8 February 2016: Mintardjo and a fragment of Gerwis history

Tempo review (8 Feb 2016) of Elisabeth Ida Mulyani's video 'Supervivere' on 1965 exiles (Mintardjo and nine others in the Netherlands and Sweden), shown in Yogyakarta with a charcoal portrait 'Suti, Plight of Gerwani' by Dewi Candraningrum. It describes Suti, 95, founder of Gerwis Musuk/Boyolali in 1952, a literacy cam

GA-02282 2016-05-25 Tempo rel A licensed

Bekas Ketua Gerwani Meninggal Dunia, Pelayat Diawasi Petugas Intelejen

Tempo.co, 25 May 2016: Former Gerwani chair dies; mourners watched by intelligence officers

Tempo.co obituary (25 May 2016, Abdul Djalil Hakim) of Putmainah, 90, former Blitar Gerwani chair and DPRD-GR member for the PKI faction, called the last Gerwani branch head. It covers her family background (father a Red Sarekat Islam leader killed at Madiun 1948), ties to Sukarno's family, and mourners including a Ban

GA-02672 2017 rel C

Data dan Fakta Kebangkitan PKI (ceramah audio)

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

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-02769 2017 rel C

Kivlan Zen menyemprot Bedjo Untung (YPKP 1965) di ILC, tvOne, 2017

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.

GA-02283 2018-12-28 Tempo rel A licensed

Mengintip Isi Buku Gerwani yang Disita TNI karena Dituduh PKI

Tempo.co, 28 December 2018: A look inside the Gerwani book seized by the TNI as 'PKI'

Tempo.co report (28 Dec 2018) on the seizure by TNI and police in Kediri of 19 books from a bookshop owner, including Amurwani Dwi Lestariningsih's 'Gerwani: Kisah Tapol Wanita dari Kamp Plantungan' (Gramedia 2011), which describes torture and sexual violence against women prisoners. The owner says the books are mainst

GA-02284 2020-06-15 Tempo rel A licensed

[Fakta atau Hoaks] Benarkah Ribka Tjiptaning Sebut Ibu Jokowi Ketua Gerwani PKI?

Tempo.co fact-check, 15 June 2020: Did Ribka Tjiptaning call Jokowi's mother a Gerwani-PKI chair?

Tempo.co fact-check (15 June 2020) debunking a Facebook meme that PDI-P MP Ribka Tjiptaning said Jokowi's mother chaired Gerwani PKI. Ribka never said it (she wrote 'Aku Bangga Jadi Anak PKI', 2002) and Jokowi's mother Sudjiatmi was no Gerwani leader; a biography by Wawan Mas'udi and Ramdhon is cited. Shows Gerwani inv

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-02286 2021-04-14 Tempo rel C licensed

Kisahkan 2 Perempuan Mantan Tapol, Film You and I Tayang di Bioskop Online

Tempo.co, 14 April 2021: Film 'You and I' about two women ex-prisoners streams online

Short Tempo.co news item (14 Apr 2021) that the documentary 'You and I' by Fanny Chotimah, about ex-political prisoners Kaminah and Kusdalini, streams on Bioskop Online from 9 April 2021 after winning the Festival Film Indonesia 2020 documentary prize and the DMZ Asian Perspective Award. Mostly promotional; Gerwani is

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.

GA-02289 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Beban Trauma Peristiwa 1965 (Mengapa Umi Sardjono tak terbuka mengungkap riwayat Gerwani)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: The burden of trauma of 1965 (why Umi Sardjono was not open about Gerwani's history)

Tempo feature (2 Oct 2021, Dini Pramita and Bagja Hidayat) on why Gerwani chair Umi Sardjono (Suharti Sumodiwiryo) said little after 13 years in Bukit Duri (to 1978). Drawn from Ita Nadia, Ruth Indiah Rahayu, others: she wept at accounts of rape and Sudjinah's injury, 'it is my responsibility'; friendships with Fransis

GA-02294 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Nyanyian Tanda Bahaya (Umi Sardjono di penjara Bukit Duri)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Song of the alarm (Umi Sardjono in Bukit Duri prison)

Tempo feature (2 Oct 2021, Riky Ferdianto and Mustafa Silalahi) on Umi Sardjono in Bukit Duri prison (detained 20 Oct 1965, solitary cell as category A, 'Senayan cluster' with Dahliar, Mudigdio, Salawati Daud, Kartinah Kurdi). Witnesses Mudjiati, Utati, Nani Nurani Affandi describe forced confessions of Lubang Buaya da

GA-02297 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Umi Sardjono dan Hantu Tahunan PKI

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Umi Sardjono and the annual PKI ghost

Tempo column (2 Oct 2021, Budi Setyarso) using Umi Sardjono's life to argue that 1965 history is still painted in black and white. It notes her arrest without trial, Bukit Duri and Plantungan until 1979, Gerwani's origins in Gerwis, about 1.5 million members by 1960, literacy courses, her immigration and marriage-law w

GA-02298 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Umi Sardjono dan Stigma Gerwani (Mengapa Kami Menulis Ulang Riwayat Gerwani dan Umi Sardjono)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Umi Sardjono and the stigma on Gerwani (why we rewrote the history of Gerwani and Umi Sardjono)

Tempo editor's note (2 Oct 2021, Moyang Kasih Dewi Merdeka and Seno Joko Suyono) on why the magazine rewrote Umi Sardjono's life. It describes her silence after release, trauma and fear of surveillance (Wieringa 1981, Pohlman 2005), her arrest at Senayan and Bukit Duri detention, the lack of memoir or traces, and sourc

GA-02318 2021-10-04 Tempo English rel A licensed

Opinion: The Story of Gerwani Leader Umi Sardjono and Communism Phobia (Umi Sardjono and the Annual Ghost)

Tempo English, 4 October 2021: Opinion - Umi Sardjono and communism phobia (the annual ghost)

English edition of the Tempo column 'Umi Sardjono and the Annual Ghost' (4 Oct 2021) arguing that 1965 history is still black and white. It uses Umi Sardjono's life (arrest without trial, Bukit Duri, Plantungan to 1979), Gerwani's Gerwis origins, a mid-1960s membership of 1.5 million, literacy classes, her immigration

GA-02320 2021-10-04 Tempo English rel A licensed

Traumatic Burden of 1965 (Umi Sardjono's Last Years)

Tempo English, 4 October 2021: Traumatic burden of 1965 (Umi Sardjono's last years)

Tempo English cover story 'Traumatic Burden of 1965' (4 Oct 2021, Dini Pramita) on Umi Sardjono's silence and guilt after release in 1978. Ita Fatia Nadia read her a Medan woman's testimony of gang rape and public parading, and showed Sudjinah's X-ray; Umi wept, saying it was her responsibility. It covers her life in t

GA-02321 2021-10-04 Tempo English rel A licensed

Umi Sardjono and Allegations Against Gerwani (Editors' Note)

Tempo English, 4 October 2021: Umi Sardjono and allegations against Gerwani (editors' note)

English edition of the Tempo editors' note 'Umi Sardjono and Allegations Against Gerwani' (4 Oct 2021, Moyang Kasih Dewi Merdeka) introducing the special report. It describes Umi's silence, trauma and fear of surveillance (Wieringa 1981, Pohlman 2005), her arrest at Senayan and detention at Bukit Duri, the absence of m

GA-02299 2022-08-20 Tempo rel C licensed

Memoar Ketiga Mia Bustam (Belajar Hidup Tak Dendam dari Mia Bustam)

Tempo, 20 August 2022: Mia Bustam's third memoir (learning not to hold grudges)

Tempo feature (20 Aug 2022, Dian Yuliastuti and Seno Joko Suyono) on the launch of Mia Bustam's third memoir, 'Kelindan Asa dan Kenyataan'. It recounts her arrest in Yogyakarta on 23 Nov 1965, 13 years' detention without trial (Vredeburg, Wirogunan, Plantungan, Bulu) for Lekra membership, release in 1978, and her later

GA-02300 2022-10-02 Tempo rel B licensed

Memori Mesin Jahit dan Kertas Selundupan (Ingatan Tapol di Plantungan dan Pulau Buru)

Tempo, 2 October 2022: Memory of sewing machines and smuggled paper (political prisoners at Plantungan and Buru)

Tempo report (2 Oct 2022, Dini Pramita and Dody Hidayat) on forced labour and memory of 1965 political prisoners. Yosephina Endang Lestari recalls Plantungan women's camp (sewing unit, Santiaji Pancasila, poor health); Ita F. Nadia describes its five aims including re-domestication of women. Hersri Setiawan (Buru) and