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GA-01330 1973-09-22 NRC Handelsblad rel C

Hollands Dagboek, donderdag 13 sept. (Dutch Diary, Thursday 13 Sept.)

Dutch Diary, Thursday 13 Sept. (Willem Oltmans)

Willem Oltmans's 'Hollands Dagboek' in NRC Handelsblad (22 Sep 1973), entries 13-20 Sept. Covers his New Guinea/Luns campaign, Hatta, Pertamina corruption, Chile 1973 compared to Indonesia 1965 mass murder, and Nasution's letters about Aidit shared by Dewi Sukarno. Lists imprisoned Indonesian writers and journalists. N

GA-02232 1984-10-06 Tempo rel C licensed

Kisah-Kisah Oktober, 1965

Tempo, 6 October 1984: Stories of October 1965

Long Tempo feature (6 Oct 1984), New Order-era 'scattered stories' of 30 Sept-1 Oct 1965 told by witnesses: Catherine Panjaitan, Dewi Sukarno, Bambang Wijanarko, Mangil, Roeslan Abdulgani, Sugandhi, Salim Said, Syu'bah Asa. Frames events as a PKI coup and describes army/RRI takeover. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-01069 1995-05-06 Het Parool rel C

Loyaal (over het ontstaan van het Indonesische nationalisme)

Loyal (on the origins of Indonesian nationalism)

Het Parool (6 May 1995) continuation of the feature on the Indonesian road to independence. Francisca Fanggidaej recalls first hearing the word 'Indonesia' from a cousin; historians Harry Poeze and Pieter Droogleever and veterans Gondo Pratomo and Aky Djoehana discuss early nationalism, Perhimpunan Indonesia, ethical p

GA-00484 1995-07-08 Algemeen Dagblad rel C

De verkeerde gok van de Indo’s (Taruhan keliru orang Indo)

The Indos' wrong gamble

Algemeen Dagblad feature by André Beijen (1995-07-08), first in a series before the Dutch royal visit: Indisch Dutch who stayed in Indonesia, now poor in Medan, and their grievances over Dutch benefits. Recalls the 1958 Sumatra rebellion and 'thousands murdered' in Medan after 1965 (Smit). No Gerwani content.

GA-00749 1995-08-12 De Volkskrant rel C

Folio: Kanalisering van een nationaal narcisme (Channelling a national narcissism)

Folio: Channelling a national narcissism (Blokker column on Indies books)

Jan Blokker column in De Volkskrant (12 Aug 1995) reviewing Dutch books on the Indies and the colonial past. Mrs. S.K. Trimurti appears only as an interviewee quoted in H.C. Beynon's "Verboden voor honden en inlanders", on living with Inggit after Sukarno's 1933 arrest. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-02688 2000 rel C

Kesaksianku tentang G30S (Soebandrio, sekitar 2000)

My Testimony about G30S (Soebandrio, c. 2000)

Testimony of Dr Soebandrio, Sukarno's deputy prime minister, written after his 1995 release, arguing the 30 September Movement was a provocation exploited by Suharto's circle. Elite memoir; Gerwani is peripheral context.

GA-03598 2007-10-01 Tempo (Edisi 1 Oktober 2007) rel C licensed

Malam Terakhir: Setelah Lampu Depan Dimatikan (Tempo, 1 Oct 2007)

The last night: after the headlights went out (Aidit's last night at home, Tempo, 2007)

Tempo piece (1 October 2007) reconstructing D.N. Aidit's last night at home, 30 September 1965, from his son Ilham and brother Murad. His wife Dr Soetanti Aidit angrily quarrels with him and urges him not to leave; he goes anyway. The article sets out the contested versions of where he went that night. Soetanti appears

GA-03058 2015 rel C licensed

Ripples, Echoes, and Reverberations: 1965 and Now in Indonesia (PhD Berkeley, 2015)

Ripples, Echoes, and Reverberations: 1965 and Now in Indonesia (Stroud, 2015)

Martha Stroud's 2015 UC Berkeley/UCSF medical-anthropology dissertation, based on fieldwork in Yogyakarta (2010-12), examines how the 1965-66 killings shape daily life through propaganda, surveillance, stigma, silence and justice. Gerwani appears mainly as the object of New Order propaganda: the Lubang Buaya mutilation

GA-03032 2026 rel C licensed

Counter-Monuments: Art and Memory in Post-1965 Indonesia

Counter-Monuments: Art and Memory in Post-1965 Indonesia (Bontrager, 2026)

MA thesis (University of Georgia, 2026) by Alyx L. Bontrager on how Indonesian artists Rangga Purbaya, Dadang Christanto and Leyla Stevens use testimony, embodiment and place as memory activism against the silencing of the 1965-66 genocide, theorised as 'counter-monuments'. Gerwani appears only in passing: ch. 2 (p. 7)