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GA-01076 1965-10-07 Het Rotterdamsch Parool rel A

Film van moord op generaals

Film of murder of generals

Het Rotterdamsch Parool/ANP report (7 Oct 1965, p.1): Jakarta television showed a film of the exhumation of seven officers from the well at Lubang Buaya, with Suharto, voice trembling, saying the bodies were found near the air-force base training Pemuda Rakjat men and 'Gerwani' (for women) volunteers. A female voluntee

GA-01382 1965-10-07 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel A

Djakarta zag gruwelijke tv-film over opgraving lijken van generaals (Jakarta saw gruesome TV film of the exhumation of the generals' bodies)

Jakarta saw gruesome TV film of exhumation of generals' bodies

Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (7 Oct 1965): Jakarta TV shows exhumation of the generals' mutilated bodies from the Lubang Buaya well; Suharto says they were found near the air-force base where Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani volunteers were trained, citing an arrested female volunteer from Cirebon. Also the generals' funeral and

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-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