Tempo feature (1 Oct 2007) on how D.N. Aidit was portrayed in the New Order film Pengkhianatan G-30-S/PKI, via interviews with Syu'bah Asa, Danarto, Amarzan Ismail Hamid and Jajang C. Noer. Notes thin research and an invented chain-smoking Aidit; context for film propaganda.
Tempo package (1 Oct 2012) on The Act of Killing: Ariel Heryanto's review calling it the most important film on Indonesia, and a profile of Anwar Congo (Medan, Pemuda Pancasila) with his wife Salmah and Joshua Oppenheimer's comments. It stresses perpetrators' impunity and ties to officials. Gerwani is not mentioned.
Editor's introduction (Tempo, 1 Oct 2012) to the special edition on 1965 executioners, prompted by The Act of Killing and Anwar Congo. It sets out the aims (view from perpetrators, Banality of Evil, verification of sources), mentions Sikka, Palembang and the camps at Buru, Plantungan and Moncongloe as an Indonesian Gul
Ariel Heryanto's essay (Indonesia at Melbourne, 16 Jan 2018) arguing the state's own story of the 30 September Movement, disseminated since 1966, is the 'primary hoax' behind later 'secondary' ones. Commentary on state disinformation.
Historia.id article (preview only, 2022) on the song Genjer-genjer and its composer Mohammad Arief, countering the film's claim that Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat sang it by saying it reflects Japanese-occupation suffering and that Arief was a santri's son. Partial text.
Tempo.co profile (22 May 2023, Febyana Siagian and S. Dian Andryanto) of SK Trimurti, journalist and Indonesia's first labour minister. It covers her birth in Boyolali (1912), teacher training, Rukun Wanita, Partindo in Bandung, press work, witnessing the BPUPKI and the 1945 proclamation push, KNIP membership, and the