A Traditional Leader in a Time of Change: the Kijaji and Ulama in West Java (Horikoshi, 1976)
Hiroko Horikoshi's 1976 University of Illinois anthropology PhD thesis on kijaji and ulama as traditional leaders in a West Java (Priangan, Cipari) Islamic village, covering kinship, rural economy, the life cycle, the ulama as educators and legal experts, and kijaji charisma. It has almost nothing on Gerwani: a single
Wieringa's 1993 article comparing Gerwani and PKK: Gerwani's growth from 500 Gerwis members in 1950 to a claimed 3 million, its campaigns, an eyewitness account of Lubang Buaya and the army's slander, ideology and a composite life history. Early comparative study.
Pohlman (2017) chapter on how women whose husbands were killed or detained in 1965-66 secured daily survival for decades under ET stamps and boycotts, with case studies including Ibu Arum, a plantation labourer. Women's post-violence survival.
Social and economic life of ex-tapol in South Blitar 1968-2000 (Masruroh et al., 2022)
2022 article by a Universitas Jember team on ex-political prisoners in South Blitar 1968-2000: weekly reporting, loss of civil rights (1.58 million excluded from the 1982 election), the 'ET' ID code and bans on marrying soldiers. Context on post-release control.
Grace Leksana's 2023 open-access monograph on Donomulyo, South Malang, a 'red area' with a 'hamlet of widows', using army archives and 38 life histories to argue memory of 1965 is 'embedded' in local patronage and class. Local study of remembering.