Purifying Indonesia, Purifying Women: Komnas Perempuan and the 1965-1968 Violence (van Doorn-Harder, 2019)
Nelly van Doorn-Harder's 2019 article on how Komnas Perempuan took up 1965 women survivors (2006 delegation, 2007 report), arguing the violence and stigma were justified as 'purification' and Gerwani women were cast as 'the most impure of all'. Gender and religious logic of impurity.
Wieringa and Katjasungkana's 2019 Routledge monograph, from the IPT 1965 prosecution report, arguing the 'real coup' was the ousting of Sukarno through about a million killings enabled by propaganda about Gerwani's alleged sexual perversion; chapter 6 treats two sexual moral panics. Key analysis.
Routledge volume (2019, ed. Wieringa, Melvin, Pohlman) gathering research behind the IPT 1965: coup, torture, Buru enslavement, sexual slavery and forced marriage, exile, mass graves, Western complicity and youth projects. Foreword by judge Zak Yacoob.
Postmemory in the novel Tapol by Ngarto Februana (Assa, 2019)
Anna Assa's 2019 literary thesis applying Hirsch's postmemory to Ngarto Februana's novel Tapol (2002), arguing the author received 1965 memory affiliatively from three elderly ex-prisoners. Literary context; Gerwani not central.