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GA-01158 1957-04-27 Indische Courant Voor Nederland rel C

Verantwoordelijkheid voor Fonds Kemerdekaan (Responsibility for the Fonds Kemerdekaan)

Responsibility for the Fonds Kemerdekaan

Indische Courant voor Nederland, 27 Apr 1957, p. 3: Hatta's secretary and Sumanang explain that the Fonds Kemerdekaan became the Fonds Nasional under Sumanang, who took responsibility for its gold and silver jewellery used for guerrilla funding in 1948-49. S.K. Trimurti is cited as able to confirm that her husband Saju

GA-02227 1972-01-01 Tempo rel C licensed

Soal Pertapolan (Soal tapol)

Tempo, 1972: The political prisoner problem

Tempo article (online archive, dated 1972) on the political prisoner (tapol) problem: Archbishop Leo Soekoto urges society to help, Amnesty and the Red Cross press Jakarta, Buru resettlement of about 5,000 Group B prisoners is presented as the best option, and officials still see ex-PKI as a threat. No Gerwani content.

GA-00588 1972-06-21 ANP Radiobulletin rel C

ANP Nieuwsbericht, 21-06-1972 (Women to Buru)

ANP news report, 21 June 1972 (Women to Buru)

ANP radio bulletin, 21 June 1972: 700 Indonesian women and their children will join husbands detained on Buru, where 10,000 alleged communist men have been held for three years. Suharto allowed family reunification, limited to one child per woman; more groups to follow. Gerwani not named but relevant to the fate of pol

GA-03676 1977-05-21 Yayasan Idayu photo albums, Perpusnas Khastara 582249 rel C

Meeting of women fighters at the Kebangkitan Nasional building, 21 May 1977 (image 07)

Meeting of women fighters at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, 21 May 1977 (Idayu photo album)

Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), image 07 of a series on the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters (pertemuan wanita pejuang) at the Kebangkitan Nasional building, Jakarta. No text or caption could be read, so people shown are not identified; no Gerwani link is evident.

GA-03678 1977-05-21 Yayasan Idayu photo albums, Perpusnas Khastara 582249 rel C

Meeting of women fighters at the Kebangkitan Nasional building, 21 May 1977 (image 09)

Meeting of women fighters at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, 21 May 1977 (Idayu photo album)

Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), image 09 of a series on the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters (pertemuan wanita pejuang) at the Kebangkitan Nasional building, Jakarta. No text or caption could be read, so people shown are not identified; no Gerwani link is evident.

GA-02709 1978-06 TAPOL rel C

TAPOL Bulletin No. 28, June 1978

TAPOL Bulletin no. 28 (London, June 1978): arms sales and Mondale's visit, 1978 student crackdown (Yogyakarta), W.S. Rendra's arrest, conditions of the 1977 releases, psychotests of detainees, the Latief trial. A letter from an East Java ex-prisoner describes the 'bon' killings of 1966–69 and a Malang women's prison ho

GA-01539 1978-07-27 The Times rel C licensed

Jakarta releases 8,000 political prisoners (The Times, 27 Juli 1978)

Jakarta releases 8,000 political prisoners (The Times, 27 July 1978)

The Times, 27 July 1978, p.6, whole page of overseas news; the relevant item reports (Bandung, 26 July) that more than 8,000 political prisoners, communists jailed since the 1965 coup attempt, were released across Indonesia, about 4,000 in Bandung. They were 'B'-class prisoners who could have been tried; Colonel Sardjo

GA-02711 1979-06 TAPOL rel C

TAPOL Bulletin No. 34, June 1979

TAPOL Bulletin no. 34 (London, June 1979, 20 pp.): exposes inconsistencies in KOPKAMTIB release figures, resettlement camps in Kalimantan and Buru, the student trials, release oath and ex-tapol discrimination, the Nijmegen psycho-test cover-up, TAPOL's research on 366 1965 trials, IGGI aid. Gerwani is not named; one it

GA-02231 1980-10-25 Tempo rel C licensed

Kecaman untuk tapol (Kecaman untuk tapol)

Tempo, 25 October 1980: Criticism of Tapol (Carmel Budiardjo vs Derek Davies)

Tempo piece (25 Oct 1980) on the polemic between British activist Carmel Budiardjo, editor of the Tapol bulletin in London, and Far Eastern Economic Review editor Derek Davies, who criticised her past communist links and new sponsors. Concerns advocacy for ex-G30S prisoners; no Gerwani content.

GA-02716 1982-09 TAPOL rel C

TAPOL Bulletin No. 53, September 1982

TAPOL Bulletin no. 53 (London, September 1982, 24 pp.): new Army 'Board' to monitor ex-tapols and Sudomo's remarks on 33,000 B and 540,000 C category people under supervision, an editorial against 65 pending death sentences (Munir, Ruslan Wijayasastra), West Papua testimonies, East Timor resettlement, arms sales, Sunar

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-01333 1988-04-30 NRC Handelsblad rel C

De Chinees: Op schoolfeesten waren we gelijk, dat was modern (The Chinese: At school parties we were equal, that was modern)

The Chinese: at school parties we were equal, that was modern (Go Gien Tjwan)

Interview with Dr Go Gien Tjwan in NRC Handelsblad's 'Hun Indië' series (30 Apr 1988): memories of peranakan Chinese life in colonial Malang, racial hierarchy, schooling, Chinese revival in the 1930s and student politics at Batavia under Wertheim. Background on Chinese Indonesians; no Gerwani content.

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-02724 1995-12 TAPOL rel C

TAPOL Bulletin No. 132, Desember 1995

TAPOL Bulletin No. 132, December 1995

TAPOL Bulletin no. 132 (December 1995), London-based human rights newsletter, mostly on East Timor (Xanana Gusmao interview, embassy asylum bids), Sri-Bintang Pamungkas's trial, labour unrest and Freeport. Relevant to 1965: 'The spectre haunting Suharto' on the regime's 'formless organisations' communist myth (p.13-16)

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-02690 2000 rel C

Beberapa Catatan tentang Agenda Rekonsiliasi (YPKP, 18 Februari 2000)

Some Notes on the Reconciliation Agenda (YPKP, 18 Feb 2000)

YPKP statement (18 Feb 2000) on the reconciliation agenda, arguing reconciliation must include all victims, not elite compromise, and setting twelve agenda items including exposing G30S sponsors and trying perpetrators of the massacres. Victims' foundation position paper.

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-02771 2016 rel C

Dialita, live di LBH Jakarta, Belok Kiri Festival, 2016

Dialita Live at LBH Jakarta, Belok Kiri Festival, 2016

Live audio (12:06), 2016, of the Dialita choir of women survivors of 1965 and relatives performing at LBH Jakarta during the Belok Kiri (Turn Left) Festival. Documents survivors' song as public memory work. Description only; no repertoire listed.

GA-02769 2017 rel C

Kivlan Zen menyemprot Bedjo Untung (YPKP 1965) di ILC, tvOne, 2017

Kivlan Zen Attacks Bedjo Untung (YPKP 1965) on Indonesia Lawyers Club, tvOne, 2017

12-minute clip of tvOne's Indonesia Lawyers Club (2017), episode 'PKI, Hantu atau Nyata?'. Split-screen debate between Bedjo Untung of YPKP 1965 and Kivlan Zen, who per the title attacks him. Shows contemporary anti-communist hostility toward 1965 survivors' advocacy. Description only.

GA-02966 2020 rel C

Filmed Memories of 1965 (Elsa Clavé, Archipel 99, 2020)

Filmed Memories of 1965 (Elsa Clavé, 2020)

Elsa Clave's introduction (Archipel 99, 2020) to a dossier on 1965 and cinema, arguing memory remains institutionalised in museums and monuments and stigma of communism is easily manipulated, as in the 2017 attack on LBH Jakarta. Context on film and memory.

GA-02299 2022-08-20 Tempo rel C licensed

Memoar Ketiga Mia Bustam (Belajar Hidup Tak Dendam dari Mia Bustam)

Tempo, 20 August 2022: Mia Bustam's third memoir (learning not to hold grudges)

Tempo feature (20 Aug 2022, Dian Yuliastuti and Seno Joko Suyono) on the launch of Mia Bustam's third memoir, 'Kelindan Asa dan Kenyataan'. It recounts her arrest in Yogyakarta on 23 Nov 1965, 13 years' detention without trial (Vredeburg, Wirogunan, Plantungan, Bulu) for Lekra membership, release in 1978, and her later

GA-02304 2024-12-10 Tempo rel C licensed

Memoar Keempat Mia Bustam: Gambaran Perempuan Tangguh

Tempo.co, 10 December 2024: Mia Bustam's fourth memoir, portrait of a resilient woman

Tempo.co report (10 Dec 2024, Istiqomatul Hayati and Ihsan Reliubun) on the launch of Mia Bustam's fourth memoir, 'Mutiara Kisah Masa Lalu' (Ultimus, 7 Dec 2024), completing her tetralogy. It gives her biography, arrest on 23 Nov 1965, 13 years' detention (including Plantungan) as a Lekra member, and her children's acc

GA-02305 2024-12-10 Tempo rel C licensed

Mutiara Tetralogi Mia Bustam: Cinta Pertama, Perceraian, dan Penjara

Tempo.co, 10 December 2024: Pearls of Mia Bustam's tetralogy - first love, divorce and prison

Tempo.co report (10 Dec 2024, Istiqomatul Hayati and Ihsan Reliubun) on Mia Bustam's four memoirs: 'Sudjojono dan Aku' (written from 1985, on her marriage and divorce, edited by Hersri Setiawan), 'Dari Kamp ke Kamp' (13 years' detention), 'Kelindan Asa dan Kenyataan' and 'Mutiara Kisah Masa Lalu'. Her children explain

GA-02899 2025 rel C

I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: A Life Experience of a Former 1965-1966 Political Prisoner in Indonesia (Hidayat, 2025)

I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: life of a former 1965-66 political prisoner (Hidayat, 2025)

2025 single-case phenomenological study of an 86-year-old male former political prisoner (interviews via KontraS, 2024): union worker, arrest in 1966, torture, forced labour at Tangerang, Nusakambangan and Buru, later Aksi Kamisan activism. Male testimony; context only.

GA-02312 2025-11-16 Tempo rel C licensed

Arsip Langka Seniman Lekra Mia Bustam (Pameran Tunggal Biennale Jogja)

Tempo, 16 November 2025: Rare archive of Lekra artist Mia Bustam (Biennale Jogja solo exhibition)

Tempo magazine report (16 Nov 2025, Shinta Maharani and Iwan Kurniawan) on the Biennale Jogja solo exhibition of Lekra artist Mia Bustam at Benteng Vredeburg (opened 6 Oct 2025), based on Astrid Reza's thesis. It covers her arrest, nearly 14 years' detention (Plantungan gardener), embroidery, paintings, Api Kartini mag

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)