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GA-00612 1950-08-22 De Locomotief rel C

Zangconcours (Singing competition)

Singing competition

De Locomotief, 22 Aug 1950: announcement of a Semarang singing competition in September, with Annie Landau, Ribut Rawit and Sulami among the contestants; proceeds for a Chinese orphanage, invalids and the Indonesian war cemetery. Gerwis is not mentioned and this Sulami is probably not the Gerwani leader; identity uncon

GA-01251 1957-02-08 Java-Bode rel C

Expositie Aziatische mode (Exposition of Asian fashion)

Exposition of Asian fashion

Java-Bode, 8 February 1957, p. 2: report on an exposition of national costumes and music by Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asian women's organisations at the Plaza Hotel, New York; Indonesian participants included Sukanti Surjotjondro, Nelly Kawilarang and Sulami Sujud. A second snippet about a clandestine bank on Bangka is

GA-02844 1958 WIDF rel C licensed

Good Recipes around the World (WIDF, 1958)

WIDF magazine 1958, International Women's Day feature 'Good Recipes around the World': tips on preparing vegetables and recipes from several countries, including two Indonesian dishes (beef fried with cloves and atjar cucumber salad), plus Bulgarian, Italian, Chinese. No Gerwani or political content.

GA-00068 1959 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Menyambut Hari Nasional

Welcoming National Day

Api Kartini (1959) editorial column 'Celebrating National Day': after Indonesia's 17 August, urges readers to welcome the national days of friendly states upholding the Bandung principles. Features the Democratic Republic of Vietnam's 2 September National Day with a poem by Ho Chi Minh. Solidarity propaganda with Asian

GA-02852 1961 WIDF rel C licensed

In National Colours (WIDF, 1961): Asian and African postage stamps

In National Colours: Asian and African postage stamps (WIDF, 1961)

WIDF magazine 1961 stamp feature 'In National Colours' on postage stamps of newly independent Asian and African states, commemorating liberation, public works, agrarian reform, education and women (Mongolia, Korea, Ceylon, UAR, Vietnam, China). An Indonesian stamp is listed among liberation-themed issues. Gerwani is no

GA-01074 1961-06-27 Het Rotterdamsch Parool rel C

Berlijn ontzet door schandaal op 'ernstige' Berlinale (met bespreking van de Indonesische film 'Dappere vrouwen')

Berlin shocked by scandal at 'serious' Berlinale (with review of Indonesian film 'Brave Women')

Het Rotterdamsch Parool report (27 Jun 1961, p.4) from the Berlinale: a gossip piece on an actress's torn dress, then mocking review of an Indonesian film 'Dappere vrouwen' (about Indonesian women's patriotism in the struggle for freedom), screened outside the festival, in which Dutch colonists are played by Indonesian

GA-00141 1962 rel C

Jang Dihadapi Panitia Sensor Film Republik Indonesia, 1962

What the Indonesian Film Censorship Committee Faces, 1962

Article by Utami Suryadarma, chair of the Film Censorship Committee, reprinted in Varia (17 Jan 1962), explaining the committee's new approach to Western, socialist and Afro-Asian film imports under free-and-active foreign policy.

GA-02803 1963 M. L. Huber rel C licensed

INDONESIA - a new state with an ancient civilization (M. L. Huber)

Indonesia: a new state with an ancient civilization (M. L. Huber, 1963)

Travel essay by M. L. Huber in Women of the Whole World, 1963, on a car journey from Jakarta toward East Java and Bandung, with a sweeping history of Indonesian civilisation, colonialism, the Round Table agreement and 1957 nationalisations, in a pro-Sukarno-era socialist-bloc framing. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-03544 1963-05-24 Berita Harian rel C

Buku puisi di-haramkan (PKI member's poetry book banned in the Federation)

Poetry book banned (PKI member's book banned in the Federation), Berita Harian, 24 May 1963

Berita Harian (Singapore/Malaya), 24 May 1963: Kuala Lumpur report that the Federation government has banned 'Puisi Progresif Indonesia', a book written and translated by a PKI member, 'Bintang S...' (snippet cut off). The sweep guesses the author is Bintang Suradi, possibly the husband of Gerwani member Suwarti Bintan

GA-02323 2007 Tempo rel C licensed

Wajah Aidit di Seluloid

Tempo, 1 October 2007: Aidit's face on celluloid

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.

GA-02755 2016 rel C

Dialita, Ujian (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (5:43) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Frau. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).

GA-02756 2016 rel C

Dialita, Salam Harapan (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (2:44) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Cholil Mahmud. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).

GA-02757 2016 rel C

Dialita, Di Kaki-Kaki Tangkuban Perahu (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (5:48) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Sisir Tanah, Frau and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).

GA-02758 2016 rel C

Dialita, Padi Untuk India (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (2:28) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Sisir Tanah. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).

GA-02759 2016 rel C

Dialita, Taman Bunga Plantungan (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (6:04) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Kroncongan Agawe Santoso. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083). The title ref

GA-02760 2016 rel C

Dialita, Viva GANEFO (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (2:28) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Sisir Tanah. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083). The title refers to GANEFO

GA-02761 2016 rel C

Dialita, Lagu Untuk Anakku (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (3:37) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Cholil Mahmud. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).

GA-02762 2016 rel C

Dialita, Kupandang Langit (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (4:35) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Frau and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).

GA-02763 2016 rel C

Dialita, Dunia Milik Kita (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (2:12) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Cholil Mahmud and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wave YESNO083).

GA-02764 2016 rel C

Dialita, Asia Afrika Bersatu (Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Audio track (3:55) from the 2016 album 'Dunia Milik Kita' by Dialita, a choir of 1965 survivors and relatives; guest artist(s): Nadya Hatta, Prihatmoko Catur and Lintang Radittya. The album records songs written by women political prisoners and former Gerwani/leftist circles in the 1960s-70s, newly arranged (Yes No Wav

GA-02768 2016 rel C

One Hour of Indonesian Communist Music (kompilasi)

One Hour of Indonesian Communist Music (Compilation, 2016)

One-hour (55:48) audio compilation of songs associated with the Indonesian communist movement and the Sukarno era, compiled and uploaded by GETchan to the Internet Archive in 2016. Description only; no track list or transcript, so Gerwani content cannot be confirmed.

GA-02964 2019 rel C

Postmemory dalam Novel Tapol Karya Ngarto Februana (Assa, 2019)

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.

GA-02753 2020 rel C

Bedjo Untung memainkan Genjer-Genjer (klip video tweet)

Bedjo Untung Plays Genjer-Genjer (Video Clip, 2020)

45-second phone video clip posted on Twitter by Vincent Bevins on 18 May 2020. Per its title, Bedjo Untung, chair of the 1965 victims' association YPKP 65, plays 'Genjer-genjer' on an upright piano at home while another older man moves to the music. Illustrates the song's use in survivors' memory work.

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-02971 2020 rel C

Transmisi Memori dan Wacana Rekonsiliasi dalam Cerpen Perempuan Sinting di Dapur karya Ugoran Prasad: Kajian Postmemory (Jati, 2020)

Memory transmission and reconciliation discourse in Ugoran Prasad's short story 'Perempuan Sinting di Dapur' (Jati, 2020

2020 UGM article applying postmemory to Ugoran Prasad's short story 'Perempuan Sinting di Dapur', in which a dying man's guilt over slandering a widow's husband as an infidel in 1965 is transmitted to a young narrator. Literary context; Gerwani not named.

GA-02979 2020 rel C

Forty Years of Silence: The Insanity of Society

Forty Years of Silence: The Insanity of Society (Marching, 2020)

Film review by Soe Tjen Marching (Archipel 99, 2020, pp. 35-40) of Robert Lemelson's documentary '40 Years of Silence' (2009), following four families in Bali and Central Java affected by 1965-66, with attention to trauma, stigma ('child of communists') and the New Order propaganda film. Gerwani and the sexual slander

GA-02286 2021-04-14 Tempo rel C licensed

Kisahkan 2 Perempuan Mantan Tapol, Film You and I Tayang di Bioskop Online

Tempo.co, 14 April 2021: Film 'You and I' about two women ex-prisoners streams online

Short Tempo.co news item (14 Apr 2021) that the documentary 'You and I' by Fanny Chotimah, about ex-political prisoners Kaminah and Kusdalini, streams on Bioskop Online from 9 April 2021 after winning the Festival Film Indonesia 2020 documentary prize and the DMZ Asian Perspective Award. Mostly promotional; Gerwani is