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GA-01698 1965-12-06 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 6 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 6 December 1965: speech linking godless knowledge to Lubang Buaya

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 6 Desember 1965. Speech at the Akademi Bahasa Asing Indonesia warning that godless knowledge led PR, CGMI and Gerwani/PKI to 'strip naked and sleep together at Lubang Buaya' because it held that 'women and men are equal'.

GA-01700 1965-12-10 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 10 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 10 December 1965: Chaerul Saleh condemns Lubang Buaya terror, Perwa...

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 10 Desember 1965. Arrest round-up with 'a Gerwani'; Chaerul Saleh condemns the 'terror of Lubang Buaya in which Gerwani took an important part' and announces expulsion of Perwari members also in Gerwani.

GA-00220 1966-10-04 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Oktober 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 October 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Oktober 1966. Front-page item: a women's action front states that the 'barbarous acts of Gerwani/PKI at Lubang Buaya' do not spring from the character of Indonesian women, distancing 'true' women from Gerwani.

GA-00417 1966-10-04 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 4 Oktober 1966

Berita Yudha, 4 October 1966

Berita Yudha, 4 Oktober 1966. Report of a rally of some 3,500 women of KOWANI, KAWI and BPOW at Lubang Buaya (3 Oct) where, led by Ibu Tien Soeharto, they swore to 'eradicate the gerwani/pki mentality'; Ibu Soeharto says they 'practised obscenities without limit'.

GA-00418 1966-10-05 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 5 Oktober 1966: wawancara Ibu Tien Soeharto

Berita Yudha, 5 October 1966: interview with Ibu Tien Soeharto

Berita Yudha, 5 Oktober 1966: wawancara Ibu Tien Soeharto. Armed Forces Day issue with a front-page interview with Ibu Tien Soeharto, 'May our children not inherit the barbarity and immorality of Gerwani', and Perwari conferring 'Penyelamat Revolusi' on Suharto.

GA-00419 1966-10-07 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 7 Oktober 1966

Berita Yudha, 7 October 1966

Berita Yudha, 7 Oktober 1966. KAWI (anti-communist women's action front) issues a four-point statement: Gerwani/PKI 'barbaric acts' do not stem from Indonesian women's character, the 'gerwani/pki mentality' must be eradicated, and West Sumatra should revoke a title.

GA-02995 2013 rel A

Gerwani dan Perjuangan Politik Perempuan (Rio Apinino, IndoPROGRESS, 2013)

Gerwani and women's political struggle (Rio Apinino, IndoPROGRESS, 2013)

Rio Apinino's 2013 IndoPROGRESS review essay of the Indonesian edition of Wieringa's Gerwani study: the film's Lubang Buaya scenes, Gerwis's founding in Semarang on 4 June 1950, PKI influence and the persistent 'whore' stigma. Chapter-by-chapter summary.

GA-03009 2015 rel B

Gerwani dan Pembunuhan Identitas (Lustanto, Jurnal Perempuan, 2015)

Gerwani and the murder of identity (Lustanto, 2015)

Rendi Lustanto's 2015 Jurnal Perempuan essay on the 50th anniversary of 1965: Gerwani women hunted over alleged Lubang Buaya involvement, with media stories of erotic dances and genital mutilation made credible by patriarchal culture. Short reflective piece.

GA-02941 2019 rel B

Purifying Indonesia, Purifying Women: Komnas Perempuan and the 1965-1968 Anti-Communist Violence (van Doorn-Harder, 2019)

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.