The Flight of Three Gerwani Women from Bukit Duri Prison (Merdeka.com, 2012)
Merdeka.com feature (2012; YPKP repost 2017) visiting the demolished Bukit Duri women's prison: neighbours recall a 1975 escape by three alleged Gerwani women, and journalist Sri Sulistyawati describes eleven years held there without trial. Memory of a women's detention site.
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.
Pohlman (2017), lead investigator on sexual crimes for the IPT 1965, argues rape and sexualised torture in 1965-70 detention were crimes against humanity, summarising fifty-eight case files (72% female victims, 85% naming soldiers or military police). Legal framing of sexual torture.
Seven women political prisoners at Plantungan camp (Historia, 2017; preview)
Historia article (4 Oct 2017, preview only) on seven women political prisoners at Plantungan, the women's 'Pulau Buru' at the foot of Mount Prau, with historian Amurwani Lestariningsih on the inmates (Gerwani, CGMI, PKI sympathisers, some arrested by mistake). Partial text.
Sexual violence against women after the 1965 events (Historia, 2017)
Historia report (17 Mar 2017) on a Komnas Perempuan/YLBHI/IPT 65 session on sexual violence after 1965, opening with Bedjo Untung's case of Zaenab, a 12-year-old in Pekalongan stripped and repeatedly raped by soldiers. Testimony on sexual violence.
Prize-winning athlete accused of being PKI who transformed herself into a man (Historia, 2017)
Historia feature (2017) on Karnah Sukarta (b. 1940, Ciamis), bronze medallist in javelin at the 1958 Asian Games, a Sukarno-admiring student reportedly joined Gerwani in Kawali, arrested after 1965 and held in Bandung. Biography of an athlete linked to Gerwani.