Snapshot (13 Oct 2026) of the Perpustakaan Online Genosida 1965-1966 homepage, a volunteer digital library with teasers on the IPT 1965 report, West Kalimantan stories, the Buru documentary BABE and Plantungan archival footage. Navigation page.
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
Anonymous silent black-and-white documentary footage (30:51), 1965-68, uploaded to the Internet Archive in 2023, titled 'Victims of the barbarity of G30S-PKI'. Frames show army officers, mourners at funerals of the murdered generals (caption 'Mitze Farre, sister of Pierre Tandean') and soldiers searching a 'PKI member'
Nieuwe Winterswijksche Courant, 12 January 1979, p. 9: youth-club notice of an information evening with Amnesty International Winterswijk, screening a film on political prisoners in Indonesia. It states that after six generals were murdered in October 1965, the army killed half a million people in four months and arres
Seven-page summary (LIPI journal, 2010) of Djakababa's dissertation arguing 1 Oct 1965 was chaotic and the New Order turned it into a good-versus-evil narrative via trials, the monument, commemoration and the film. Short companion to the full thesis.
Hearman's review essay (Archipel 99, 2020) of the documentary Pulau Buru: Tanah Air Beta (2016), in which Hersri Setiawan and Tejabayu Soedjojono return to Buru, with Ita Nadia and Ken Setiawan. Context on Buru and its memory.
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.