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GA-00113 1961 Nguyen Xuan Tram rel C licensed

Neraka Dunia

Hell on Earth

Api Kartini item (1961), a review of Nguyen Xuan Tram's book 'Hell on Earth' on South Vietnamese women prisoners under Ngo Dinh Diem, including mothers jailed with infants and tortured. It ends by condemning planned US military intervention (General Maxwell Taylor's mission) as a threat to peace in Southeast Asia. Gerw

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-01489 1972-08-16 Edmonton Journal rel C licensed

Women's studies column, with note on Indonesian women's movement and polygamy (Edmonton Journal, 16 Agustus 1972)

Women's studies column, with note on Indonesian women's movement and polygamy (Edmonton Journal, 1972)

Edmonton Journal, 16 Aug 1972, p.20: a column on Women's Studies reviewing the essay collection Woman in Sexist Society. A short passage on non-Western women's status notes that Indonesian women's active economic role, and that the Indonesian women's movement's major goals were abolition of polygamy and divorce by repu

GA-00953 1979-06-06 De Waarheid rel C

Lubis' Land onder regenboog: geschiedenis met slordigheden, fouten en vooringenomenheid

Lubis' Land under the Rainbow: history with sloppiness, errors and bias

Joop Morriën's critical review in De Waarheid (6 June 1979, p.5) of Mochtar Lubis's illustrated history 'Het land onder de regenboog'. He faults its errors and 'virulent anti-communism', says it adopts Suharto's version of 1965, and notes the Madiun 1948 and 1965 killings of communists and Lekra artists' imprisonment.

GA-00971 1988-04-30 De Waarheid rel C

Troepenverschepingen onwettig (bespreking van De Jong)

Troop shipments unlawful (review of De Jong)

De Waarheid book review (30 Apr 1988, p.5) of a De Jong volume on Dutch troop shipments to Indonesia, arguing the 1946-47 deployments lacked a constitutional basis and that resistance (Amsterdam strike of Sept 1946, Indonesia refusers, Schoonhoven boys) was more significant than De Jong suggests. Lawyers Trees Sunito-H

GA-00749 1995-08-12 De Volkskrant rel C

Folio: Kanalisering van een nationaal narcisme (Channelling a national narcissism)

Folio: Channelling a national narcissism (Blokker column on Indies books)

Jan Blokker column in De Volkskrant (12 Aug 1995) reviewing Dutch books on the Indies and the colonial past. Mrs. S.K. Trimurti appears only as an interviewee quoted in H.C. Beynon's "Verboden voor honden en inlanders", on living with Inggit after Sukarno's 1933 arrest. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-02263 2012-10-01 Tempo rel C licensed

Kesaksian Binal-Bugil dari Republik Preman (The Act of Killing)

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Testimonies from a republic of thugs (The Act of Killing)

Tempo package (1 Oct 2012) on The Act of Killing: Ariel Heryanto's review calling it the most important film on Indonesia, and a profile of Anwar Congo (Medan, Pemuda Pancasila) with his wife Salmah and Joshua Oppenheimer's comments. It stresses perpetrators' impunity and ties to officials. Gerwani is not mentioned.

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-03047 2025 rel C licensed

The Heteronormative Family as Moral Infrastructure: Citizenship and National Belonging in Indonesia

The Heteronormative Family as Moral Infrastructure: Citizenship and National Belonging in Indonesia (Mirna Nadia, 2025)

PhD dissertation (Sociology, Northwestern, Dec. 2025) by Mirna Nadia arguing the heteronormative family acts as 'moral infrastructure' of Indonesian citizenship, via the Marriage Law, the AILA judicial review, the Family Resilience Bill, women household heads and LGBT people. Gerwani appears only in ch. 1's history of