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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