A Brief Look Back
Article by Kukilowarsi (1959) for 17 August, recalling women's roles in the Indonesian revolution: 1926 rebels and Digul exiles, anti-Japanese resistance, women's guerrilla brigades, Red Cross and kitchens, and stories of Suparmi and a mother fighter. It cites the first women's congress of 1928, the 1955 vote, and dema
Francisca Fanggidaej in Shanghai and Beijing, c. 1966
IISG photograph (c.1966): black-and-white photo of about twelve men and one woman standing before tall windows, from Francisca Fanggidaej's time in Shanghai and Beijing. Only the file title identifies place and person.
CIA, 14 Feb 1966: 'Settled Policy' (Francisca Fanggidaej, Indonesian delegation)
Large CIA Reading Room file (about 950,000 characters) that is a Congressional Record (House/Appendix) extract, February 1966, with items such as Boggs's 'Settled Policy' on Vietnam. The only Gerwani-relevant passage is a delegate list (p. 15), apparently of the Afro-Asian-Latin American solidarity conference, naming F
Delegations Arrive for Albania's 30th Liberation Anniversary (FBIS, 23 Nov 1974)
FBIS item (Tirana radio, 23 Nov 1974) listing delegations arriving for Albania's 30th liberation anniversary. The PKI delegation was led by Setiati Surasto, candidate member of the PKI Central Committee, alongside parties from Brazil, New Zealand, West Germany and Argentina. Gerwani is not mentioned.
Hoxha Receives Foreign Delegations (FBIS, 29 Nov 1974)
FBIS item (Zeri i Popullit, 29 Nov 1974): Enver Hoxha received foreign delegations for Albania's 30th liberation anniversary, including a long list of Marxist-Leninist parties. The Communist Party of Indonesia delegation was led by Setiati Surasto, candidate member of its Central Committee. Gerwani is not mentioned.
The line of the Communist Party of Indonesia explained: interview with Setiati Surasto (Indonesian Tribune, Tirana, 1974
JPRS translation of an Indonesian Tribune (Tirana) 1974 report of Radio Tirana interview with Setiati Surasto, leader of the PKI delegation to Albania's 30th liberation anniversary. She describes Indonesia as a US neo-colony under Suharto's 'fascist' regime, cites 28 million unemployed and about 100,000 political priso
Tempo, 8 February 2016: Mintardjo and a fragment of Gerwis history
Tempo review (8 Feb 2016) of Elisabeth Ida Mulyani's video 'Supervivere' on 1965 exiles (Mintardjo and nine others in the Netherlands and Sweden), shown in Yogyakarta with a charcoal portrait 'Suti, Plight of Gerwani' by Dewi Candraningrum. It describes Suti, 95, founder of Gerwis Musuk/Boyolali in 1952, a literacy cam
Memory transmission of 1965 in the novels Pulang and Amba (Mulyadi and Putra, 2021)
2021 article applying postmemory and '1.5 generation' concepts to the 1965 novels Pulang (Leila Chudori) and Amba (Laksmi Pamuntjak), distinguishing exiles, 1.5-generation and second-generation characters. Literary context.
The G30S-PKI in modern Indonesian novels by post-Reformasi women authors (Efendi et al., 2023)
2023 UNY article on how three post-Reformasi novels by women authors (Ayu Utami's Manjali dan Cakrabirawa, Leila Chudori's Pulang, Laksmi Pamuntjak's Amba) re-interpret facts of G30S, including Buru detention and 'PKI descendant' stigma. Literary context.
Tempo, 17 September 2023: Why 1965 exiles will not return home
Tempo report (17 Sep 2023, Raymundus Rikang and Stefanus Pramono) on 1965 exiles who decline to return despite visa and residence facilities offered by ministers Mahfud Md. and Yasonna Laoly in Amsterdam and Prague. Sri Budiarti (Aachen, ex-student in Budapest) demands truth and an apology and removal of the stigma tha
Exile trauma and gender in the novel Pulang: Hirsch's postmemory (Putra et al., 2024)
2024 article analysing Leila Chudori's novel Pulang through Hirsch's postmemory and gender: an exile in Paris passes trauma to his daughter Lintang via objects and letters. Literary context.
Tempo, 15 December 2024: Francisca Fanggidaej's story of exile in China and the Netherlands
Tempo magazine profile (15 Dec 2024, archivist Rika Theo and Iwan Kurniawan) of Francisca Fanggidaej: Pesindo leader, survivor of Madiun 1948, in Chile during 30 Sept 1965, passport revoked 1967, 20 years in Beijing with the Afro-Asian journalists' organisation, then exile in the Netherlands from 1985. She joined the K
Tempo, 15 December 2024: Inside Francisca Fanggidaej's diaries for her children (notes of exile)
Tempo magazine article (15 Dec 2024, Dian Yuliastuti and Iwan Kurniawan) on Francisca Fanggidaej's papers at the IISH, Amsterdam, notably her diaries 'Sasja' and 'Nila' written in exile in Beijing from Oct 1965 to her children. Her daughters recall the family's separation, stigma at school and her later reunion. It not
Traumatic Memory and Family Dynamics of Political Prisoners in Chudori's Namaku Alam (Karim et al., 2025)
2025 article on Leila Chudori's novel Namaku Alam (sequel to Pulang) as literary representation of trauma transmission in families of political prisoners, using Caruth, Hirsch and Halbwachs. Literary context.