Beware the Communist Revival (Audio Lecture)
Audio item (description only, no transcript): 'Mewaspadai Kebangkitan Komunis', a 55:44 Islamic lecture by Ustadz Ayip Syafruddin, broadcast by Radio Al I'tishom (tag date 2016), from the Internet Archive collection 'Waspada! Bahaya! Komunis dll.'. It warns against a supposed communist revival; an example of post-New O
The Crescent and the Rising Sun: Indonesian Islam under the Japanese Occupation of Java 1942-45 (Benda, 1955)
Harry J. Benda, The Crescent and the Rising Sun: Indonesian Islam under the Japanese Occupation of Java, 1942-45 (PhD thesis, Cornell, June 1955), on Japanese policy towards Islam, Masjumi and the mass organisations Putera and Hokokai. Gerwani is not mentioned (it was founded after the thesis's period). The only women'
Woman and the Changing Marriage Pattern of Indonesia (van der Kroef, 1957)
Journal article by Justus M. van der Kroef (American Catholic Sociological Review, June 1957) on women's status and marriage in Indonesia: adat versus Islamic law, polygamy, divorce rates, colonial and revolutionary change. Surveys women's organisations (Perwari, Kowani) and notes Kowani's early left turn and WIDF cont
A Traditional Leader in a Time of Change: the Kijaji and Ulama in West Java (Horikoshi, 1976)
Hiroko Horikoshi's 1976 University of Illinois anthropology PhD thesis on kijaji and ulama as traditional leaders in a West Java (Priangan, Cipari) Islamic village, covering kinship, rural economy, the life cycle, the ulama as educators and legal experts, and kijaji charisma. It has almost nothing on Gerwani: a single
The Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree: Muhammadiyah in a Central Javanese Town (Nakamura, 1976)
Mitsuo Nakamura's 1976 Cornell PhD thesis, an ethnography and local history of the Muhammadiyah reform movement in Kotagede, Yogyakarta, arguing that Islamization of Java is an ongoing, internally generated process. Gerwani appears only in passing (p. 208), listed with Pemuda Rakyat and Lekra as PKI-influenced mass org
Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (94): communism manipulating religion
Harian Neraca, 22 April 1989, p. 10: instalment 94 of Soegiarso Soerojo's serial. Argues communism manipulates religion, citing in Jatibarang a 'babu (Gerwani)' who spread lies between Muslims and Christians, and forged Qur'anic pamphlets.
The Women's Movement in Indonesia, with special reference to 'Aisyiyah (It, 2005)
Suraiya It's 2005 Temple University religion PhD dissertation on the Indonesian women's movement, with the Muhammadiyah women's section 'Aisyiyah as case study (Ch. 2 history from Kartini to the New Order; Ch. 3 religion and family law; Ch. 4-5 'Aisyiyah; Ch. 6 conclusion). Gerwani appears only in passing: Gerwis is li
Confronting the Past: the anticommunist killings of 1965-66 and the role of Nahdlatul Ulama (McGregor, 2009)
Katharine McGregor's 2009 article on NU's support for the 1965-66 killings (e.g. its 5 Oct 1965 call to ban the PKI, Gerwani and others), their celebration under the New Order and Syarikat's post-1998 reconciliation work. Context on religious-organisation role.
Tempo, 29 August 2011: 'I am proud to be an executioner' (Aceh caning)
Tempo first-person piece (29 Aug 2011) by an anonymous 38-year-old caning executioner in Aceh Tamiang describing his role under sharia qanun. It is unrelated to 1965 or Gerwani; apparently scraped with the 'algojo' series.
Tempo, 1 October 2012: Chambali - 'He recited the creed fluently...'
Tempo testimony (1 Oct 2012) of Chambali, 70, former Banser chief of Rengel, Tuban, who describes beheading PKI members at Jurang Watu Rongko in 1965-66 on lists from the district office and military, encouraged by NU leader Kiai Murtadji. Recalls sparing one man who recited the creed. Tempo adds a note on the ravine's
Tempo, 1 October 2012: Graves above wells (Lumajang and Magetan)
Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on killing sites in Lumajang (Pandanwangi, Curah Mayit, Srebet) and Magetan (Puhrancang well, Gangsiran forest), with testimony from Ansor/Banser participants and villagers. Notes NU leaders called it jihad, army backing, and that many victims were not PKI. Gerwani is not mentioned.
Data and Facts on the Revival of the PKI (Audio Lectures, 2017)
Audio item (description only, no transcript): 'Data dan Fakta Kebangkitan PKI', a 3:12:35 recording of lectures by Alfian Tanjung, Rizieq Shihab and Kivlan Zen, tagged Aksi Bela Islam III (2017), hosted on archive.org. It argues for an alleged revival of the PKI; relevant as contemporary anti-communist propaganda. No G
Eid al-Adha at Plantungan camp (Historia, 2019)
Historia vignette (2019) on Eid al-Adha at Plantungan camp, drawing on Lestariningsih's book and Mia Bustam's memoir: prisoners allowed to pray with villagers, the camp's livestock unit, and Bustam giving away her meat. Camp daily life.
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959 (Lin, 2020)
PhD dissertation (History, University of Washington, 2020) by Hongxuan Lin tracing the confluence of Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959, through vernacular print culture; it genealogises Sukarno's NASAKOM. Gerwani appears only briefly: citing Blackburn, it says millions joined for
Gerwani as a political school of Islam in the Sukarno era (Rahmanudin, 2022)
Deden Rahmanudin, 'Gerwani Mazhab Politik Islam Era Soekarno' (Jurnal Kewarganegaraan 6:2, 2022), a literature-based article presenting Gerwani as a feminist movement and discussing it from an Islamic viewpoint (Sukarno's Sarinah, Hamka). Drawing on Wieringa and Lestariningsih, it recounts Gerwani's 1950 founding, MPs