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GA-02930 2004 rel A

Tahun yang Tak Pernah Berakhir: Memahami Pengalaman Korban 65 (Roosa, Ratih dan Farid, eds., 2004)

The Year That Never Ended: Understanding the Experiences of 1965 Victims (Roosa, Ratih and Farid, eds., 2004)

2004 Elsam/ISSI/TRuK volume distilling an oral history project of 260 victims, with essays including on women political prisoners (Josepha Sukartiningsih), rape in Central Java, survival strategies and Blitar Selatan. Introduction defends oral history against the Lubang Buaya myth.

GA-02917 2013 rel B

Child-raising, Childbirth and Abortion In Extremis: Women's Stories of Caring for and Losing Children, 1965-1966 (Pohlman, 2013)

Child-raising, Childbirth and Abortion In Extremis: women's stories 1965-1966 (Pohlman, 2013)

Pohlman's 2013 article, from about 150 interviews, on women's stories of pregnancy, childbirth, raising, losing and aborting children during 1965-66 and detention, including cooperative childcare and a former Gerwani leader (Ibu Astuti). Gendered history of survival.

GA-02943 2013 rel A

Truth Will Out: Indonesian Accounts of the 1965 Mass Violence (Baskara T. Wardaya, ed., 2013)

Truth Will Out: Indonesian Accounts of the 1965 Mass Violence (Wardaya, ed., 2013)

Wardaya's 2013 English edition of oral histories gathered 2008-11 by Sanata Dharma University's PUSdEP: witnesses from military, Muhammadiyah, Kejawen and Catholic backgrounds and survivors including women detained as alleged Gerwani; foreword summarises the Gerwani mutilation narrative and autopsy. Oral history source

GA-01633 2014-10-01 Koran Memo rel A

Koran Memo, 1 Oktober 2014: 'Pengakuan mantan Gerwani Blitar'

Koran Memo, 1 October 2014: Confession of a former Gerwani member in Blitar

Koran Memo (Kediri), 1 Oct 2014, p. 5: interview with Putmainah (86), former chair of Gerwani in Blitar regency and PKI member of the DPR-GR, ten years in Plantungan; recalls PKI and NU as allies in local parliament.

GA-02920 2015 rel A

Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966 (Annie Pohlman, 2015)

Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966 (Pohlman, 2015)

Annie Pohlman's 2015 monograph, the first book-length study of gendered violence in 1965-66, based on about 150 women survivors: patterns of arrest, torture, rape, sexualised mutilation, strip searches for the 'Gerwani mark', sexual slavery and 'wife-taking'. Key scholarly source.