Layout Sheet of Diorama Figures, Museum of the Extreme Left, Lubang Buaya
Typed layout sheet listing the 37 diorama titles of the Museum Pengkhianatan PKI ('Museum Ekstrim Kiri'), opened 1 Oct 1992, from Madiun 1948 through Aidit's capture, the Njono trial and 1974. Shows how the official PKI-treachery narrative was structured.
Booklet of the Museum of PKI Treachery (Communist), 1992
Official booklet issued by Pusjarah ABRI for the 1 Oct 1992 opening of the Museum Pengkhianatan PKI, with forewords by Brig. Gen. Idroes and Try Sutrisno framing 37 dioramas as warning about communism's 'latent danger'. State memory propaganda.
Documentary Photographs of Dioramas, Museum of PKI Treachery / Pancasila Sakti Monument, c. 1990-92
Fourteen prints from Edhi Sunarso's archive of Lubang Buaya dioramas, including 'Latihan sukarelawan P.K.I. di Lubang Buaya' and 'Penganiayaan dan pembunuhan di Lubang Buaya'. Titles match the Paseban dioramas opened in 1981. Visual material on the official narrative.
Berita Yudha, 28 September 1997: Pancasila Sakti Monument, Lubang Buaya
Berita Yudha, 28 Sept 1997, p. 12: tourism feature on the Lubang Buaya monument stating that in the 'torture house' four officers 'were cruelly tortured by Gerwani until they breathed their last'.
Gerry van Klinken's 2001 article mapping the post-Suharto contest over the national past: statist New Order history (film, Lubang Buaya rituals, book bans), versus societal streams including Sulami's 1999 truth-seeking organisation and Pramoedya. Historiographical context.
Remembering and Forgetting at Lubang Buaya (Schreiner, 2003)
Klaus Schreiner's 2003 chapter reading the Monumen Pancasila Sakti at Lubang Buaya as a 'site of memory' and founding shrine of the New Order, noting the 1998 end of the annual film broadcast; applies Halbwachs, Nora and trauma theory. Memory-studies framing.
History Series Book: Pancasila Sakti Museum and Monument (M. Fahlevi, 2004)
2004 illustrated Grasena guidebook by M. Fahlevi to the Lubang Buaya complex, walking through the 34 dioramas of the Museum Pengkhianatan PKI and the Paseban hall, with captions taken from the dioramas. Official state narrative of the Lubang Buaya site.
The Construction of History under Indonesia's New Order: the Lubang Buaya official narrative (Djakababa, 2009)
Yosef Djakababa's 2009 Wisconsin dissertation on how the New Order built the official Lubang Buaya narrative (PKI sole mastermind, spontaneous people's response) via army history, Mahmillub trials, the monument, Hari Kesaktian Pancasila and the film. Key study of official memory.
Construction of History under the New Order: making the Lubang Buaya narrative (summary, 2010)
Seven-page summary (LIPI journal, 2010) of Djakababa's dissertation arguing 1 Oct 1965 was chaotic and the New Order turned it into a good-versus-evil narrative via trials, the monument, commemoration and the film. Short companion to the full thesis.
Wieringa's 2011 article condensing her research: the army's sexual slander of Gerwani was the spark without which the genocide would not have happened; reconstructs the Lubang Buaya night (about 70 women and girls, mostly Pemuda Rakyat volunteers) and reads the monument mural. Programmatic synthesis.