Pohlman (2017) chapter on how women whose husbands were killed or detained in 1965-66 secured daily survival for decades under ET stamps and boycotts, with case studies including Ibu Arum, a plantation labourer. Women's post-violence survival.
Traces of violence in the novel Tarian Bumi by Oka Rusmini (Haryanti, 2017)
Novi Haryanti's 2017 postcolonial-feminist reading of Oka Rusmini's Balinese novel Tarian Bumi, arguing 1965 politics and caste adat both produce violence on women; notes 1965 is rarely a literary subject. Literary context; Gerwani not central.
The winding road of the women's federation (Historia, 2017)
Historia article (2017) tracing the Indonesian women's federation from the 1928 congress to its capture by the New Order in 1966, framed by Ruth Indiah Rahayu's view that the movement 'died' and was confined to Dharma Wanita and PKK. Popular history.
Domestication vs revolutionisation of women's politics before G30S (Rahayu, 2017)
Ruth Indiah Rahayu's 2017 essay contrasting pre-G30S state instructions on women's organisations: the Army's domestication ('koncowingking', Panca Dharma Wanita) versus radicalisation tied to revolution, locating Gerwani's politics against the militarist model. Interpretive essay.
Women's movement in Indonesia: ebbs and flows of the struggle for rights (Rahayu, 2017)
Ruth Indiah Rahayu's 21 Dec 2017 essay periodising the Indonesian women's movement in six phases from Ethical Policy schooling through nationalism to 'koncowingking' New Order destruction and later revival. Synthetic overview.
Umi Sardjono, the Marxist feminist who steered Gerwani (Rahayu, 2017)
Ruth Indiah Rahayu's 2017 biographical portrait of Umi Sardjono (1923-2011), Gerwani chair, from Umi's own stories told 2004-09; opens with the film's Jamilah, whom Umi met in detention and apologised to. Intimate life history of a Gerwani leader.
2017 Rowman and Littlefield volume edited by Margaret McLaren on decolonising transnational feminism under neoliberal globalisation, with ten chapters on epistemology and politics and a preface by Mohanty. Theory background; no Indonesian content.
Bernas, 19 July 2017: reader's letter 'Rome Statute still not ratified'
Bernas, 19 July 2017, p. 4: Jurnal Perempuan letter on the unratified Rome Statute listing unresolved cases from 1965–66 to 1998 and naming Gerwani women as targets of sexual violence.