Soe Tjen Marching

Category: scholar/researcher
Nationality: Indonesian
Also written as: Soe Tjen Marching

2015 – 2025

Often appears with

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) 5 Communist Party of Indonesia 5 People's Youth 4 Indonesian Peasants' Front 4 Institute of People's Culture 4 Indonesian Youth and Students' Association 4 Union of Catholic University Students of the Republic of Indonesia 4 Yayasan Bhinneka Nusantara 4 Christina Sumarmiyati 4 Maria Goreti Sumilah 4 Yosephina Endang Lestari 4 Hartiti 4 Theresia Kadmiyanti 4 Suharto 3 Saskia Wieringa 3

7 items

GA-03654 2015-10 Bhinneka (Yayasan Bhinneka Nusantara), October 2015 rel A

Bhinneka, October 2015: Half a Century of the 1965 Genocide (English edition)

Free English-language magazine issue edited by Soe Tjen Marching (Bhinneka Nusantara, Surabaya), October 2015, of victim testimonies. Ex-women prisoners Hartiti, Maria Goretti Sumilah and Theresia Kadmiyanti describe Gerwani-related interrogation: nude-dance and genital-mutilation accusations, searches for a 'Gerwani m

GA-03655 2015-10 Bhinneka (Yayasan Bhinneka Nusantara), October 2015 rel A

Bhinneka, October 2015: Half a Century of the 1965 Genocide (English edition)

GA-03656 2015-10 Bhinneka (Yayasan Bhinneka Nusantara, Surabaya), edisi Oktober 2015 rel A

Bhinneka, October 2015: Setengah Abad Genosida 1965 (Indonesian edition, incl. Christina Sumarmiyanti and women ex-prisoners' testimonies)

Bhinneka, October 2015: Half a Century of the 1965 Genocide (Indonesian edition, women ex-prisoners' testimonies)

Bhinneka, October 2015 (Surabaya; ed. Soe Tjen Marching), a 1965 anniversary issue. Women ex-prisoners testify: Hartiti, a Gerwani member, was asked whether she joined the 'naked dance' and castrated the generals; Maria Goretti Sumilah was beaten and burned to confess she was Gerwani; Theresia Kadmiyanti ran a TK Melat

GA-03657 2015-10 Bhinneka (Yayasan Bhinneka Nusantara, Surabaya), edisi Oktober 2015 rel A

Bhinneka, October 2015: Setengah Abad Genosida 1965 (Indonesian edition, incl. Christina Sumarmiyanti and women ex-prisoners' testimonies)

Bhinneka, October 2015: Half a Century of the 1965 Genocide (Indonesian edition, women ex-prisoners' testimonies)

GA-02908 2020 rel B

1965, L'Heure de l'histoire (Margolin, Archipel 99, 2020)

1965, the hour of history (Margolin, Archipel, 2020)

Jean-Louis Margolin's 47-page review essay (Archipel 99, 2020, in French) on the 'new historiography' of 1965 through eight books, summarising findings on army-militia cooperation, NU/Ansor, sexual violence and prisons, and critiquing Melvin and Robinson.

GA-02979 2020 rel C

Forty Years of Silence: The Insanity of Society

Forty Years of Silence: The Insanity of Society (Marching, 2020)

Film review by Soe Tjen Marching (Archipel 99, 2020, pp. 35-40) of Robert Lemelson's documentary '40 Years of Silence' (2009), following four families in Bali and Central Java affected by 1965-66, with attention to trauma, stigma ('child of communists') and the New Order propaganda film. Gerwani and the sexual slander

GA-02907 2025 rel A

The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia (Soe Tjen Marching, 2025 edition)

The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia (Soe Tjen Marching, 2025 ed.)

Soe Tjen Marching's collection (Amsterdam UP 2017; Routledge 2025) of twenty survivor and descendant testimonies organised by generation, including 'Steel Women', and introducing the 'mutation of fear'. Summarises the 1965 slander of Gerwani; key testimony source.