Poedji Aswati

Category: other Indonesian
Nationality: Indonesian
Also written as: Poedji Aswati; Pudji Aswati

1985 – 2020

2 items

GA-00964 1985-08-21 De Waarheid rel A

Untung (Djoko Untung en Gatot Sutarjo ter dood veroordeeld)

Untung (Djoko Untung and Gatot Sutarjo sentenced to death)

De Waarheid item (21 Aug 1985, p.3) profiling death-row PKI prisoners Djoko Untung and Gatot Sutarjo, sentenced at Blitar on 2 Jan 1976, with Suharto rejecting clemency. Untung's wife Natsia, a known East Java Gerwani member, was arrested in 1968 and still imprisoned; Sutarjo's wife Poedji Aswati was jailed for 15 year

GA-02898 2020 rel B licensed

From Indonesia with Love: Friendships between Political Prisoners and their Pen Pals (Hearman, 2020)

From Indonesia with Love: Political Prisoners and their Pen Pals (Hearman, 2020)

Hearman's 2020 article reconstructing the 1982-92 letters between ex-Gerwani militant Pudji Aswati, imprisoned for subversion, and English Quaker author Patricia Cleveland-Peck, showing how befriending became a transnational activist network. Rare transnational Gerwani prisoner correspondence.