Tempo, 2 October 2022: Memory of sewing machines and smuggled paper (political prisoners at Plantungan and Buru)
Tempo report (2 Oct 2022, Dini Pramita and Dody Hidayat) on forced labour and memory of 1965 political prisoners. Yosephina Endang Lestari recalls Plantungan women's camp (sewing unit, Santiaji Pancasila, poor health); Ita F. Nadia describes its five aims including re-domestication of women. Hersri Setiawan (Buru) and Tuba (Tangerang, Nusakambangan, Buru) also testify. Gerwani is not mentioned.
Laporan Tempo (2 Okt 2022, Dini Pramita dan Dody Hidayat) tentang kerja paksa dan ingatan tapol 1965. Yosephina Endang Lestari mengenang kamp perempuan Plantungan (unit jahit, Santiaji Pancasila, kesehatan buruk); Ita F. Nadia menjelaskan lima tujuan kamp termasuk mendomestikasi kembali perempuan. Hersri Setiawan (Buru) dan Tuba (Tangerang, Nusakambangan, Buru) juga bersaksi. Gerwani tidak disebut.
“Kamp Plantungan dirancang untuk mengedukasi ulang tahanan dan mengembalikan harkat sebagai ibu dan 'wanita Indonesia'; aktivitas kewanitaan dikembalikan ke ranah domestik (Ita Nadia, p. 1)”
Hearman's review essay (Archipel 99, 2020) of the documentary Pulau Buru: Tanah Air Beta (2016), in which Hersri Setiawan and Tejabayu Soedjojono return to Buru, with Ita Nadia and Ken Setiawan. Context on Buru and its memory.
shared: Deportation of political prisoners to Buru Island, Institute of People's Culture, Unified Movement of Indonesian Students, Ita Fatia Nadia
Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on the Plantungan camp (Kendal) for women Group B political prisoners, opened 1971 in a former leprosarium. Names Gerwani activists and others held there: Sumiyarsi Siwirini ('Lubang Buaya doctor'), Siti Suratih, Mia Bustam, Pujiati, C.H. Sumarmiyati, Mujiati. Covers conditions, 'santi aji' in
shared: Plantungan women's detention camp, Plantungan detention camp, Sumijarsi Siwirini Caropeboka, Yogyakarta
Tempo feature (20 Aug 2022, Dian Yuliastuti and Seno Joko Suyono) on the launch of Mia Bustam's third memoir, 'Kelindan Asa dan Kenyataan'. It recounts her arrest in Yogyakarta on 23 Nov 1965, 13 years' detention without trial (Vredeburg, Wirogunan, Plantungan, Bulu) for Lekra membership, release in 1978, and her later
shared: Plantungan women's detention camp, Institute of People's Culture, Unified Movement of Indonesian Students, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
TAPOL Bulletin no. 6, August 1974. Covers the Hariman Siregar (Malari) trial, tapol forced labour on the Cilacap oil pipeline and Nusakambangan cement works, prison conditions, Australian and British military links and trials of 1965 detainees. It reports on Plantungan women's camp (food, commander Major Prayoga, death
shared: Plantungan women's detention camp, Buru, Plantungan, Nusakambangan
Amnesty International Dutch dossier (Oct 1976) on Buru Island: over 10,000 untried prisoners, forced labour, and prisoner lists including a women's list headed by a short Gerwani history naming women held in Bukit Duri and Plantungan.
shared: Deportation of political prisoners to Buru Island, Buru, Plantungan, forced labour
TAPOL Bulletin no. 19, January 1977. Leads on 'release equals transmigration': Sudomo's 1 Dec 1976 release of 2,500 B-category tapols into 'transmigration centres' and Buru. Reports that women tapols at Plantungan (since 1971) were moved to Bulu prison, Semarang, apparently for transfer to a 'hard-core' women's camp at
shared: Plantungan women's detention camp, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Buru, Plantungan
2025 single-case phenomenological study of an 86-year-old male former political prisoner (interviews via KontraS, 2024): union worker, arrest in 1966, torture, forced labour at Tangerang, Nusakambangan and Buru, later Aksi Kamisan activism. Male testimony; context only.
shared: Deportation of political prisoners to Buru Island, Buru, Tangerang, Nusakambangan
Nancy Florida's annotated English translation (Indonesia, Oct 2025) of Sarbinatun's testimony: Lekra dancer and IPPI president, married at 17 to a PKI Special Bureau man, tortured in Solo and Semarang, held at Plantungan until 1979 and accused as Gerwani though never a member.
shared: Plantungan women's detention camp, Institute of People's Culture, Hersri Setiawan, Plantungan