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TAPOL Bulletin No. 44, March 1981

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TAPOL Bulletin no. 44 (London, March 1981): army takeover of the legal sector, Free-Aceh trials, Pramoedya's Buru novels harassed, East Timor, US human rights report. A short item (p.4) reports that eight women political prisoners long held in Bukit Duri were moved to Tangerang women's prison: Sulami (20 years), Sudjinah (18), Suharti Harsono and Sri Ambar (16), Tati Harti and Sundari Abdul Rachman (life). It also reports a mother and daughter sentenced in West Java, and reviews a Dutch book on Indonesian women.

Buletin TAPOL no. 44 (London, Maret 1981): militer menguasai sektor hukum, sidang Aceh Merdeka, novel Buru Pramoedya diganggu, Timor Timur, laporan HAM AS. Satu berita pendek (hlm. 4) melaporkan delapan tapol perempuan yang lama di Bukit Duri dipindah ke penjara perempuan Tangerang: Sulami (20 tahun), Sudjinah (18), Suharti Harsono dan Sri Ambar (16), Tati Harti dan Sundari Abdul Rachman (seumur hidup). Juga ibu dan anak yang dihukum di Jawa Barat, serta ulasan buku Belanda tentang perempuan Indonesia.

“p.4 'Bukit Duri Tapols Moved to Tangerang': Tati Harti (life), Sundari Abdul Rachman (life), Sulami (20 years), Sudjinah (18), Suharti Harsono (16) and Sri Ambar (16); 'All were arrested in 1965 or early 1966.'”

People

SulamiSudjinahSri Ambar RukmiatiSuharti HarsonoTati HartiSundari AbdulrachmanRatna JuwitaUbed JubaedahPramoedya Ananta ToerAdnan Buyung NasutionAli SaidIsmael SalehMudjonoSuharto

Organisations

TAPOLIndonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of IndonesiaOperational Command for the Restoration of Security and OrderAll-Indonesia Central Labour OrganisationIndonesian Peasants' FrontHasta MitraIndonesian Advocates' AssociationIndonesian Women's Congress

Places

IndonesiaJakartaBukit Duri PrisonTangerangWest JavaAcehEast TimorWest New Guinea (Papua)

Topics

Plantungan and women prisonersarrests and detentiontrials (Mahmillub)women's rights and emancipationNew Ordermemory, testimony and justice

Tags

prisonsliterary work

Details

Date
1981-03
Creator
TAPOL
Publication
TAPOL
Document type
periodical issue (testimony, memoir or human-rights report)
Language
English
Perspective
Other
Source role
primary
Country
UK
Period
1980–1998
Source archive
TAPOL Bulletin (VU Research Repository, vuir.vu.edu.au) · source link
Access
open access (Victoria University Institutional Repository) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/TAPOL Bulletin (1974-1996) - issues on Gerwani and women prisoners (VUIR)/TAPOL (1981) - TAPOL Bulletin No. 44, March 1981 [VUIR 26339].pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.953) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
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01 Primary Sources › 1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports › TAPOL Bulletin (1974-1996) - issues on Gerwani and women prisoners (VUIR)
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