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Slave Labour and Silence in Plantungan Camp (Głąb, 2026)

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Katarzyna Głąb's open-access article (June 2026) on Plantungan, the women political prisoners' camp in a former Dutch leprosarium, using 2018 interviews with survivors aged 81-89 and Mia Bustam's memoir; argues it worked through forced labour, sexual violence and memory erasure. Recent scholarship on Plantungan.

Artikel akses terbuka Katarzyna Głąb (Juni 2026) tentang Plantungan, kamp tahanan politik perempuan di bekas leprosarium Belanda, memakai wawancara 2018 dengan penyintas usia 81-89 dan memoar Mia Bustam; berargumen kamp itu bekerja lewat kerja paksa, kekerasan seksual dan penghapusan ingatan. Kajian terbaru tentang Plantungan.

People

Katarzyna Marta GłąbMia Bustam

Places

PlantunganBansariTemanggungCentral Java

Events

Plantungan women's detention camp

Topics

Plantungan and women prisonersarrests and detentionmemory, testimony and justicelabour and workersNew Order

Tags

prisonsforced labourintervieweyewitness account

Details

Date
2026
Creator
Glab
Document type
journal article (journal article (open access, advance online publication))
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Period
1999–present
Access
Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Głąb, K. M. (2026). Slave labour and silence in Plantungan camp: Women’s experiences of imprisonment and memory suppression. History and Anthropology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2026.2687553
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02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Glab (2026) - Slave Labour and Silence in Plantungan Camp.pdf
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Good (0.949) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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