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I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: A Life Experience of a Former 1965-1966 Political Prisoner in Indonesia (Hidayat, 2025)

I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: life of a former 1965-66 political prisoner (Hidayat, 2025)

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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.

Studi fenomenologis kasus tunggal 2025 atas seorang mantan tahanan politik laki-laki berusia 86 tahun (wawancara lewat KontraS, 2024): buruh serikat, ditangkap 1966, disiksa, kerja paksa di Tangerang, Nusakambangan dan Buru, kemudian aktivis Aksi Kamisan. Kesaksian laki-laki; hanya konteks.

People

Hidajat

Organisations

KontraSSERBUNIIndonesian Students' Action Front

Places

JakartaCipeteSalemba PrisonTangerangNusakambanganBuru

Events

Deportation of political prisoners to Buru Island

Topics

memory, testimony and justicearrests and detentiontheory and method

Tags

tortureforced labour

Details

Date
2025
Creator
Hidayat
Document type
journal article (peer-reviewed journal article (qualitative psychology; single-case interpretative phenomenological analysis, IPA))
Language
Indonesian; English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Source archive
Jurnal Psikologi Ulayat OJS · source link
Access
Jurnal Psikologi Ulayat, DOI 10.24854/jpu1148; open access under CC BY (p. 177). Published online 8 May 2025. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Hidayat, M. M. (2025). “Saya tidak mau mati sia-sia”: Pengalaman hidup mantan tahanan politik 1965–1966 di Indonesia [“I don't want to die for nothing in prison”: A life experience of a former 1965–1966 political prisoner in Indonesia]. Jurnal Psikologi Ulayat: Indonesian Journal of Indigenous Psychology, 12(1), 177–199. https://doi.org/10.24854/jpu1148
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Hidayat (2025) - I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison, A Life Experience of a Former 1965-1966 Political Prisoner in Indonesia.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.917) · 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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