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Torture Camps in Indonesia, 1965-1970 (Pohlman, 2022)
Pohlman's chapter on the interrogation and torture centres ('devil's houses') in the army's 1965-70 detention system, opening with Sudjinah's account of capture with Sulami in Feb 1967 and torture at Gunung Sahari. Evidence from a handful of survivor testimonies.
Bab Pohlman tentang pusat interogasi dan penyiksaan ('rumah setan') dalam sistem penahanan Angkatan Darat 1965-70, dibuka dengan kisah Sudjinah tentang penangkapan bersama Sulami Feb 1967 dan penyiksaan di Gunung Sahari. Bukti dari sejumlah kecil kesaksian penyintas.
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- Date
- 2022
- Creator
- Pohlman
- Document type
- book chapter (book chapter (chapter 8 in an edited volume on detention camps in Asia; historical analysis based on survivor testimony))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Netherlands
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Brill (open access) via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Chapter PDF from Brill (DOI 10.1163/9789004512573_009), Detention Camps in Asia (2022); the '© Annie Pohlman, 2022' line suggests open access [verify licence]. File in Nath's Gerwani folder; text extracted to cloud slice; annotation retrieval date 2026-10-13. Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
- Citation (APA)
- Pohlman, A. (2022). Torture camps in Indonesia, 1965–1970. In R. Cribb, C. Twomey, & S. Wilson (Eds.), Detention camps in Asia: The conditions of confinement in modern Asian history (pp. 137–155). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004512573_009 [volume title from PDF metadata; editors and subtitle not printed in this chapter PDF, to be verified against the Brill record]
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Pohlman (2022) - Torture Camps in Indonesia, 1965-1970.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.959) · 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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