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From the Men They Took Their Labor, from the Women They Took Everything (Sarbinatun, trans. Nancy Florida, 2025)
From the Men They Took Their Labor, from the Women They Took Everything (Sarbinatun, transl. Florida, 2025)
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.
Terjemahan bahasa Inggris beranotasi Nancy Florida (Indonesia, Okt 2025) atas kesaksian Sarbinatun: penari Lekra dan ketua IPPI, menikah usia 17 dengan orang Biro Chusus PKI, disiksa di Solo dan Semarang, ditahan di Plantungan hingga 1979 dan dituduh Gerwani meski tak pernah anggota.
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- Date
- 2025
- Creator
- Sarbinatun and Florida
- Document type
- journal article (translated survivor testimony (oral testimony recorded 2005, published 2006) with translator's introduction, timeline, annotations, photographs and glossary; journal publication)
- Language
- English; Indonesian; Javanese
- Perspective
- Testimony/memoir
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Project MUSE via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Project MUSE (Indonesia, Cornell University Press / Cornell Southeast Asia Program), library-licensed access via University of Calgary (watermark 2026-10-14 00:52 GMT, i.e. 2026-10-13 local time); DOI 10.1353/ind.2025.a972213; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972213. Retrieval date 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Sarbinatun. (2025). From the men they took their labor, from the women they took everything (N. Florida, Trans. & Intro.). Indonesia, 120, 39–71. https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2025.a972213 (Original work published 2006 as "Laki-laki dimanfaatkan tenaganya, perempuan seluruh-luruhnya", in H. Setiawan (Ed.), Kidung para korban, pp. 45–76, Pustaka Pelajar)
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Sarbinatun and Florida (2025) - From the Men They Took Their Labor, from the Women They Took Everything.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.939) · 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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