Frau L's fight for justice: 80-year-old Lestari wishes that no one fears her any more (Keller, 2012)
Anett Keller's 2012 reportage (südostasien, German) on Lestari, an 80-year-old Gerwani co-founder in a Jakarta house of ex-prisoners: Gerwani's literacy and kindergarten work, her husband a PKI East Java leader, flight, arrest in Malang, 1979 release and life as an 'ET' domestic worker. Life-history portrait.
Reportase Anett Keller 2012 (südostasien, Jerman) tentang Lestari, pendiri Gerwani berusia 80 tahun di rumah bersama mantan tahanan di Jakarta: kerja baca-tulis dan taman kanak-kanak Gerwani, suaminya pimpinan PKI Jawa Timur, pelarian, penangkapan di Malang, bebas 1979 dan hidup sebagai pembantu berkode 'ET'. Potret riwayat hidup.
Anett Keller's German briefing (March 2016, Stiftung Asienhaus) on the neglected gender dimension of 1965: Lubang Buaya slander, the film and monument, tattoo hunts, sexual torture, forced marriages of widows, Plantungan and 'State Ibuism'. Written after the IPT 1965.
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Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on Pulau Kemaro, Palembang, used as a military concentration camp in the 1960s-70s; Komnas HAM heard of about 30,000 killed or disappeared in South Sumatra. Testimony of Suwandi and Mochtar Effendy on torture, starvation and mass killing in Sept-Oct 1966 when prisoners dropped to 17. Gerwani i
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Anett Keller's 2019 südostasien feature (German) on music breaking silence about 1965: Genjer-genjer and its composer Muhammad Arief, Lekra composer Subronto Atmodjo, New Order policy, and post-1998 projects. Context on music and memory.
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Tempo feature (2 Oct 2021, Dini Pramita and Bagja Hidayat) on why Gerwani chair Umi Sardjono (Suharti Sumodiwiryo) said little after 13 years in Bukit Duri (to 1978). Drawn from Ita Nadia, Ruth Indiah Rahayu, others: she wept at accounts of rape and Sudjinah's injury, 'it is my responsibility'; friendships with Fransis
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Tempo English cover story 'Traumatic Burden of 1965' (4 Oct 2021, Dini Pramita) on Umi Sardjono's silence and guilt after release in 1978. Ita Fatia Nadia read her a Medan woman's testimony of gang rape and public parading, and showed Sudjinah's X-ray; Umi wept, saying it was her responsibility. It covers her life in t
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Historia premium feature by Budi Setiyono (preview only) on S.K. Trimurti's role in founding Gerwani, noting she resigned when Gerwani 'started leaning left' and chose her husband Sayuti Melik; opens at the Waluya Sejati elderly home. Partial text.
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IISG portrait photograph of Sudjinah (no. 1 of 3, dated 2001, collection Ibu Sudjina): colour photograph of an elderly grey-haired woman seated at a table with a microphone, plants behind. Sudjinah is identified only by the file title; useful as visual documentation of a Gerwani leader later in life.
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IISG portrait photograph of Sudjinah (no. 2 of 3, dated 2001, collection Ibu Sudjina): colour snapshot of an elderly woman in a brown blouse and white skirt on a garden path. Sudjinah is identified only by the file title; useful as visual documentation of a Gerwani leader later in life.
shared: life after release, photo report