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Bertahan dalam Impunitas: Kisah Para Perempuan Penyintas yang Tak Kunjung Meraih Keadilan

Surviving in Impunity: Stories of Women Survivors Still Denied Justice (AJAR/Komnas Perempuan, 2015)

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Book by AJAR with Komnas Perempuan (Oct 2015) from participatory research with women survivors. In the 1965 context chapter (pp. 39-40) it describes false rumours about Gerwani and the sexual slander of the generals, with violence against Gerwani members. Survivor testimonies name Christina Sumarmiyati (arrested again 1968 as a Gerwani member), Hartiti (Gerwani member, arrested 1966), Kadmiyati (taught in a Gerwani-run TK), Sumilah, Sujilah and Endang Lestari (stripped to find a 'Gerwani stamp'), and Marsa, Antonetha Kitu Mira and Sarlotha Kopi Lede in Kupang/Sabu.

Buku AJAR bersama Komnas Perempuan (Okt 2015) dari penelitian partisipatif dengan perempuan penyintas. Bab konteks 1965 (hlm. 39-40) menguraikan desas-desus palsu tentang Gerwani dan fitnah seksual atas para jenderal, serta kekerasan terhadap anggota Gerwani. Kesaksian menyebut Christina Sumarmiyati (ditangkap lagi 1968 sebagai anggota Gerwani), Hartiti (anggota Gerwani, ditangkap 1966), Kadmiyati (mengajar di TK Gerwani), Sumilah, Sujilah dan Endang Lestari (ditelanjangi mencari 'cap Gerwani'), serta Marsa, Antonetha Kitu Mira dan Sarlotha Kopi Lede di Kupang/Sabu.

“mereka yang mendalangi kekerasan memicu kebencian dengan menghembuskan desas-desus palsu bahwa perempuan, secara khusus anggota Gerwani, terlibat dalam pembunuhan para jenderal. (p. 39)”

People

Christina SumarmiyatiHartitiKadmiyatiSumilahSujilahEndang LestariTri Endang BatariMarsaAntonetha Kitu MiraSarlotha Kopi LedeGaluh WanditaSudarsiniNgabinemSuharto

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of IndonesiaAsia Justice and RightsNational Commission on Violence against WomenWomen Survivors' Forum (Kipper)Indonesian Peasants' FrontAll-Indonesia Central Labour OrganisationUnified Movement of Indonesian StudentsIndonesian Youth and Students' AssociationInstitute of People's Culture

Places

YogyakartaKupangSabuDenpasarBuruPlantunganSemarangJakartaAcehWest New Guinea (Papua)Indonesia

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

memory, testimony and justiceGerwani organisationLubang Buaya and sexual slanderarrests and detentionPlantungan and women prisonerskillings 1965–66

Tags

impunitystigmasexual violence

Details

Date
2015-10
Creator
Galuh Wandita et al. (AJAR); eds Dodi Yuniar and Matt Easton
Publication
Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), Jakarta, with Komnas Perempuan
Document type
book (text companion of AJAR et al. (2015) - Bertahan dalam Impunitas, Kisah Para Perempuan Penyintas (Christina Sumarmiyati) [archive.org].pdf)
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
Source role
secondary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Source archive
Internet Archive full-text search
Access
open access (Internet Archive) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/AJAR et al. (2015) - Bertahan dalam Impunitas, Kisah Para Perempuan Penyintas (Christina Sumarmiyati) [archive.org].txt
OCR / text
Good · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports
Summary basis
first 60k chars read + all Gerwani/member passages of the full text

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