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TAPOL Bulletin No. 105, June 1991 (interview with two former Timorese prisoners; Sundari Abdulrachman in Tangerang)

TAPOL Bulletin No. 105, Jun 1991: interview with former Timorese prisoner (Tangerang, 'Mama Sundari')

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TAPOL Bulletin no. 105 (June 1991). In an interview (pp. 11-12) East Timorese ex-prisoner Domingas Coelho describes Tangerang women's prison from 1984, where she shared Blok Anggrek with two elderly PKI prisoners, Sundari Abdulrahaman ('Mama Sundari') and Tati, who nursed her and taught her embroidery, fieldwork and Indonesian. A news item (p. 25) says the IPU intervened for former MP Mrs Sundari Abdulrachman, released in 1989, so she is the former Gerwani leader of TAPOL no. 95.

TAPOL Bulletin no. 105 (Juni 1991). Dalam wawancara (hlm. 11-12) bekas tahanan Timor Timur Domingas Coelho menceritakan Penjara Wanita Tangerang sejak 1984, tempat ia sekamar blok Anggrek dengan dua tapol PKI lanjut usia, Sundari Abdulrahaman ('Mama Sundari') dan Tati, yang merawatnya serta mengajarinya menyulam, bertani dan bahasa Indonesia. Berita (hlm. 25) menyebut IPU membela bekas anggota DPR Ny. Sundari Abdulrachman yang bebas 1989, jadi ia tokoh Gerwani yang diberitakan TAPOL no. 95.

“Sundari taught me embroidery and Tati taught me how to work in the fields. (p. 12)”

People

Sundari AbdulrachmanDomingas CoelhoHaryatiSukatno

Organisations

TAPOLCommunist Party of IndonesiaIndonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Inter-Parliamentary UnionFretilin

Places

TangerangJakartaDiliAcehEast TimorLisbon

Topics

Plantungan and women prisonersarrests and detentionmemory, testimony and justicebiography

Tags

interview

Details

Date
1991-06
Creator
TAPOL (Indonesia Human Rights Campaign)
Publication
TAPOL Bulletin no. 105
Document type
bulletin issue
Language
English
Perspective
Other
Source role
primary
Country
UK
Period
1980–1998
Source archive
TAPOL Bulletin (VU Research Repository) · source link
Access
open access (TAPOL Bulletin, VU repository) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/TAPOL Bulletin (1974-1996) - issues on Gerwani and women prisoners (VUIR)/TAPOL (1991) - TAPOL Bulletin No. 105, June 1991 - Sundari Abdulrahman in Tangerang prison testimony [VUIR 26111].pdf
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Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports › TAPOL Bulletin (1974-1996) - issues on Gerwani and women prisoners (VUIR)
Summary basis
first 60k chars read + all Gerwani/member passages of the full text

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