GA-03704 1971 relevance A public
Archive of the Event of 1965 in Indonesia (compilation incl. Anderson and McVey, A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965 Coup)
Archive of the Event of 1965 in Indonesia (compilation incl. Anderson and McVey, Preliminary Analysis of the October 1,
Internet Archive compilation on the 1965 events whose main text is Anderson and McVey's Cornell 'Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965 Coup' (1971), with source documents. It says Gerwani and Pemuda Rakjat trainees at Lubang Buaya were drawn into the killings (pp. 22-23) while stressing the army-fed 'orgy' stories (Antara 30 Nov, Angkatan Bersendjata 13 Dec 1965) are elaborations. Documents list Suharti Suwarto (2nd chairwoman of Gerwani) on the Revolutionary Council, and Njono's confession cites a report from Suharti, vice-chair of Gerwani (p. 161).
Kompilasi Internet Archive tentang peristiwa 1965 dengan teks utama 'Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965 Coup' karya Anderson dan McVey (Cornell, 1971), beserta dokumen sumber. Disebutkan peserta latihan Gerwani dan Pemuda Rakjat di Lubang Buaya terlibat dalam pembunuhan (hlm. 22-23), sambil menekankan cerita 'pesta seks' yang disebarkan Angkatan Darat (Antara 30 Nov, Angkatan Bersendjata 13 Des 1965) sebagai karangan. Dokumen mencantumkan Suharti Suwarto (Ketua II Gerwani) dalam Dewan Revolusi, dan pengakuan Njono menyebut laporan Suharti, wakil ketua Gerwani (hlm. 161).
“the alleged 'ritualistic aspects' of the murders of the Generals, including choral singing of the old Pesindo song Darah Rakjat by more than a hundred Gerwani women, indicates that the whole scenario was designed as a 'blooding' (p. 23)”
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- Date
- 1971
- Creator
- Benedict R. Anderson; Ruth T. McVey (with F. P. Bunnell); compiler anonymous
- Publication
- Interim Reports Series, Modern Indonesia Project, Cornell University (compilation on Internet Archive)
- Document type
- book
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1967–1979
- Source archive
- Internet Archive · source link
- Access
- open access (Internet Archive) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Anonymous compiler (n.d.) - Archive of the Event of 1965 in Indonesia, compilation incl. Anderson and McVey 1971 and [archive.org Indonesia_1965].pdf
- OCR / text
- Good · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
- Summary basis
- first 60k chars read + all Gerwani/member passages of the full text
Companion files
- GA-03705 Anonymous compiler (n.d.) - Archive of the Event of 1965 in Indonesia, compilation incl. Anderson and McVey 1971 and [archive.org Indonesia_1965].txt
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