GA-03706 2022 relevance A public
Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History
Detention Camps in Asia (Brill, 2022): 'Torture Camps in Indonesia, 1965-1970' (Pohlman), opening with Sudjinah's memoir
Brill edited volume (2022) on detention camps in modern Asia; the chapter 'Torture Camps in Indonesia, 1965-1970' (Annie Pohlman, pp. 137-155) opens with Sudjinah's memoir Terempas Gelombang Pasang. It names Sudjinah and Sulami as fellow leaders of Gerwani who, after eighteen months underground and a clandestine pamphlet against the New Order, were captured together in mid-February 1967 and tortured at the Gunung Sahari 'devil's house'; Sudjinah served sixteen years (released 1983), Sulami was released 1984.
Buku suntingan Brill (2022) tentang kamp tahanan di Asia modern; bab 'Torture Camps in Indonesia, 1965-1970' (Annie Pohlman, hlm. 137-155) dibuka dengan memoar Sudjinah, Terempas Gelombang Pasang. Menyebut Sudjinah dan Sulami sebagai sesama pemimpin Gerwani yang, setelah delapan belas bulan bersembunyi dan menerbitkan pamflet melawan Orde Baru, ditangkap bersama pertengahan Februari 1967 dan disiksa di 'rumah setan' Gunung Sahari; Sudjinah dipenjara enam belas tahun (bebas 1983), Sulami bebas 1984.
“a fellow leader of the communist-aligned women's organisation, Gerwani ... Sudjinah and Sulami ... had published a clandestine pamphlet denouncing the military government ... captured on the same day in mid-February 1967 (p. 138)”
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- Date
- 2022
- Creator
- Robert Cribb; Christina Twomey; Sandra Wilson (eds.)
- Publication
- Brill (Social Sciences in Asia, vol. 41)
- Document type
- book
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Netherlands
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Internet Archive full-text search
- Access
- open access (Internet Archive full-text copy); personal research copy Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Cribb et al. (2022) - Detention Camps in Asia, The Conditions of Confinement (Sudjinah, Sulami) [archive.org].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-03707 Cribb et al. (2022) - Detention Camps in Asia, The Conditions of Confinement (Sudjinah, Sulami) [archive.org].txt
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