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Dr Annie Pohlman

Indonesian Discipline
ARC DECRA Research Fellow
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56786
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Researcher biography

Annie Pohlman is Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies at The School of Languages and Cultures, St Lucia campus, UQ. Her research interests include Indonesian history and politics, comparative genocide studies, torture, gendered experiences of violence, and testimony studies. She also works with human rights NGOs in Indonesia on the documentation of human rights abuses.

Featured projects Duration
How does torture become normal? Indonesia's New Order regime, 1965-1998
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
 2017–2020
School strategic research initiative

Publications

Book (1)
Book Chapters (11)
Journal Articles (21)
Conference Papers (2)
Thesis (1)
Research Reports (2)

Book

Women, sexual violence and the Indonesian killings of 1965-66

Book Chapters

After 1965: legal matters for justice?
A case for genocide: Indonesia, 1965-1966
New interpretations of the causes, dynamics and legacies of the Indonesian genocide
Two women's testimonies of sexual violence during the 1965-1966 Indonesian massacres
Finding a way: women's stories of daily survival after the 1965 killings in Indonesia
Sexualised bodies, public mutilation and torture at the beginning of Indonesia's New Order Regime (1965-1966)
Indonesia and the UN Genocide Convention: the empty promises of human rights ritualism
Introduction
Conclusion
An ongoing legacy of atrocity: torture and the Indonesian state
Spectacular atrocities: Making enemies during the 1965-1966 massacres in Indonesia

Journal Articles

Sexual violence as torture: crimes against humanity during the 1965-1966 killings in Indonesia
Evaluation of Complementary-Alternative Medicine (CAM) questionnaire development for Indonesian clinical psychologists: a pilot study
The spectre of Communist women, sexual violence and citizenship in Indonesia
A year of truth and the possibilities for reconciliation in Indonesia
Janda PKI: stigma and sexual violence against communist widows following the 1965-1966 massacres in Indonesia
Film review: the act of killing
Explaining sexual violence
Getting caught and being killed
Indonesia: a love story
Stigma and exclusion in cross-cultural contexts
Incitement to genocide against a political group: the anti-communist killings in Indonesia
Introduction: confronting mass atrocities in oral historical practice
Telling stories about torture in Indonesia: managing risk in a culture of impunity
Child-raising, childbirth and abortion in extremis: women's stories of caring for and losing children during the violence of 1965-1966 in Indonesia
Introduction. The massacres of 1965-1966: new interpretations and the current debate in Indonesia
Documentation: reports by human rights and victim advocacy organisations in Indonesia: reconciling the violence of 1965
Propaganda, misogyny and incitement to massacre: The Indonesian military's campaign against Communist women following the 1 October 1965 coup
Testimonio and telling women's narratives of genocide, torture and political imprisonment in post-Suharto Indonesia
(Book review) Wife or Worker? Asian Women and Migration
A fragment of a story: Gerwani and Tapol experiences
Review of Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett (eds), Violence Against Women in Asian Societies (London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003)

Conference Papers

Preventing future mass atrocities in Indonesia: Implementing the responsibility to protect within a culture of impunity
Women and the Indonesian killings of 1965-1966: Gender variables and possible directions for research

Thesis

Ashes in My Mouth: Women, Violence and Testimony during the Indonesian Massacres of 1965-1966

Research Reports

The responsibility to protect in Viet Nam: Challenges, opportunities and cases for implementation
Indonesia and Post-New Order Reforms: Challenges and Opportunities for Promoting the Responsibility to Protect

Areas of research

Studies in Culture