Dr Annie Pohlman
Indonesian Major Convenor
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56786
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.
Publications
Book
Pohlman, Annie (2015). Women, sexual violence and the Indonesian killings of 1965-66. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315818795
Book Chapters
Berueh, Muhamad Daud, Hadi, Faisal and Pohlman, Annie (2023). The KKR Aceh’s mapping of torture practices. Resisting Indonesia’s culture of impunity: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (pp. 139-167) edited by Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem and Annie Pohlman. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/rici.2023.06
Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem and Annie Pohlman (2023). The search for truth and justice in Aceh. Resisting Indonesia's culture of impunity: Aceh's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (pp. 1-31) edited by Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem and Annie Pohlman. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian National University Press. doi: 10.22459/RICI.2023.01
Melvin, Jess, Fernida, Indria, Wahyuningroem, Sri Lestari and Pohlman, Annie (2023). The KKR Aceh and transitional justice in Aceh. Resisting Indonesia’s culture of impunity: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (pp. 33-61) edited by Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem and Annie Pohlman. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/rici.2023.02
Pohlman, Annie (2022). Torture camps in Indonesia, 1965-1970. Detention camps in Asia: the conditions of confinement in modern Asian history. (pp. 137-155) edited by Robert Cribb, Christina Twomey and Sandra Wilson. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004512573_009
Melvin, Jess and Pohlman, Annie (2022). Crimes against humanity in Indonesia (1965-1966). The Oxford handbook of atrocity crimes. (pp. 1-28) edited by Barbora Holá, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira and Maartje Weerdesteijn. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190915629.013.34
Pohlman, Annie (2020). No place to remember: haunting and the search for mass graves in Indonesia. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 61-82) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_4
Loney, Hannah and Pohlman, Annie (2020). The sexual and visual dynamics of torture: analysing atrocity photographs from Indonesian-occupied East Timor. Gender, violence and power in Indonesia: across time and space. (pp. 84-100) edited by Katharine McGregor, Ana Dragojlovic and Hannah Loney. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003022992-4
Hubbell, Amy L., Akagawa, Natsuko, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Preface. Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context. (pp. v-vi) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4
Hubbell, Amy L., Rojas-Lizana, Sol , Akagawa, Natsuko and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Acknowledging trauma in a global context: narrative, memory and place. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 1-12) edited by Amy Lynn Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_1
Pohlman, Annie (2019). Kekerasan seksual sebagai penyiksaan: Kejahatan terhadap umat manusia selama pembantaian 1965-66 di Indonesia. 1965 Pada Masa Kini: Hidup dengan Warisan Peristiwa Pembantaian Massal. (pp. 231-262) edited by Martijn Eickhoff, Gerry van Klinken, Geoffrey Robinson, Baskara T. Wardaya (Translator) and Antonius Sumarwan (Translator). Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Sanata Dharma University Press.
Wieringa, Saskia E., Melvin, Jess and Pohlman, Annie (2019). The Indonesian genocide and the International People's Tribunal for 1965. The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian genocide. (pp. 1-21) edited by Saskia E. Wieringa, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429427763-1
Pohlman, Annie (2019). Sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, and forced marriage as crimes against humanity during the Indonesian killings of 1965-66. The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian genocide. (pp. 96-114) edited by Saskia E. Wieringa, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman. New York, United States: Routledge.
Melvin, Jess and Pohlman, Annie (2018). A case for genocide: Indonesia, 1965-1966. The Indonesian genocide of 1965: causes, dynamics and legacies. (pp. 27-46) edited by Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4_2
Pohlman, Annie (2018). Two women's testimonies of sexual violence during the 1965-1966 Indonesian massacres. The Indonesian genocide of 1965: causes, dynamics and legacies. (pp. 115-132) edited by Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4_6
Evanty, Nukila and Pohlman, Annie (2018). After 1965: legal matters for justice?. The Indonesian genocide of 1965: causes, dynamics and legacies. (pp. 311-334) edited by Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4_16
McGregor, Katharine, Melvin, Jess and Pohlman, Annie (2018). New interpretations of the causes, dynamics and legacies of the Indonesian genocide. The Indonesian genocide of 1965: causes, dynamics and legacies. (pp. 1-26) edited by Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4_1
Pohlman, Annie (2017). Finding a way: women's stories of daily survival after the 1965 killings in Indonesia. Genocide perspectives V: a global crime, Australian voices. (pp. 131-145) edited by Nikki Marczak and Kirril Shields. Sydney: University of Technology, Sydney, ePress. doi: 10.5130/978-0-9945039-7-8.j
Pohlman, Annie (2016). Indonesia and the UN Genocide Convention: the empty promises of human rights ritualism. The United Nations and genocide. (pp. 123-145) edited by Deborah Mayersen. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Pohlman, Annie (2016). Sexualised bodies, public mutilation and torture at the beginning of Indonesia's New Order Regime (1965-1966). Gender violence in peace and war: states of complicity. (pp. 116-129) edited by Victoria Sanford, Katerina Stefatos and Cecilia M. Salvi. New Brunswick, NJ, United States: Rutgers University Press.
Mayersen, Deborah and Pohlman, Annie (2013). Introduction. Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention. (pp. 1-31) edited by Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Pohlman, Annie (2013). An ongoing legacy of atrocity: torture and the Indonesian state. Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention. (pp. 35-52) edited by Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203380857
Mayersen, Deborah and Pohlman, Annie (2013). Conclusion. Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention. (pp. 197-199) Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203380857
Pohlman, Annie (2012). Spectacular atrocities: Making enemies during the 1965-1966 massacres in Indonesia. Theatres of violence: Massacre, mass killing and atrocity in history. (pp. 199-212) edited by Philip G. Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan. New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.
Journal Articles
Putra, Idhamsyah Eka, Rufaedah, Any, Thontowi, Haidar Buldan, Pohlman, Annie and Louis, Winnifred (2024). A theoretical model of victimization, perpetration, and denial in mass atrocities: case studies from Indonesia, Cambodia, East Timor, and Myanmar. Personality and social psychology review. doi: 10.1177/10888683241239097
Mutiara Himawan, Eunike, Louis, Winnifred and Pohlman, Annie (2022). Indonesian civilians’ attributions for anti-Chinese violence during the May 1998 riots in Indonesia. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10 (2), 536-553. doi: 10.5964/jspp.5489
Loney, Hannah and Pohlman, Annie (2022). “This Is What Happens to Enemies of the RI”: The East Timor torture photographs within the New Order’s history of sexual and gender-based violence. Indonesia, 2022 (114), 51-74. doi: 10.1353/ind.2022.0010
Himawan, Eunike Mutiara, Pohlman, Annie and Louis, Winnifred (2022). Revisiting the May 1998 riots in Indonesia: civilians and their untold memories. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 41 (2), 240-257. doi: 10.1177/18681034221084320
Himawan, Eunike Mutiara, Pohlman, Annie and Louis, Winnifred (2022). Revisiting the May 1998 riots in Indonesia: civilians and their untold memories. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 41 (2), 186810342210843-257. doi: 10.1177/18681034221084320
Himawan, Eunike Mutiara, Pohlman, Annie and Louis, Winnifred (2021). Memahami dinamika psikologis individu yang turut terlibat dalam kerusuhan massa Mei 1998: Sebuah kerangka psikologis. Jurnal Psikologi Ulayat. doi: 10.24854/jpu464
Pohlman, Annie (2020). Witnessing Torture: Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers ed. by Alexandra S. Moore and Elizabeth Swanson (review). Biography, 42 (4), 916-920. doi: 10.1353/bio.2019.0068
Saptari, Ratna, MacLean, Ken, Pohlman, Annie and Melvin, Jess (2020). Debate on the army and the Indonesian genocide: mechanics of mass murder, by Jess Melvin, with Jess Melvin, Ratna Saptari, Ken MacLean, Annie Pohlman. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 176 (2-3), 373-394. doi: 10.1163/22134379-17602018
Pohlman, Annie Elizabeth (2020). The inefficacy of naming genocide in contemporary Southeast Asia. Humaniora, 32 (2), 110-123. doi: 10.22146/jh.54488
Annie Pohlman (2020). Review of: Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives. Edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, 2019). Australian Journal of Politics and History, 66 (1), 166-167. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12651
Narny, Yenny, Andoni, Yudhi, Herwandi, Herwandi and Pohlman, Annie (2019). Between sakit and schizophrenia in West Sumatra, Indonesia. SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 34 (3) 1, 491-520. doi: 10.1355/sj34-3e
Pohlman, Annie (2019). Review of Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia, by Vannessa Hearman. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 41 (1), 138-140. doi: 10.1355/cs41-1g
Pohlman, Annie (2018). Book review: We Shall Bear Witness: Life Narratives and Human Rights. By Meg Jansen and Margaretta Jolly (eds.). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.. Oral History Review, 45 (1), 173-176. doi: 10.1093/ohr/ohy019
Pohlman, Annie (2017). Sexual violence as torture: crimes against humanity during the 1965-1966 killings in Indonesia. Journal of Genocide Research, 19 (4), 574-593. doi: 10.1080/14623528.2017.1393949
Liem, Andrian, Newcombe, Peter A. and Pohlman, Annie (2017). Evaluation of Complementary-Alternative Medicine (CAM) questionnaire development for Indonesian clinical psychologists: a pilot study. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 33, 14-19. doi: 10.1016/j.ctim.2017.05.003
Pohlman, Annie (2016). The spectre of Communist women, sexual violence and citizenship in Indonesia. Sexualities, 20 (1-2), 196-211. doi: 10.1177/1363460716645789
Pohlman, Annie (2016). A year of truth and the possibilities for reconciliation in Indonesia. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 10 (1), 60-78. doi: 10.5038/1911-9933.10.1.1323
Pohlman, Annie (2016). Janda PKI: stigma and sexual violence against communist widows following the 1965-1966 massacres in Indonesia. Indonesia and the Malay World, 44 (128), 68-83. doi: 10.1080/13639811.2015.1100873
Annie Pohlman (2015). Film review: the act of killing. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 9 (2), 131-134. doi: 10.5038/1911-9933.9.2.1356
Pohlman, Annie (2015). Explaining sexual violence. Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66, 36, 63-78.
Pohlman, Annie (2015). Indonesia: a love story. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 48 (2), 11-16.
Pohlman, Annie (2015). Getting caught and being killed. Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66, 36, 23-46.
Pohlman, Annie, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Jamarani, Maryam (2014). Stigma and exclusion in cross-cultural contexts. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 11 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.5130/portal.v11i1.3749
Pohlman, Annie (2014). Incitement to genocide against a political group: the anti-communist killings in Indonesia. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 11 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.5130/portal.v11i1.3292
Pohlman, Annie (2013). Documentation: reports by human rights and victim advocacy organisations in Indonesia: reconciling the violence of 1965. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 32 (3), 143-165.
Pohlman, Annie (2013). Introduction. The massacres of 1965-1966: new interpretations and the current debate in Indonesia. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 32 (3), 3-9. doi: 10.1177/186810341303200301
Pohlman, Annie (2013). Child-raising, childbirth and abortion in extremis: women's stories of caring for and losing children during the violence of 1965-1966 in Indonesia. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 32 (3), 93-114. doi: 10.1177/186810341303200305
Jessee, Erin and Pohlman, Annie (2013). Introduction: confronting mass atrocities in oral historical practice. Oral History Forum, 33 (Special Issue 2), 1-6.
Pohlman, Annie (2013). Telling stories about torture in Indonesia: managing risk in a culture of impunity. Oral History Forum, 33 (SI), 1-17.
Pohlman, Annie (2010). Propaganda, misogyny and incitement to massacre: The Indonesian military's campaign against Communist women following the 1 October 1965 coup. Analisis Sejarah, 1 (1), 1-15.
Pohlman, Annie (2008). Testimonio and telling women's narratives of genocide, torture and political imprisonment in post-Suharto Indonesia. Life Writing, 5 (1), 47-60. doi: 10.1080/14484520801902332
Pohlman, Annie (2005). (Book review) Wife or Worker? Asian Women and Migration. Asian Studies Review, 29 (1), 106-106. doi: 10.1080/10357820500139489
Pohlman, A. (2004). Review of Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett (eds), Violence Against Women in Asian Societies (London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003). Asian Studies Review, 28 (3), 343-344.
Pohlman, Anne (2004). A fragment of a story: Gerwani and Tapol experiences. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, 1 (10).
Conference Papers
Pohlman, Annie (2020). Reading the CHART Archives for Women's Experiences during the Indonesian Occupation. Timor-Leste Studies Association's Understanding Timor-Leste, Dili, Timor-Leste, 27-28 June 2019. Hawthorn, VIC Australia: Swinburne Press.
Pohlman, Annie (2010). Preventing future mass atrocities in Indonesia: Implementing the responsibility to protect within a culture of impunity. 18th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Adelaide, S.A., Australia, 5-8 July 2010. Adelaide, S.A., Australia: Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA).
Pohlman, A. (2004). Women and the Indonesian killings of 1965-1966: Gender variables and possible directions for research. Asia Examined, Canberra, 29 June - 2 July 2004. Canberra: ASAA Asian Studies Association of Australia.
Thesis
Anne Pohlman (2011). Ashes in My Mouth: Women, Violence and Testimony during the Indonesian Massacres of 1965-1966. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comp Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland.
Research Reports
Melvin, Jess, Pohlman, Annie, Hadi, Faisal, Christanty, Linda and Yusuf, Fidaus (2021). Enforced disappearances (for the Final Report, Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission). Banda Aceh, Indonesia: KKR-Aceh (Komisi Kebenaran dan Rekonsiliasi Aceh/ Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission).
Annie Pohlman, Jess Melvin, Galuh Wandita and Putri Kanesia (2021). Torture: Chapter of the Final Report, the Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission (KKR-Aceh). Banda Aceh: KKR-Aceh (Komisi Kebenaran dan Rekonsiliasi Aceh, Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission).
Hudghton, Fiona, Kopp, Heather, Nataprawira, Halim, Pohlman, Annie and Goebel, Zane (2021). The strategic importance of Indonesian literacy to Queensland: reinvigorating Indonesian language learning. Brisbane, Australia: BBBIQ (Balai Bahasa dan Budaya Indonesia, Queensland).
Pohlman, Annie (2018). The malignant problem of torture in Indonesia: a legacy of atrocity and the failures of prevention. Annual report series on torture, KontraS (special themed report) Jakarta, Indonesia: KontraS (Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, Indonesia).
Pohlman, Annie (2015). Evidence Brief: Sexual Violence (Evidence Brief for the Prosecutor, International People's Tribunal on Crimes against Humanity in Indonesia 1965-66). The Hague: International People's Tribunal for 1965.
Pohlman, Annie (2010). Indonesia and Post-New Order Reforms: Challenges and Opportunities for Promoting the Responsibility to Protect. Research Report on Indonesia No. 1