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JUGUN IANFU INDONESIA (COLORED VERSION)
Digital Art, Graphic Design
Indonesian Jugun Ianfu / Troostmeisjes / Comfort Women
Dedikasi kami sebagai pemuda kreatif untuk memberikan sebuah karya apa adanya kepada tanah air tercinta kami negara INDONESIA. Tidak hanya mengingat pejuang bertaruh nyawa berperang melawan penjajah, kami juga mengapresiasi dan hormat kepada beliau-beliau para wanita yang berjuang dan ditindas dari sisi moral. Sehingga kita sebagai generasi merdeka penerus mereka kadang tidak ingat rasanya sakit dan perihnya kehidupan beliau dijamannya. Di 17 Agustus 2016 ini mari kita beramal lewat doa kepada beliau para pejuang wanita supaya diberikan kebahagiaan menjalani sisa hidupnya, lewat doa pula kita berikan kepada beliau-beliau yang sudah pergi ke dunia selanjutnya supaya diberikan tempat tertinggi di sisi Yang punya segalanya.
- Wainem.
(1925, Mojogedang, Central Java) was taken from home and forced into prostitution, first in Solo for a year and then for two years in Yogyakarta. During the day, she had to work in a warehouse. Sometimes she was raped right then and there, but most of the time was taken by soldiers to their rooms in the barracks compound. “An doctor tested us every week for pregnancy. I never became pregnant then.” After the war, she walked some 60 miles to get home. She would rather not be reminded of what happened in that warehouse. “It’s been so long ago. My son, who wasn’t born then, already has grandchildren now.”
- Wagiyem
(1929, Tawangmangu, Central Java) was taken from her village and forced into prostitution at a barracks for three months. Every day she had to apply makeup with powder and lipstick. At night, soldiers took her to their rooms in the barracks complex. “I was grabbed and kissed and such. I was afraid they would kill me but also that I would get pregnant.” When she gained freedom at the end of the war, it turned out that her younger sister Semi (also among the women portrayed in this project) and an older sister, too, had been sexually abused by soldiers.
- Icih
After her first husband was shot to death by the Japanese, Icih (1926, Cireunghas, West Java) was put to work in nearby barracks, locked up and raped and battered almost daily for three years by the commander and another serviceman. At the end of the war she went home very thin and sick. “My mother used traditional herbs to heal my wounds, rubbed me with crushed leaves and massaged my body. I wasn’t able to walk anymore, not even capable of pronouncing my name.” Icih didn’t remarry until eight years after the war. “My husband knew I was taken by the Japanese, I told him myself, but he didn’t care.” The marriage ended in divorce, as did her next 10 marriages. She was never able to bear children; her womb was damaged by internal injuries sustained at the barracks. She says she is at peace with her existence, but the rapes continue to haunt her. “My body can’t forget it.”
- Paini
From age 13, Paini (1930, Semarang, Central Java) performed forced labor at the local barracks. In the evening, she was taken from home to the barracks and raped repeatedly. Paini’s husband would have nothing to with her after the war. Her second marriage, with an old widower, failed after only five months. When she started a family with her third husband ‘I told him I had been “used”, but he liked me anyway. We enjoyed each others company a lot. That’s why I have a lot of children now and grandchildren.’
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Jugun Ianfu / Troostmeisjes / Comfort Women
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
(William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun)
Raping women seems to be a normal byproduct of wars. During World War II, the Japanese military even set up a system for sex slavery: Tens of thousands of “comfort women” in Asia were forced into prostitution at military brothels. In addition, many girls were abused sexually in railroad wagons, factory warehouses or night after night at home. Most of these women have suffered physical and emotional consequences ever since. Photographer Jan Banning and writer Hilde Janssen visited Indonesian women who during the war were victims of forced sexual labor. In the exhibition, they are break the persistent taboo against speaking out on the issue, thereby painting a gripping picture of this hidden history.
Source: www.janbanning.com
Artwork: Ach Ibnu Aqil X Yoga Silone
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
(William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun)
Raping women seems to be a normal byproduct of wars. During World War II, the Japanese military even set up a system for sex slavery: Tens of thousands of “comfort women” in Asia were forced into prostitution at military brothels. In addition, many girls were abused sexually in railroad wagons, factory warehouses or night after night at home. Most of these women have suffered physical and emotional consequences ever since. Photographer Jan Banning and writer Hilde Janssen visited Indonesian women who during the war were victims of forced sexual labor. In the exhibition, they are break the persistent taboo against speaking out on the issue, thereby painting a gripping picture of this hidden history.
Source: www.janbanning.com
Artwork: Ach Ibnu Aqil X Yoga Silone
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