What is world history that not many people know about?
13.06.2025 17:55
Despite her old age, she continued to fight for the rights of Jugun Ianfu women. Representing her fellow women, she fought for justice, demanding that the Japanese government apologize officially and personally and provide compensation to the women who became "lust slaves" of the Japanese army during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia.
I will tell you some of the stories of Jugun Ianfu who have hurt the psychology and physical of several Indonesian women. The horror of adolescence colored by empty spaces like prisons.
Initially, Jugun Ianfu itself was divided into 3 recruitments. First , voluntary: where Japanese women themselves voluntarily became part of Jugun Ianfu because they felt it was a devotion to the country. Second, the lure of a better future: where Korean, Chinese and Malay women eventually became victims because of the guise of getting a decent education and a bright future. Third , coercion: yes, Indonesian women accepted that bitter thing.
In one day, Mardiyem was even forced to serve up to 6 men until she started bleeding.
But the sad part did not end immediately. Until the end of her life, what she fought for was not realized. To survive the rest of her life, the Jugun Ianfu only relied on donations from volunteers.
Jugun Ianfu .
Mardiyem (Late), the fighter for justice for Jugun Ianfu.
There may be many more women who witnessed the cruelty of Jugun Ianfu in Indonesia, but their names are never known. Even the victims of Jugun Ianfu themselves are estimated to reach 20,000 to 30,000. Reading this historical story has a special place in me. A bitter story that even when I asked my friends, many of them did not know. I remember a film that tells the same story.
One day a posture visited Rita's house and told her parents about Jugun Ianfu. The posture suggested that Rita cut her hair short to resemble a man, of course because she wanted to protect Rita.
How do we greet in German, French, Spanish, and Italian?
With all my might I tried to fight to escape. But, the grip of the strong and muscular man's hand became stronger. My body was lifted up to the edge of the bed, even pushed against the wall. I was sad and it hurt so much.
Sri Sukanti was repeatedly injected with contraceptive pills in her left hip and the long-term impact was that she was unable to have children.
After Rita's appearance changed, and her name changed to Richard to make the disguise look perfect, in mid-February 1943, Japan cleared Jambi. All Dutch citizens (at that time Rita was of Indo-Dutch descent) were herded for questioning at a police station under Japanese supervision.
I have BPD. Why do I destroy everyone I love?
At the age of 9, Sri Sukanti was forced to serve Ogawa—a squad commander. At the same time, little Sri Sukanti was taken to Ogawa's residence to carry out his depraved actions.
I had to continue my disguise as a boy for a very long time.
My father fainted when he saw me being taken. He thought he was going to kill me. When the Japanese took me, they invited me to sleep, stroked my buttocks.
We want to protect you from soldiers who want to take advantage of young girls like you.
It was a nightmare for women colonized by Japan during
Reading the confession of the late Ibu Mardiyem, I don't dare even imagine how bitter that time was. What they did was truly despicable.
What would you do if you found out that someone had broken into your home while you were sleeping?
World War II that was not touched by school textbooks . The women became sex slaves of the Japanese army at that time (1942–1945), where Jugun Ianfu included Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Malayan (Malaysia and Singapore), Thai, Filipino, Indonesian, Myanmar, Vietnamese, Indo, Europeans in several colonial areas (British, Dutch, French, Portuguese), and Pacific islanders.
If I do not dare to expose myself in the international world to deal with jugun ianfu , then jugun ianfu will never get justice. I am tired of being mocked. I want everyone, especially the younger generation, to know everything. Not just bits and pieces; so that they know and understand that being jugun ianfu is not what we want and that we are not prostitutes.
The women the soldiers were looking for were young girls who were not yet able to protect themselves.
During the Japanese occupation, he lived in prison camps in Jambi and Palembang.
Rita, a lucky woman who managed to escape from the nightmare because of her disguise.
After Japan lost the war, Rita returned to life as a young woman. She married and had four children.
Portrait of Rita la Fontaine de Clercq Zubli in her memoirs about the Japanese occupation of 1942-45. ( Mahandis Y. Thamrin/National Geographic Indonesia )
Sri Sukanti (deceased), continued to survive in the face of misery.