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2 itemsTopic: Gerwani organisation ✕Organisation: Angkatan Bersendjata (newspaper) ✕Event: Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani ✕
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GA-02376 1965-10-28 rel B licensed

Press Information Relating to Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: South and East Asia (217)

CIA, Press information relating to insurgency and counterinsurgency: South and East Asia (217), 28 October 1965

CIA Foreign Documents Division compilation of Indonesian, Malaysian, Burmese and Cambodian press, 28 Oct 1965. Djakarta's Angkatan Bersendjata (early Oct) is quoted on the 30 September Movement and the Lubang Buaya killings: bodies found near a bivouac of Gerwani and Pemuda Rakjat volunteers, Suharto's remark about a G

GA-02296 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Propaganda Hitam terhadap Gerwani

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Black propaganda against Gerwani (Ita Fatia Nadia)

Op-ed by Ita Fatia Nadia in Tempo (2 Oct 2021) tracing the army-controlled press campaign from 7 Oct 1965 that cast Gerwani as sexually sadistic, contradicted by the military doctors' autopsy (Roebiono Kertapati). It links the slander to the mass killings, Kowani's expulsion of Gerwani (29 Oct 1965), Lubang Buaya volun