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2 itemsTopic: Gerwani organisation ✕Place: Java ✕Event: Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani ✕
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GA-01534 1965-10-11 The Scotsman rel A licensed

Mass arrests in Indonesia: 3500 Communists detained during round-up (The Scotsman, 11 Oktober 1965)

Mass arrests in Indonesia: 3,500 Communists detained during round-up (The Scotsman, 11 October 1965)

The Scotsman, 11 Oct 1965 (Djakarta, Sunday): mass arrests of Communists after the reported discovery of arms and a radio transmitter at burned PKI headquarters, with detainees put at 3,500 including rebels in Java. Among those arrested are Gerwani members alleged to have tortured the six generals whose mutilated bodie

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