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Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Oktober 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 October 1966

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Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Oktober 1966. Front-page item: a women's action front states that the 'barbarous acts of Gerwani/PKI at Lubang Buaya' do not spring from the character of Indonesian women, distancing 'true' women from Gerwani.

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Oktober 1966. Butir halaman depan: sebuah front aksi perempuan menyatakan 'perbuatan biadab Gerwani/PKI di Lubang Buaya' bukan berasal dari kepribadian perempuan Indonesia, memisahkan perempuan 'sejati' dari Gerwani.

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of IndonesiaIndonesian Women's Action Front

Places

Lubang Buaya

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderpropaganda and mediawomen's rights and emancipation

Tags

atrocity rumoursrenunciation and self-dissolution

Details

Date
1966-10-04
Creator
Angkatan Bersendjata
Publication
Angkatan Bersendjata
Document type
newspaper issue (Newspaper issue (army daily))
Language
Indonesian (old spelling)
Perspective
Indonesian army/New Order voice
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1965–1966
Source archive
Perpusnas Khastara | (catalog https://khastara.perpusnas.go.id/koleksi-digital/detail/?catId=887828) · source link
Access
Perpusnas Khastara digital collection (free PDF; catalogue id 887828 in file name), downloaded 2026-10-15/16 via the Claude desktop browser. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Angkatan Bersenjata. (1966, October 4). Angkatan Bersenjata [Army daily newspaper, Edisi Pusat], 2(403), 1–4. Jakarta: Yayasan "Manggala" Press.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Angkatan Bersendjata (1966) - issues mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)/Angkatan Bersendjata (1966-10-04) - issue, Gerwani p. 1 [Khastara 887828].pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.89) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Angkatan Bersendjata (1966) - issues mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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