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Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu, Agustus 1968 (edisi Minggu)

Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu, August 1968 (Sunday Edition)

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Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu, Agustus 1968 (edisi Minggu). Sunday edition, Independence Day issue: mostly entertainment; the single Gerwani item is a boxed city-column feature on a young jamu seller from Semarang, joking about Gerwani.

Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu, Agustus 1968 (edisi Minggu). Edisi Minggu Hari Kemerdekaan: kebanyakan hiburan; satu-satunya butir Gerwani adalah fitur kolom kota tentang penjual jamu muda dari Semarang yang bernada bercanda soal Gerwani.

People

Mbakyu Siem

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)

Places

SemarangJakarta

Topics

propaganda and mediaNew Order

Tags

national day celebrationfeature articlesexual slander

Details

Date
1968-08
Creator
Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu
Publication
Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu
Document type
newspaper issue (Newspaper issue (army weekly, Mingguan Angkatan Bersendjata))
Language
Indonesian (old spelling)
Perspective
Indonesian army/New Order voice
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1967–1979
Source archive
Perpusnas Khastara | (file Q665_Angkatan_Bersendjata_1968_08_Minggu_III_Th_IV_No_212_001.pdf) · source link
Access
Perpusnas Khastara digital collection (free PDF; catalogue id 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)
Mingguan Angkatan Bersendjata [Edisi Pusat]. (1968, August, 3rd week). No. 212, Tahun ke IV [Weekly newspaper issue, 4 pp.]. Jakarta. Perpusnas Khastara 887828.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Angkatan Bersendjata (1967-1969) - issues mentioning Gerwani, Sulami, Sudjinah (Perpusnas Khastara)/Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu (1968-08) - Minggu III, No. 212, issue, Gerwani p. 4 [Khastara 887828].pdf
OCR / text
Fair (0.879) · proof-reading: key passages (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Angkatan Bersendjata (1967-1969) - issues mentioning Gerwani, Sulami, Sudjinah (Perpusnas Khastara)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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