GA-00274 1975-07-30 relevance A public
Indonesian Women (Tharunka, 30 Jul 1975)
Indonesian Women (Tharunka, 30 July 1975)
Tharunka (UNSW student paper), 30 July 1975, p. 8, article 'Indonesian Women' on women political prisoners after 1965. It describes Gerwani as the largest left women's organisation, targeted by a press campaign depicting members as sex-maniacs and Lubang Buaya participants, and banned in October 1965. It reports at least 1,000 women still detained, Plantungan camp with 386 women, torture including sexual assault, two known trials, and hardships for prisoners' families. OCR is scrambled.
Tharunka (koran mahasiswa UNSW), 30 Juli 1975, hlm. 8, artikel 'Indonesian Women' tentang tahanan politik wanita pasca-1965. Menggambarkan Gerwani sebagai organisasi wanita kiri terbesar, disasar kampanye pers yang melukiskan anggotanya maniak seks dan peserta Lubang Buaya, dan dilarang Oktober 1965. Melaporkan sedikitnya 1.000 wanita masih ditahan, kamp Plantungan dengan 386 wanita, penyiksaan termasuk kekerasan seksual, dua pengadilan yang diketahui, serta penderitaan keluarga tahanan. OCR teracak.
“Gerwani 'took the brunt of the attack in a vicious campaign deliberately aimed at arousing passions by depicting it as an organisation of sex-maniacs'; Plantungan camp holds 386 women (p. 8).”
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- 1975-07-30
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- 01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Australian press (1949-1982) - articles on Gerwani and members (Trove)/Tharunka (1975-07-30) - Indonesian Women [Trove 230399867].pdf
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- Good (0.956) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
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- 01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Australian press (1949-1982) - articles on Gerwani and members (Trove)
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- full text read; OCR largely unreadable
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- GA-00275 Tharunka (1975-07-30) - Indonesian Women [Trove 230399867].txt
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