GA-00292 1967-04-03 relevance B public
A fighting editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)
A Fighting Editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)
Canberra Times, 3 Apr 1967, p. 2: Creighton Burns profiles Jussac Margo Rahardjo, editor of Pelopor Jogja, a former Radio Australia announcer turned anti-Communist propagandist. In 1965 local authorities, he says, used Gerwani, which then controlled the Jogjakarta federation of women's associations, as 'the lever' to prosecute him for pornography over a 1957 short story. Background on Gerwani local power.
Canberra Times, 3 April 1967, hlm. 2: Creighton Burns memprofilkan Jussac Margo Rahardjo, redaktur Pelopor Jogja, mantan penyiar Radio Australia yang menjadi propagandis antikomunis. Ia mengaku pada 1965 penguasa lokal memakai Gerwani, yang saat itu menguasai federasi organisasi perempuan di Yogyakarta, sebagai 'pengungkit' untuk menuntutnya soal pornografi akibat cerpen 1957. Latar kekuatan lokal Gerwani.
“Gerwani, the Communist women's organisation, which then controlled the Federation of Women's Associations in Jogjakarta, was used as the lever to force the local authorities into prosecuting Jussac on a charge of writing pornography. (p. 2)”
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