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Berita Yudha, 9 November 1965
Berita Yudha, 9 November 1965. Front-page 'Peranan dan jeritan kaum ibu' on a demonstration of over 30,000 Jakarta women (8 Nov) organised by the anti-G30S front's women's section; key document of the gendered campaign against Gerwani.
Berita Yudha, 9 November 1965. 'Peranan dan jeritan kaum ibu' di halaman depan tentang demonstrasi lebih dari 30.000 perempuan Jakarta (8 November) oleh seksi wanita front anti-G30S; dokumen penting kampanye bergender terhadap Gerwani.
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- Date
- 1965-11-09
- Creator
- Berita Yudha
- Publication
- Berita Yudha
- 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=888057) · source link
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- Perpusnas Khastara (Perpustakaan Nasional RI digital collection, free PDF; catalogue id 888057 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)
- Berita Yudha. (1965, November 9). Berita Yudha [Daily newspaper], 1(270), 1–4. Djakarta.
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Berita Yudha (1965-1966) - issues mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)/Berita Yudha (1965-11-09) - issue, Gerwani p. 1, 2 [Khastara 888057].pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.884) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Berita Yudha (1965-1966) - issues mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)
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- condensed from full annotation
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