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Berita Yudha, 23 Oktober 1966 (edisi Minggu)

Berita Yudha, 23 October 1966 (Sunday edition)

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Berita Yudha, 23 Oktober 1966 (edisi Minggu). Concluding instalment of Sukitman's account: in the lit kitchen tent at Lubang Buaya on the night of 1 Oct 1965 he saw 'many PR-Gerwani volunteers'.

Berita Yudha, 23 Oktober 1966 (edisi Minggu). Bagian akhir kisah Sukitman: di tenda dapur yang terang di Lubang Buaya pada malam 1 Oktober 1965 ia melihat 'banyak sukwan-sukwati PR-Gerwani'.

People

Sukitman

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)People's Youth

Places

Lubang Buaya

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderpropaganda and mediamemory, testimony and justice

Tags

eyewitness accountserial

Details

Date
1966-10-23
Creator
Berita Yudha
Publication
Berita Yudha
Document type
newspaper issue (Newspaper issue (army daily, Sunday edition 'Berita Yudha Minggu'), 4 pages)
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
Access
Perpusnas Khastara (khastara.perpusnas.go.id), free PDF of the Berita Yudha issue, catalogue id 888057 in the 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 Minggu. (1966, October 23). [No. 250, 4 pp.; includes "Tjeritera API Sukitman satu²nja saksi pebunuhan di L.B.," pp. 1–2]. Berita Yudha Minggu (Jakarta). Perpusnas Khastara (888057).
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Berita Yudha (1965-1966) - issues mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)/Berita Yudha (1966-10-23) - issue, Gerwani p. 1 [Khastara 888057].pdf
OCR / text
Fair (0.859) · proof-reading: key passages (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Berita Yudha (1965-1966) - issues mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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