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Berita Yudha, 24 Oktober 1966: 'Hanja seorang Gerwani dapat demikian'
Berita Yudha, 24 October 1966: 'Only a Gerwani could do this'
Berita Yudha, 24 Oktober 1966: 'Hanja seorang Gerwani dapat demikian'. Front-page photo feature with staged photos re-enacting the murder of Hasnah Djohan by Aminah Achmad, who allegedly cut her throat and mutilated the body: 'Only a Gerwani could do this'.
Berita Yudha, 24 Oktober 1966: 'Hanja seorang Gerwani dapat demikian'. Fitur foto halaman depan dengan foto rekayasa yang meniru pembunuhan Hasnah Djohan oleh Aminah Achmad yang diduga menggorok dan memutilasi korban: 'Hanya seorang Gerwani dapat demikian'.
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- Date
- 1966-10-24
- Creator
- Berita Yudha
- Publication
- Berita Yudha
- Document type
- newspaper issue (Newspaper issue (army daily), 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. (1966, October 24). [Issue No. 251, 4 pp.; includes "Hanja seorang Gerwani dapat demikian," pp. 1–2]. Berita Yudha (Jakarta). Perpusnas Khastara (888057).
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- 01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Berita Yudha (1965-1966) - issues mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)/Berita Yudha (1966-10-24) - issue, Gerwani p. 1 [Khastara 888057].pdf
- OCR / text
- Fair (0.798) · 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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