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Berita Yudha, 27 September 1968: 'Mendjongsong Hari Kesaktian Pantjasila'

Berita Yudha, 27 September 1968: Approaching Pancasila Sanctity Day

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Berita Yudha, 27 September 1968: 'Mendjongsong Hari Kesaktian Pantjasila'. Commemorative feature reprinting Yudha's 1965 Lubang Buaya exhumation photos and the 'Ikrar', and celebrating Victor Fic's paper as a 'slap' to the Cornell Paper and Wertheim.

Berita Yudha, 27 September 1968: 'Mendjongsong Hari Kesaktian Pantjasila'. Fitur peringatan yang mencetak ulang foto penggalian Lubang Buaya 1965 dan 'Ikrar', serta memuji makalah Victor Fic sebagai 'tamparan' bagi Cornell Paper dan Wertheim.

People

Victor M. FicW.F. Wertheim

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)

Places

Lubang Buaya

Events

First Hari Kesaktian PancasilaExhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderhistoriographypropaganda and mediaNew Order

Tags

revisionist reassessmentatrocity rumours

Details

Date
1968-09-27
Creator
Berita Yudha
Publication
Berita Yudha
Document type
newspaper issue (Newspaper issue (army daily, Berita Yudha))
Language
Indonesian (old spelling)
Perspective
Indonesian army/New Order voice
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1967–1979
Source archive
Perpusnas Khastara | (file Q655_Berita_Yudha_1968_09_27_Th_IV_No_201_001.pdf) · source link
Access
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 [Harian Umum, Edisi Pusat]. (1968, September 27). No. 201, Th. IV [Newspaper issue, 4 pp.]. Jakarta. Perpusnas Khastara 888057.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Berita Yudha (1968) - issues mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)/Berita Yudha (1968-09-27) - issue, Gerwani p. 3 [Khastara 888057].pdf
OCR / text
Fair (0.808) · proof-reading: key passages (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Berita Yudha (1968) - issues mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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