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Bali Post, 30 September 1996: 'Dr. Amien Rais: Komunis, ideologi paling kejam'

Amien Rais: Communism, the cruellest ideology

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Bali Post, 30 Sept 1996, p. 1: at a youth seminar on the 'latent danger of communism' Amien Rais says Gerwani 'slashed' the generals; Taufiq Ismail cites S.K. Trimurti as ex-Gerwani; PRD branded 'new PKI'.

Bali Post, 30 September 1996, hlm. 1: pada sarasehan pemuda tentang 'bahaya laten komunisme' Amien Rais menyebut Gerwani 'menyilet' para jenderal; Taufiq Ismail menyebut S.K. Trimurti bekas Gerwani; PRD dicap 'PKI baru'.

People

Amien RaisTaufiq IsmailS.K. TrimurtiAkbar Tandjung

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of IndonesiaPeople's Democratic Party

Places

JakartaLubang Buaya

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderNew Orderpropaganda and mediamemory, testimony and justice

Tags

anti-communismsexual slander

Details

Date
1996-09-30
Creator
Bali Post
Publication
Bali Post
Document type
newspaper article (Newspaper page (Bali provincial daily, front page, eve of G30S anniversary))
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Indonesian mainstream/other press
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1980–1998
Source archive
Monumen Pers Nasional SIDAK · source link
Access
Monumen Pers Nasional (MPN) SIDAK digital newspaper archive (free access; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 per site), single page image, MPN SIDAK id 166993; downloaded 2026-10-15/16 via the Claude desktop browser after a 'Gerwani' keyword search. Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Bali Post. (1996, September 30). Bali Post [Daily], p. 1. Denpasar.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Later Indonesian press (1977-2021) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Bali Post (1992-2002) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Bali Post (1996-09-30) - p. 01, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 166993].jpg
OCR / text
Good (0.89) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Later Indonesian press (1977-2021) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Bali Post (1992-2002) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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