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Bali Post, 7 April 2000: 'Pencabutan Tap MPRS No. XXV/1966'

Bali Post, 7 April 2000: Revoking MPRS Decree No. XXV/1966

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Bali Post, 7 Apr 2000, p. 7: editorial on Wahid's proposal to revoke the 1966 PKI ban, saying the military's stories of sadism by Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat made the killings 'barbarity' in public memory and enabled mass slaughter.

Bali Post, 7 April 2000, hlm. 7: tajuk tentang usul Gus Dur mencabut larangan PKI 1966, menyebut cerita militer tentang kesadisan Gerwani dan Pemuda Rakyat membuat pembunuhan menjadi 'kebiadaban' dalam ingatan publik dan memungkinkan pembantaian massal.

People

Abdurrahman Wahid

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)People's YouthProvisional People's Consultative Assembly

Places

Lubang Buaya

Events

Wahid's proposal to revoke the 1966 PKI banMPRS Decree XXV/1966

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slandermemory, testimony and justicepropaganda and mediaNew Order

Tags

editorialanti-communismsexual slander

Details

Date
2000-04-07
Creator
Bali Post
Publication
Bali Post
Document type
newspaper article (Newspaper page (Bali provincial daily, opinion page))
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
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 185808; 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. (2000, April 7). Bali Post [Daily], p. 7 (opinion page). 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 (2000-04-07) - p. 07, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 185808].jpg
OCR / text
Fair (0.829) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · 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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