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Bali Post, 12 Mei 2000: kisah korban penyerangan kantor PDI

Bali Post, 12 May 2000: story of a victim of the PDI office attack

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Bali Post, 12 May 2000, p. 10 and 'Aspirasi': victim of the 27 July 1996 PDI attack says police forced her to strip because officers were convinced she was a 'former Gerwani'; Gerwani as an accusation against women.

Bali Post, 12 Mei 2000, hlm. 10 dan 'Aspirasi': korban penyerangan kantor PDI 27 Juli 1996 menyatakan polisi memaksanya telanjang karena petugas yakin ia 'mantan Gerwani'; Gerwani sebagai tuduhan terhadap perempuan.

People

Sandra Fertasari Putri

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Indonesian Democratic PartyJakarta Regional Police

Places

Jakarta

Topics

memory, testimony and justiceNew OrderLubang Buaya and sexual slander

Tags

sexual violencestigmatortureeyewitness account

Details

Date
2000-05-12
Creator
Bali Post
Publication
Bali Post
Document type
newspaper article (Newspaper page (Balinese daily), with part of facing 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 SIDAK digital newspaper archive (free access, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 per site), item id 186540; single page JPEG found by a "Gerwani" keyword search and downloaded 2026-10-15/16 via the Claude desktop browser. 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, May 12). Bali Post [Newspaper page], p. 10 (with part of facing p. 11, Aspirasi). 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 (2000-05-12) - p. 10, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 186540].jpg
OCR / text
Fair (0.836) · 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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