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Bali Post, 16 Februari 2001: 'Ditentang, usulan WTS distempel'

Bali Post, 16 February 2001: Opposed, proposal to stamp sex workers

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Bali Post, 16 Feb 2001, p. 14: a radio caller opposes stamping sex workers by recalling that in the G30S period 'Gerwani women were stamped' though innocent.

Bali Post, 16 Februari 2001, hlm. 14: seorang penelepon radio menentang usul pelabelan WTS dengan mengingat bahwa pada masa G30S 'wanita Gerwani distempel' padahal tak bersalah.

People

L.K. SuryaniKarsika

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)

Places

DenpasarBali

Topics

memory, testimony and justicearrests and detentionwomen's rights and emancipation

Tags

radio broadcast monitoringsexual slanderprostitutionstigmacommemoration

Details

Date
2001-02-16
Creator
Bali Post
Publication
Bali Post
Document type
newspaper article (Newspaper page (Balinese daily))
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 192485; 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. (2001, February 16). Bali Post [Newspaper page], p. 14. 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 (2001-02-16) - p. 14, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 192485].jpg
OCR / text
Fair (0.843) · 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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