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Batam Pos, 2 Februari 2015: 'Kamus Dunia: Gerwani'

Batam Pos, 2 February 2015: 'World Dictionary: Gerwani'

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Batam Pos, 2 Feb 2015, p. 2: reference box 'Gerwani' (from Kamus Sejarah Lengkap) defining Gerwani as a PKI-affiliated women's organisation, recounting Gerwis's founding at Semarang on 4 June 1950 from six groups, with an archival photo of a marriage-law rally.

Batam Pos, 2 Februari 2015, hlm. 2: kotak rujukan 'Gerwani' (dari Kamus Sejarah Lengkap) yang mendefinisikan Gerwani sebagai organisasi perempuan berafiliasi PKI, menyebut pendirian Gerwis di Semarang 4 Juni 1950 dari enam kelompok, dengan foto arsip rapat tuntutan UU perkawinan.

People

Danto Pamungkas

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis)Communist Party of Indonesia

Places

Semarang

Events

Founding of Gerwis

Topics

Gerwani organisationhistoriographymarriage law and polygamymemory, testimony and justice

Tags

reference entry

Details

Date
2015-02-02
Creator
Batam Pos
Publication
Batam Pos
Document type
newspaper article (Newspaper page (Batam regional 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
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Monumen Pers Nasional SIDAK (free, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 per site), item 41499; 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)
Batam Pos. (2015, February 2). Batam Pos, p. 2 [Opini]. Batam.
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01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Later Indonesian press (1977-2021) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Batam Pos (2015) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Batam Pos (2015-02-02) - p. 02, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 41499].jpg
OCR / text
Fair (0.858) · 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)/Batam Pos (2015) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)
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condensed from full annotation

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