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Berita Yudha, 8 Januari 1998: 'PKI menculik, membunuh dan membuang mayatnya ke Lubang Buaya' (M.T. Harjono)

Berita Yudha, 8 January 1998: 'PKI abducted, killed and dumped the bodies in Lubang Buaya' (M.T. Harjono)

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Berita Yudha, 8 Jan 1998, p. 4: final instalment of a hero biography of M.T. Harjono stating PKI antecedents like Pemuda Rakyat, CGMI and Gerwani used volunteer training as a mask, as at Lubang Buaya.

Berita Yudha, 8 Januari 1998, hlm. 4: bagian akhir biografi pahlawan M.T. Harjono yang menyatakan antek PKI seperti Pemuda Rakyat, CGMI, dan Gerwani memakai pelatihan sukarelawan sebagai kedok, seperti di Lubang Buaya.

People

M.T. Haryono

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)People's YouthUnified Movement of Indonesian StudentsCommunist Party of Indonesia

Places

Lubang Buaya

Events

30 September MovementExhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderNew Orderbiographypropaganda and media

Tags

profilemilitary training

Details

Date
1998-01-08
Creator
Berita Yudha
Publication
Berita Yudha
Document type
newspaper article (Newspaper page (army-affiliated daily, military/security page))
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Indonesian army/New Order voice
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 117762; 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)
Berita Yudha. (1998, January 8). Berita Yudha [Daily], p. 4. Jakarta.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Later Indonesian press (1977-2021) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Berita Yudha (1982-1998) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Berita Yudha (1998-01-08) - p. 04, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 117762].jpg
OCR / text
Good (0.916) · 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)/Berita Yudha (1982-1998) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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