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Bernas, 19 Juli 2017: surat pembaca 'Statuta Roma belum juga diratifikasi'
Bernas, 19 July 2017: reader's letter 'Rome Statute still not ratified'
Bernas, 19 July 2017, p. 4: Jurnal Perempuan letter on the unratified Rome Statute listing unresolved cases from 1965–66 to 1998 and naming Gerwani women as targets of sexual violence.
Bernas, 19 Juli 2017, hlm. 4: surat Jurnal Perempuan tentang Statuta Roma yang belum diratifikasi, mendaftar kasus belum selesai dari 1965–66 hingga 1998 dan menyebut perempuan Gerwani sebagai sasaran kekerasan seksual.
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- 2017-07-19
- Creator
- Bernas
- Publication
- Bernas
- Document type
- newspaper article (Newspaper page (Yogyakarta daily, opinion/Wacana 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 1530; 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)
- Harian Bernas. (2017, July 19). Harian Bernas, p. 4 [Wacana]. Yogyakarta.
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- 01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Later Indonesian press (1977-2021) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Bernas (1992-2017) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Bernas (2017-07-19) - p. 04, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 1530].jpg
- OCR / text
- Fair (0.864) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
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- 01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Later Indonesian press (1977-2021) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Bernas (1992-2017) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)
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- condensed from full annotation
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