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Harian Neraca, 13 Maret 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (60)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (60): the 1 October abductions and Djamilah's 'confession'

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Harian Neraca, 13 Mar 1989, p. 10: instalment 60 on the 1 October abductions; says about 100 Gerwani members of AURI-trained 'Sukarelawan Kita' were at Lubang Buaya, citing the 'confession' of Nyonya Djamilah.

Harian Neraca, 13 Maret 1989, hlm. 10: bagian 60 tentang penculikan 1 Oktober; menyatakan sekitar 100 anggota Gerwani 'Sukarelawan Kita' latihan AURI berada di Lubang Buaya, mengutip 'pengakuan' Nyonya Djamilah.

People

DjamilahSoegiarso Soerojo

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Indonesian Air Force

Places

Lubang Buaya

Events

30 September MovementArmy press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderNew Orderpropaganda and mediahistoriography

Tags

serialanti-communismnew order narrativemilitary trainingatrocity rumours

Details

Date
1989-03-13
Creator
Harian Neraca
Publication
Harian Neraca
Document type
newspaper article (Newspaper page (Jakarta economic daily))
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 SIDAK digital newspaper archive (free access, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 per site), item id 96684; 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)
Harian Neraca. (1989, March 13). Harian Neraca [Newspaper page], p. 10. Jakarta.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Later Indonesian press (1977-2021) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Harian Neraca (1989) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Harian Neraca (1989-03-13) - p. 10, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 96684].jpg
OCR / text
Good (0.927) · 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)/Harian Neraca (1989) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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