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Merdeka, 8 Agustus 1951
Merdeka, 8 August 1951: Peace Committee organisations form 17 August committee
Merdeka, 8 Agustus 1951 (hlm. 2): mass organisations under the Peace Committee form their own 17 August committee with a 'peace programme', Gerwis and Lekra running the programme section.
Merdeka, 8 Agustus 1951 (hlm. 2): ormas di bawah Komite Perdamaian membentuk panitia 17 Agustus sendiri dengan 'program perdamaian', Gerwis dan Lekra memegang seksi program.
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- Date
- 1951-08-08
- Creator
- Merdeka
- Publication
- Merdeka
- Document type
- newspaper article (Newspaper page (nationalist daily))
- Language
- Indonesian (old spelling)
- Perspective
- Indonesian mainstream/other press
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- Indonesia
- Period
- 1950–1954
- 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), page image downloaded 2026-10-15/16 via the Claude desktop browser; MPN SIDAK id in the file name. Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
- Citation (APA)
- Merdeka. (1951, August 8). Merdeka [Daily newspaper], No. 1696, Tahun ke-VI, p. 2. Djakarta.
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Merdeka (1950-1957) - pages mentioning Gerwis and Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Merdeka (1951-08-08) - p. 02, Gerwis hit [MPN SIDAK 76738].jpg
- OCR / text
- Fair (0.756) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Merdeka (1950-1957) - pages mentioning Gerwis and Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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