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Fears of a New Surge of Red Terror in Indonesia (Evening Post, 11 October 1965)

Fears of a New Surge of Red Terror in Indonesia (Evening Post, 11 October 1965), opening clipping (duplicate)

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Opening clipping of the Evening Post article of 11 Oct 1965: mass arrests of Communists continued in Jakarta, with fears of a retaliatory terror campaign; unofficial estimates of 1,500 detained in a week and 2,000 captured in Java. Gerwani is not mentioned in this fragment.

Kliping awal artikel Evening Post 11 Okt 1965: penangkapan massal komunis berlanjut di Jakarta, disertai kekhawatiran teror balasan; perkiraan tidak resmi 1.500 ditahan seminggu dan 2.000 ditangkap di Jawa. Gerwani tidak disebut dalam fragmen ini.

People

D.N. AiditSukarno

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of IndonesiaIndonesian National PartyIndonesian ArmyNational FrontAssociated PressReuters

Places

JakartaJavaSurabayaEast JavaIndonesia

Topics

1965 coup and aftermathGerwani organisationarrests and detentionpropaganda and mediaPKI

Tags

anti-communismattacks on premiseswire report

Details

Date
1965-10-11
Creator
Evening Post
Publication
Evening Post
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page)
Language
English
Perspective
Western mainstream press
Source role
primary
Country
New Zealand
Period
1965–1966
Source archive
Papers Past (NZ) · source link
Access
open access (Papers Past, National Library of NZ) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/New Zealand press (1959-1966) - articles on Gerwani (Papers Past)/Evening Post (1965-10-11) - Fears of a new surge of Red terror in Indonesia (Gerwani office ransacked), area 3 [PapersPast EP19651011.2.102].gif
OCR / text
Good (0.93) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › New Zealand press (1959-1966) - articles on Gerwani (Papers Past)
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