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Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 3 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 3 December 1965: Puspenad statement on PKI as sole executor of G30S

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Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 3 Desember 1965. Puspenad statement declaring the PKI sole executor of the 30 September Movement; Gerwani cited among armed 'auxiliary forces' trained at Lubang Buaya and as forces Njono organised; self-dissolution of a Kebayoran Gerwani ranting.

Buletin Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersenjata, 3 Desember 1965. Pernyataan Puspenad menyatakan PKI pelaksana tunggal G30S; Gerwani disebut di antara 'tenaga bantuan' bersenjata yang dilatih di Lubang Buaya dan kekuatan yang diorganisir Njono; pembubaran diri ranting Gerwani Kebayoran.

People

NjonoWiranto (Ny.)

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of IndonesiaPeople's YouthIndonesian Peasants' FrontArmy Information Centre

Places

Lubang BuayaKebayoran BaruJakarta

Events

30 September MovementArmy press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderarrests and detentionpropaganda and media

Tags

organisational statementarmy in politicsmilitia and volunteersmilitary trainingscapegoating

Details

Date
1965-12-03
Creator
Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata
Publication
Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata
Document type
newspaper issue (Newspaper issue (army daily news bulletin, mimeographed, internal circulation))
Language
Indonesian (old spelling)
Perspective
Indonesian army/New Order voice
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1965–1966
Source archive
Perpusnas Khastara | (file Pusat_Pemberitaan_Angkatan_Bersendjata_1965_12_03_001.pdf) · source link
Access
Perpusnas Khastara (Perpustakaan Nasional RI digital collection), free PDF, catalogue ID 420441 (in file name); downloaded 2026-10-15/16 via the Claude desktop browser. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata [Armed Forces Information Centre]. (1965, December 3). Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata (Information Centre) (Edisi Pagi, No. 163/Th. I/1965) [Mimeographed news bulletin]. Djakarta. Perpusnas Khastara, ID 420441.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata (1965) - army news bulletins mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)/Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata (1965-12-03) - issue, Gerwani p. 5, 17 [Khastara 420441].pdf
OCR / text
Poor (0.55) · proof-reading: key passages (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata (1965) - army news bulletins mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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