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Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 4 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 4 December 1965: 'How the PKI poisons children's minds'

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Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 4 Desember 1965. Item 'Cara PKI meracuni jiwa anak-anak' claims in PKI kindergartens run by 'Gerwani' women children were taught God does not exist because He could not give pencils; demonisation through religion and education.

Buletin Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersenjata, 4 Desember 1965. Butir 'Cara PKI meracuni jiwa anak-anak' menyatakan di TK PKI yang gurunya 'Gerwani' anak-anak diajari Tuhan tidak ada karena tak bisa memberi pensil; demonisasi lewat agama dan pendidikan.

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of Indonesia

Places

Jakarta

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

kindergartens (TK Melati)education and literacypropaganda and media1965 coup and aftermath

Tags

childcareislam and religionschools and campusessexual slander

Details

Date
1965-12-04
Creator
Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata
Publication
Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata
Document type
newspaper issue (Newspaper issue (army daily news bulletin; stencilled typescript, sectioned Umum / Gelora Konfrontasi / Luar Negeri / Ekonomi / Olah Raga))
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_04_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. (1965, December 4). Pusat Pemberitaan (Information Centre) Angkatan Bersendjata [Armed forces news bulletin], No. 164/Th.I/1965 (morning edition) [Stencilled bulletin]. Dinas Penerangan Staf Angkatan Bersenjata. Perpustakaan Nasional RI, 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 (1965-12-04) - issue, Gerwani p. 21 [Khastara 420441].pdf
OCR / text
Poor (0.723) · 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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