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Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 6 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 6 December 1965: speech linking godless knowledge to Lubang Buaya

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Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 6 Desember 1965. Speech at the Akademi Bahasa Asing Indonesia warning that godless knowledge led PR, CGMI and Gerwani/PKI to 'strip naked and sleep together at Lubang Buaya' because it held that 'women and men are equal'.

Buletin Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersenjata, 6 Desember 1965. Pidato di Akademi Bahasa Asing Indonesia yang memperingatkan bahwa ilmu tanpa agama membuat PR, CGMI, dan Gerwani/PKI 'telanjang bulat tidur bersama di Lubang Buaya' karena menganggap 'wanita dan pria itu sama'.

People

A.B.J. Tengker

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)People's YouthUnified Movement of Indonesian StudentsAMI

Places

Lubang BuayaJakarta

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slandereducation and literacypropaganda and mediawomen's rights and emancipation

Tags

speech textsexual slanderislam and religion

Details

Date
1965-12-06
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_06_001.pdf) · source link
Access
Perpusnas Khastara (Perpustakaan Nasional RI digital collection), free PDF, catalogue ID 420441 (series record for the 1965 bulletins); scanned from the Perpustakaan Museum Pusat Dept. P.D.&K. copy; 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 6). Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata (Information Centre) (Edisi Pagi, No. 165/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 (1965-12-06) - issue, Gerwani p. 25 [Khastara 420441].pdf
OCR / text
Poor (0.71) · 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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