GA-01699 1965-12-07 relevance A public
Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 7 Desember 1965
Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 7 December 1965: sweeps in Central Java and condemnation of Gerwani
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 7 Desember 1965. Three Gerwani members seized among 124 people in sweeps in Pemalang, Cilacap, Blora and Boyolali; a statement condemns Gerwani for 'tearing apart the personality of Indonesian women'.
Buletin Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersenjata, 7 Desember 1965. Tiga anggota Gerwani ditangkap di antara 124 orang dalam penyisiran di Pemalang, Cilacap, Blora, dan Boyolali; sebuah pernyataan mengecam Gerwani 'merobek kepribadian wanita Indonesia'.
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- Date
- 1965-12-07
- Creator
- Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata
- Publication
- Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata
- Document type
- newspaper issue (Newspaper issue (army news bulletin, mimeographed daily 'Intisari Berita'))
- 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_07_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 7). Intisari berita [News digest], Edisi pagi, No. 166/Th. I/65 [Mimeographed army news bulletin]. Djakarta: Ditpen S.A.B.
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- 01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata (1965) - army news bulletins mentioning Gerwani (Perpusnas Khastara)/Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata (1965-12-07) - issue, Gerwani p. 15 [Khastara 420441].pdf
- OCR / text
- Poor (0.615) · 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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