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Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 10 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 10 December 1965: Chaerul Saleh condemns Lubang Buaya terror, Perwa...

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Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 10 Desember 1965. Arrest round-up with 'a Gerwani'; Chaerul Saleh condemns the 'terror of Lubang Buaya in which Gerwani took an important part' and announces expulsion of Perwari members also in Gerwani.

Buletin Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersenjata, 10 Desember 1965. Rangkuman penangkapan dengan 'seorang Gerwani'; Chaerul Saleh mengecam 'teror Lubang Buaya yang di dalamnya Gerwani berperan penting' dan mengumumkan pengeluaran anggota Perwari yang juga anggota Gerwani.

People

Chaerul Saleh

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Women's Union of the Republic of IndonesiaSriwijaya Military Command (South Sumatra)

Places

Lubang BuayaJakarta

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against GerwaniKowani expels Gerwani

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderarrests and detentionwomen's rights and emancipationpropaganda and media

Tags

new order narrative

Details

Date
1965-12-10
Creator
Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata
Publication
Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata
Document type
newspaper issue (Newspaper issue (army news bulletin, stencilled typescript; morning edition '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_10_001.pdf) · source link
Access
Perpusnas Khastara (Perpustakaan Nasional RI digital collection), catalogue id 420441, free PDF; 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 10). Intisari berita, edisi pagi [News digest, morning edition] (No. 169/Th. I/1965). Pusat Pemberitaan (Information Centre) Angkatan Bersendjata, Djakarta.
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 (1965-12-10) - issue, Gerwani p. 13, 15 [Khastara 420441].pdf
OCR / text
Poor (0.618) · 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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