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Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 15 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 15 December 1965: arrest roundup and four 'shot dead for fleeing'

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Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 15 Desember 1965. Arrest round-up noting 'a Gerwani' among 61 arrested by Kodam Diponegoro and among 10 by Kodam Brawijaya, with four 'shot dead for fleeing'.

Buletin Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersenjata, 15 Desember 1965. Rangkuman penangkapan yang mencatat 'seorang Gerwani' di antara 61 yang ditangkap Kodam Diponegoro dan 10 oleh Kodam Brawijaya, dengan empat 'ditembak mati saat melarikan diri'.

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Diponegoro Military Command (Central Java)Brawijaya Military Command (East Java)

Places

Central JavaEast Java

Events

Mass killings of 1965–66

Topics

arrests and detentionkillings 1965–66propaganda and media

Tags

army in politics

Details

Date
1965-12-15
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_15_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 15). Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata (Information Centre) (Edisi Pagi, No. 173/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 (1965-12-15) - issue, Gerwani p. 9 [Khastara 420441].pdf
OCR / text
Poor (0.584) · 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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