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Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 18 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 18 December 1965: KKO tour of Cilacap and fleeing villagers

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Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 18 Desember 1965. Last instalment of a KKO tour of Cilacap: fleeing 'PKI/Gestapu, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani' are driven by warning fire and a young woman cries 'I'm not Gerwani, I'm a Marhaen woman', told as a 'touching joke'.

Buletin Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersenjata, 18 Desember 1965. Bagian akhir tur KKO di Cilacap: 'PKI/Gestapu, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat dan Gerwani' yang lari digiring tembakan peringatan dan seorang perempuan muda berseru 'Pak, saya bukan Gerwani, saya wanita Marhaen', dikisahkan sebagai 'lelucon mengharukan'.

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Marine Corps (KKO)Indonesian Peasants' FrontPeople's Youth

Places

CilacapMajenang

Events

Mass killings of 1965–66

Topics

killings 1965–66propaganda and mediaarrests and detention

Details

Date
1965-12-18
Creator
Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata
Publication
Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata
Document type
newspaper issue (Newspaper issue (army daily news bulletin, stencilled))
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_18_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 18). Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata [Armed Forces Information Centre news bulletin], Edisi Pagi, No. 176/Th. I/1965. 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 (1965-12-18) - issue, Gerwani p. 35 [Khastara 420441].pdf
OCR / text
Poor (0.613) · 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)
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