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Suara Merdeka, 28 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 28 October 1965, p. 1: North Sulawesi freezing of PKI and Gerwani

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Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 28 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Gerwani appears twice: the North Sulawesi Pepelrada froze the PKI and onderbouw including 'Gerwani (Gerakan Wanita Indonesia)', and Perti purges PKI sympathisers.

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 28 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Gerwani muncul dua kali: Pepelrada Sulawesi Utara membekukan PKI dan onderbouw termasuk 'Gerwani (Gerakan Wanita Indonesia)', dan Perti membersihkan simpatisan PKI.

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Islamic Education MovementCommunist Party of IndonesiaPeople's YouthKodam XIII

Places

North Sulawesi

Events

Regional bans of the PKI and its mass organisations

Topics

arrests and detention1965 coup and aftermathpropaganda and media

Details

Date
1965-10-28
Creator
Suara Merdeka
Publication
Suara Merdeka
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper page image (front page of a daily, JPG scan))
Language
Indonesian (old spelling)
Perspective
Indonesian mainstream/other press
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1965–1966
Access
Downloaded 2026-10-15 via Nath's Chrome (see 'Download Log 2026-10-15.csv'); page image from the Monumen Pers Nasional SIDAK digital newspaper archive (https://mpn.komdigi.go.id/arsip/), open online access without login; site licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (as recorded in the SIDAK search-results file). Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Suara Merdeka. (1965, October 28). [Front page; Tahun XVI, No. 203; includes "PKI Sulawesi Utara dibekukan" and "PERTI adakan pembersihan kedalam"]. Suara Merdeka (Semarang), p. 1. Monumen Pers Nasional, SIDAK digital collection (item 74462).
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01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Suara Merdeka (1965-1968) - pages mentioning Gerwani and Lubang Buaja (MPN SIDAK)/Suara Merdeka (1965-10-28) - p. 01, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 74462].jpg
OCR / text
Fair (0.834) · proof-reading: key passages (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Suara Merdeka (1965-1968) - pages mentioning Gerwani and Lubang Buaja (MPN SIDAK)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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