GA-02193 1968-06-29 relevance A check rights
Suara Merdeka, 29 Juni 1968, hlm. 1: Gerakan PKI gaya baru di Purworejo tertangkap
Suara Merdeka, 29 June 1968, p. 1: 'New-style PKI' arrested in Purworejo; Darmini labelled Gerwani
Suara Merdeka front page, 29 June 1968: Purworejo correspondent reports the arrest of an alleged 'new-style PKI' underground and Darmini, 28, labelled a Gerwani member, with lurid detail on her and a housemate's pregnancies. Typical New Order sexualised portrayal of Gerwani women.
Halaman depan Suara Merdeka, 29 Juni 1968: koresponden Purworejo melaporkan penangkapan jaringan bawah tanah 'PKI gaya baru' dan Darmini (28), disebut anggota Gerwani, dengan rincian sensasional tentang kehamilannya dan teman serumahnya. Contoh penggambaran perempuan Gerwani yang diseksualkan pada masa Orde Baru.
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- Date
- 1968-06-29
- Creator
- Suara Merdeka
- Publication
- Suara Merdeka
- Document type
- newspaper article (Newspaper page (Semarang daily, front page))
- Language
- Indonesian (old spelling)
- Perspective
- Indonesian army/New Order voice
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- Indonesia
- Period
- 1967–1979
- Source archive
- Monumen Pers Nasional SIDAK · source link
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- Monumen Pers Nasional, SIDAK digital newspaper archive (free; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 per site; item id 74511 in the file name), downloaded 2026-10-15/16 via the Claude desktop browser. 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. (1968, June 29). Suara Merdeka, Tahun XIX, No. 111, p. 1. Semarang.
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Suara Merdeka (1965-1968) - pages mentioning Gerwani and Lubang Buaja (MPN SIDAK)/Suara Merdeka (1968-06-29) - p. 01, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 74511].jpg
- OCR / text
- Fair (0.822) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
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- 01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Suara Merdeka (1965-1968) - pages mentioning Gerwani and Lubang Buaja (MPN SIDAK)
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- condensed from full annotation
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