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GA-02656 1992 relevance B public

Kunjungan Presiden Soeharto ke Museum Pengkhianatan PKI, 1992

President Suharto's Visit to the Museum of PKI Treachery, 1992

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Three snapshots of President Suharto's visit to the Museum Pengkhianatan PKI at Lubang Buaya, probably at its 1 Oct 1992 inauguration. Shows him before dioramas made in Edhi Sunarso's workshop.

Tiga foto kunjungan Presiden Suharto ke Museum Pengkhianatan PKI di Lubang Buaya, kemungkinan saat peresmian 1 Okt 1992. Memperlihatkan ia di depan diorama buatan bengkel Edhi Sunarso.

People

SuhartoEdhi Sunarso

Organisations

Indonesian National Armed ForcesPancasila Sakti Monument / Museum of PKI Treason

Places

Lubang BuayaEast Jakarta

Topics

museums and monumentsLubang Buaya and sexual slanderNew Orderpropaganda and media

Tags

photo report

Details

Date
1992
Creator
Edhi Sunarso archive
Document type
archival document (visual source: 3 colour snapshot photographs of an official visit (sculptor's archive))
Language
n.a.
Perspective
Indonesian army/New Order voice
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1980–1998
Source archive
archive.org · source link
Access
Digitised photographs from the archive of the sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016; studio and family archive, Yogyakarta). The item codes ('MUS EKA LG', 'EKI') are archive inventory numbers; the platform through which the scans were obtained (family archive or a digitisation project such as IVAA, Indonesian Visual Art Archive) is not recorded in the file [verify]. The PDF was assembled on macOS (Quartz PDFContext) on 12 April 2026, i.e. compiled locally from image files. Access status (open access vs. permission of the archive) to be confirmed before reproduction; retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Edhi Sunarso. (1992). [President Soeharto's visit to the Museum Pengkhianatan PKI (Komunis), Lubang Buaya, Jakarta] [Photographs; 3 colour prints with camera date imprint, item EKI 90 92 00017]. Edhi Sunarso Archive, Yogyakarta.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.7 New Order Trials, Propaganda and Museum Materials/Edhi Sunarso archive (1992) - EKI 90 92 00017, President Soeharto's visit to the Museum Pengkhianatan PKI.pdf
OCR / text
n/a (little or no text) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.7 New Order Trials, Propaganda and Museum Materials
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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