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Korban Perempuan yang Selamat Bicara Soal Pembunuhan Massal 1965 di Indonesia

Women Survivors Speak of the 1965 Mass Killings in Indonesia (Global Voices, 2015)

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Global Voices feature (30 Oct 2015; Indonesian repost 2016) on AJAR's project interviewing 26 women survivors, with photos and testimony of Vena Taka, Kadmiyati, Frangkina Boboy and Migelina Markus. Women survivors' testimony and demands for justice.

Fitur Global Voices (30 Okt 2015; dimuat ulang dalam bahasa Indonesia 2016) tentang proyek AJAR yang mewawancarai 26 perempuan penyintas, dengan foto dan kesaksian Vena Taka, Kadmiyati, Frangkina Boboy dan Migelina Markus. Kesaksian penyintas perempuan dan tuntutan keadilan.

People

Vena TakaKadmiyatiFrangkina BoboyMigelina A. Markus

Organisations

Asia Justice and RightsInternational People's Tribunal 1965Global Voices

Places

YogyakartaLasianaIndonesia

Topics

memory, testimony and justicekillings 1965–66arrests and detentionwomen's rights and emancipation

Tags

survivor agencyintervieworal history

Details

Date
2015
Creator
Global Voices
Publication
Document type
web article (online news feature with photo-testimony captions (Indonesian translation of a Global Voices article, reposted on the IPT 1965 website))
Language
Indonesian; English
Perspective
Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
Source role
primary
Country
International
Period
1999–present
Source archive
tribunal1965.org · source link
Access
IPT 1965 website (tribunal1965.org), Indonesian repost of 23 August 2016 of a Global Voices article of 30 October 2015: https://www.tribunal1965.org/korban-perempuan-yang-selamat-bicara-soal-pembunuhan-massal-1965-di-indonesia/. Open access; retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Global Voices. (2016, August 23). Korban perempuan yang selamat bicara soal pembunuhan massal 1965 di Indonesia [Women survivors speak about the 1965 mass killings in Indonesia] [Reposted from Global Voices, 30 October 2015; Indonesian version]. Tribunal 1965. https://www.tribunal1965.org/korban-perempuan-yang-selamat-bicara-soal-pembunuhan-massal-1965-di-indonesia/
File
01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/Global Voices (2015) - Korban Perempuan yang Selamat Bicara Soal Pembunuhan Massal 1965 di Indonesia (Tribunal 1965 repost).txt
OCR / text
Good (0.945) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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