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Kebenaran tentang Gerwani: Aspek Gender Rezim Suharto (Seri Kartini 03/2002)

Truth about Gerwani: The Gender Aspect of the Suharto Regime (Seri Kartini 03/2002)

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2002 Seri Kartini booklet bundling W.F. Wertheim's review of Saskia Wieringa's Gerwani dissertation (Gerwani's puritan sexual politics, army fabrication of Lubang Buaya), a DPP Gerwani statement of 4 June 1962, Sulami's preface and poem, and a memoir of 1945. Survivors' reissue of key Gerwani texts.

Buklet Seri Kartini 2002 yang menghimpun ulasan W.F. Wertheim atas disertasi Saskia Wieringa tentang Gerwani (politik seksual puritan Gerwani, rekayasa tentara atas Lubang Buaya), pernyataan DPP Gerwani 4 Juni 1962, kata pengantar dan puisi Sulami, serta memoar 1945. Penerbitan ulang teks Gerwani oleh penyintas.

People

W.F. WertheimSaskia WieringaSulamiSuharti SuwartoSukarnoHartini SukarnoNoer HM

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Arena student press

Places

JakartaAmsterdam

Topics

Gerwani organisationLubang Buaya and sexual slanderhistoriographymarriage law and polygamymemory, testimony and justice

Tags

reprintrevieworganisational statement

Details

Date
2002
Creator
Wertheim, Sulami and Suharti
Document type
memoir/testimony (compiled booklet (review essay, reprinted Gerwani anniversary document, activist preface and poem, revolutionary memoir))
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Gerwani/PKI-aligned voice
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Access
Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Wertheim, W. F., Sulami, & Suharti, S. (2002). Kebenaran tentang Gerwani: Aspek gender rezim Suharto & Pekik merdeka di Gunung Tidar [The truth about Gerwani: The gender aspect of the Suharto regime & The cry of freedom on Mount Tidar] (N. HM, Compiler; Seri Kartini No. 03/2002). Cipta Lestari.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/Wertheim, Sulami and Suharti (2002) - Kebenaran tentang Gerwani, Aspek Gender Rezim Suharto.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.92) · 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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