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Kisah Pelarian Tiga Gerwani dari Penjara Bukit Duri (Merdeka.com, 2012)

The Flight of Three Gerwani Women from Bukit Duri Prison (Merdeka.com, 2012)

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Merdeka.com feature (2012; YPKP repost 2017) visiting the demolished Bukit Duri women's prison: neighbours recall a 1975 escape by three alleged Gerwani women, and journalist Sri Sulistyawati describes eleven years held there without trial. Memory of a women's detention site.

Fitur Merdeka.com (2012; dimuat ulang YPKP 2017) mengunjungi bekas penjara perempuan Bukit Duri yang dibongkar: warga mengenang pelarian tiga perempuan yang disebut Gerwani pada 1975, dan jurnalis Sri Sulistyawati menceritakan sebelas tahun ditahan tanpa pengadilan. Ingatan atas situs penahanan perempuan.

People

Sri SulistyawatiJayadiIndraRamadhian Fadillah

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Foundation for Research on the Victims of the 1965–66 KillingsWarta Buana

Places

Bukit Duri PrisonSouth JakartaCiliwung

Topics

arrests and detentionPlantungan and women prisonersmemory, testimony and justicemuseums and monuments

Tags

prisonstrauma and silence

Details

Date
2017
Creator
YPKP 1965
Document type
web article (web news article (Merdeka.com feature, 2012) reposted by a survivors' organization (YPKP 1965 'Kliping'))
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Source archive
ypkp1965.org · source link
Access
YPKP 1965 website, post of 24 September 2017 (categories Berita / Kisah Tapol / Kliping): https://ypkp1965.org/blog/2017/09/24/kisah-pelarian-tiga-gerwani-dari-penjara-bukit-duri/ . Original: Merdeka.com, 24 September 2012 (URL not given on the repost; locate on merdeka.com). Open access. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Fadillah, R. (2017, September 24). Kisah pelarian tiga Gerwani dari penjara Bukit Duri [The escape of three Gerwani women from Bukit Duri prison] [Reposted news article; originally published in Merdeka.com, September 24, 2012]. YPKP 1965. https://ypkp1965.org/blog/2017/09/24/kisah-pelarian-tiga-gerwani-dari-penjara-bukit-duri/
File
01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/YPKP 1965 (2017) - Kisah Pelarian Tiga Gerwani dari Penjara Bukit Duri.txt
OCR / text
Good (0.944) · 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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