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Politik Seksual: Fitnah terhadap Organisasi Perempuan Pasca Kemerdekaan (Muslim Pohan, 2018)

Sexual politics: slander against women's organisations after independence (Pohan, 2018)

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Muslim Pohan's 2018 short article on the sexual politics and slander against women's organisations in the shift to the New Order, relying on Wieringa; includes the army's takeover of the army-wives' organisation Persit and Kowani dropping 8 March. Secondary synthesis.

Artikel singkat Muslim Pohan 2018 tentang politik seksual dan fitnah terhadap organisasi perempuan pada peralihan ke Orde Baru, bertumpu pada Wieringa; termasuk pengambilalihan organisasi istri tentara Persit dan Kowani meninggalkan 8 Maret. Sintesis sekunder.

People

Muslim PohanSaskia WieringaAhmad YaniJohanna Sunarti Nasution

Organisations

Indonesian Women's CongressPersit Kartika Chandra KiranaIndonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Indonesian National Armed Forces

Places

Indonesia

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderNew Orderwomen's rights and emancipationhistoriographypropaganda and media

Tags

sexual slander

Details

Date
2018
Creator
Pohan
Document type
journal article (journal article (short review essay in an Islamic college journal; largely a summary of Wieringa))
Language
Indonesian; English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Source archive
Madaniyah OJS · source link
Access
Jurnal Madaniyah (STIT Pemalang), vol. 8 no. 1, January 2018, https://journal.stitpemalang.ac.id/index.php/madaniyah/index; open access (CC BY-SA 4.0, p. 161). Retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Pohan, M. (2018). Politik seksual: Fitnah terhadap organisasi perempuan pasca kemerdekaan di Indonesia [Sexual politics: Slander against women's organizations in post-independence Indonesia]. Jurnal Madaniyah, 8(1), 161–172.
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Pohan (2018) - Politik Seksual, Fitnah terhadap Organisasi Perempuan Pasca Kemerdekaan.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.938) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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