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Penggambaran Gerwani sebagai Kumpulan Pembunuh dan Setan (Stanley, 1999)

Depicting Gerwani as a band of murderers and devils (Stanley, 1999)

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Short Indonesian essay by 'Stanley' (probably Stanley Adi Prasetyo) for a 1999 history seminar, quoting the canonical army account of Gerwani at Lubang Buaya and showing from the autopsy reports (Anderson, Dr Arief Budianto) that the genitals were intact and eye damage came from the fall into the well. Debunking the slander.

Esai singkat bahasa Indonesia oleh 'Stanley' (kemungkinan Stanley Adi Prasetyo) untuk seminar sejarah 1999, mengutip kisah resmi tentara tentang Gerwani di Lubang Buaya dan menunjukkan dari laporan autopsi (Anderson, dr. Arief Budianto) bahwa alat kelamin utuh dan kerusakan mata akibat jatuh ke sumur. Membongkar fitnah.

People

Stanley Adi PrasetyoBenedict AndersonArief BudiantoLiem Joe Thay

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)People's YouthIndonesian Historians' Society

Places

Lubang BuayaSerpong

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against GerwaniExhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderpropaganda and mediahistoriographymemory, testimony and justice

Tags

atrocity rumoursrevisionist reassessment

Details

Creator
Stanley
Document type
journal article (seminar paper reproduced as a web PDF (historiographical / media-analysis essay with footnotes))
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Source archive
archive.org · source link
Access
Web PDF from Edi Cahyono's Experience (http://www.geocities.com/edicahy, later relocated to geocities mirrors / edicahyono sites; GeoCities closed 2009); open access, copyright notice 2005; file in Nath's Gerwani corpus, retrieved/annotated 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Stanley. (n.d.). Penggambaran Gerwani sebagai kumpulan pembunuh dan setan (fitnah dan fakta penghancuran organisasi perempuan terkemuka) [The portrayal of Gerwani as a band of murderers and devils (slander and facts of the destruction of a leading women's organisation)] [Paper presented at the one-day seminar "Tragedi Nasional 1965", Masyarakat Sejarawan Indonesia, Serpong, 8 September 1999]. Edi Cahyono's Experience. http://www.geocities.com/edicahy [web reproduction, copyright notice 2005]
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Stanley (n.d.) - Penggambaran Gerwani sebagai Kumpulan Pembunuh dan Setan.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.934) · 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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