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Sexual Metaphors in the Change from Soekarno's Old Order to Soeharto's New Order in Indonesia (Wieringa, RIMA, 1998)
Sexual Metaphors in the Change from Soekarno's Old Order to Soeharto's New Order (Wieringa, RIMA 1998)
Published RIMA version (1998) of Wieringa's 1996 paper, revised after Suharto's fall: the New Order legitimated itself through the army's slander campaign against Gerwani, part of an 'extended coup' of Oct 1965-Mar 1967, with a compact Gerwani history. Companion to the 1996 draft.
Versi terbitan RIMA (1998) makalah Wieringa 1996, direvisi setelah Suharto jatuh: Orde Baru melegitimasi diri lewat kampanye fitnah tentara terhadap Gerwani, bagian dari 'kudeta berkepanjangan' Okt 1965-Mar 1967, dengan sejarah ringkas Gerwani. Pendamping draf 1996.
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- Date
- 1998
- Creator
- Wieringa
- Document type
- journal article (peer-reviewed journal article)
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Australia
- Period
- 1980–1998
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- Informit via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
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- Downloaded from Informit (search.informit.org, DOI 10.3316/informit.T2026033000004091650417276 as printed in the stamp) via University of Calgary library licence; library-licensed, not open access; download stamp dated 14 October 2026 (AEST); annotated 2026-10-13 per corpus convention. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Wieringa, S. E. (1998). Sexual metaphors in the change from Soekarno's Old Order to Soeharto's New Order in Indonesia. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 32(2), 143–178. [volume, issue and year not printed on the PDF pages; page range 143–178 visible; verify 32(2) 1998 on Informit]
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Wieringa (1998) - Sexual Metaphors in the Change from Soekarno's Old Order to Soeharto's New Order in Indonesia.pdf
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- Good (0.934) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
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- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
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- condensed from full annotation
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