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Sexual Slander Revealed: The Story of Jamilah-Jemilah and The Act of Killing (Wieringa, 2015)
Sexual Slander Revealed: the story of Jamilah-Jemilah and The Act of Killing (Wieringa, 2015)
Wieringa (Indonesian Feminist Journal, Aug 2015): the 'confession' of 'Jamilah, Srikandi of Lubang Buaya' printed identically in four army papers on 5-7 Nov 1965, and the real Jemilah (arrested by mistake for Gerwani leader Atikah, tortured, lost her baby), from Juki Ardi's Aku bukan Jamilah.
Wieringa (Indonesian Feminist Journal, Agu 2015): 'pengakuan' 'Jamilah, Srikandi Lubang Buaya' dimuat identik di empat koran tentara 5-7 Nov 1965, dan Jemilah yang sebenarnya (ditangkap karena salah mengira pimpinan Gerwani Atikah, disiksa, kehilangan bayi), dari Aku bukan Jamilah karya Juki Ardi.
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- Date
- 2015
- Creator
- Wieringa
- Document type
- journal article (journal article (short essay in an Indonesian feminist journal), repository copy with UvA-DARE cover sheet)
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Indonesia
- Period
- 1999–present
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- UvA DARE / Pure · source link
- Access
- UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository, University of Amsterdam), final published version; original at jurnalperempuan.org (Indonesian Feminist Journal, ISSN 2338-9362, YJP Press); freely downloadable for personal use under UvA-DARE terms (not a CC licence); download date 14 Oct 2026 per cover; annotated 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Wieringa, S. E. (2015). Sexual slander revealed: The story of Jamilah/Jemilah and The Act of Killing. Indonesian Feminist Journal, 3(1), 14–22.
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Wieringa (2015) - Sexual Slander Revealed, The Story of Jamilah-Jemilah and The Act of Killing.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.953) · 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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