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Jalan Berliku Federasi Perempuan (Historia, 2017)

The winding road of the women's federation (Historia, 2017)

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Historia article (2017) tracing the Indonesian women's federation from the 1928 congress to its capture by the New Order in 1966, framed by Ruth Indiah Rahayu's view that the movement 'died' and was confined to Dharma Wanita and PKK. Popular history.

Artikel Historia (2017) yang menelusuri federasi perempuan Indonesia dari kongres 1928 hingga dikuasai Orde Baru 1966, dibingkai pandangan Ruth Indiah Rahayu bahwa gerakan itu 'mati' dan dikurung dalam Dharma Wanita dan PKK. Sejarah populer.

People

Ruth Indiah RahayuNyonya SoekontoNyi Hadjar DewantoroSujatin Kartowijono

Organisations

Indonesian Women's CongressDharma WanitaFamily Welfare GuidanceInkrispena

Places

YogyakartaIndonesia

Topics

women's rights and emancipationcongresses and meetingsNew Orderhistoriography

Tags

feature article

Details

Date
2017
Creator
Janti
Document type
web article (popular history magazine article (online), with interview quotations)
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
Source role
secondary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Source archive
Historia.id · source link
Access
Historia (historia.id), https://www.historia.id/article/jalan-berliku-federasi-perempuan-drbzg, retrieved 2026-10-13; full text openly accessible at retrieval. Saved by Nath as a .txt web capture. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Janti, N. (2017). Jalan berliku federasi perempuan [The winding road of the women's federation]. Historia. https://www.historia.id/article/jalan-berliku-federasi-perempuan-drbzg [Author and year from Nath's file name; neither byline nor date is visible in the captured text; verify on the live page.]
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02 Secondary Sources/2.5 Journalism, Web Essays and Reference/Janti (2017) - Jalan Berliku Federasi Perempuan (Historia).txt
OCR / text
Good (0.955) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.5 Journalism, Web Essays and Reference
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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