GA-03002 2018 relevance B public
Perempuan Ditekan, Perempuan Melawan (Historia, 2018)
Women suppressed, women resisting (Historia, 2018)
Historia feature (2018) on how the New Order subordinated the women's movement after 1965, branding politically minded women 'like Gerwani' and portraying Gerwani as beautiful but cruel, and how independent organising revived from the 1980s. Draws on Suryakusuma and Murniati.
Fitur Historia (2018) tentang bagaimana Orde Baru menundukkan gerakan perempuan setelah 1965, mencap perempuan berpikiran politik 'seperti Gerwani' dan menggambarkan Gerwani cantik tetapi kejam, serta bangkitnya pengorganisasian mandiri sejak 1980-an. Mengacu pada Suryakusuma dan Murniati.
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- Date
- 2018
- Creator
- Janti
- Document type
- web article (popular history web article (Historia.id), with telephone interview)
- Language
- Indonesian
- Perspective
- Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Indonesia
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Historia.id · source link
- Access
- Historia.id, https://www.historia.id/article/perempuan-ditekan-perempuan-melawan-dbe1q; freely readable at capture (no paywall encountered); retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Janti, N. (2018). Perempuan ditekan, perempuan melawan [Women repressed, women resist]. Historia. https://www.historia.id/article/perempuan-ditekan-perempuan-melawan-dbe1q
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.5 Journalism, Web Essays and Reference/Janti (2018) - Perempuan Ditekan, Perempuan Melawan (Historia).txt
- OCR / text
- Good (0.948) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
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- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.5 Journalism, Web Essays and Reference
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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