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Pukulan Telak bagi Gerakan Perempuan (Historia, 2018)
A heavy blow to the women's movement (Historia, 2018)
Historia article (2018) on the 1953 women's campaign against Government Regulation 19/1952 giving civil-service pensions to all widows of polygynous officials, including the 17 Dec 1953 mass meeting at Deca Park attended by Gerwani and others. Context on the anti-polygamy movement.
Artikel Historia (2018) tentang kampanye perempuan 1953 menentang PP 19/1952 yang memberi pensiun PNS kepada semua janda pejabat berpoligami, termasuk rapat raksasa 17 Des 1953 di Taman Deca yang dihadiri Gerwani dan lainnya. Konteks gerakan antipoligami.
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- Date
- 2018
- Creator
- Janti
- Document type
- web article (popular history web article (Historia.id))
- Language
- Indonesian
- Perspective
- Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Indonesia
- Period
- 1999–present
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- Historia.id · source link
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- Historia.id, https://www.historia.id/article/pukulan-telak-bagi-gerakan-perempuan-dwgr5; freely readable at capture; retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Janti, N. (2018). Pukulan telak bagi gerakan perempuan [A heavy blow for the women's movement]. Historia. https://www.historia.id/article/pukulan-telak-bagi-gerakan-perempuan-dwgr5
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.5 Journalism, Web Essays and Reference/Janti (2018) - Pukulan Telak bagi Gerakan Perempuan (Historia).txt
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- Good (0.964) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
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- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.5 Journalism, Web Essays and Reference
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- condensed from full annotation
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