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Army Women Corps Education Centre

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2023
Entity authorityQ17997324 ↗
Source-derived summary

Army Women Corps Education Centre is an educational command responsible for training Indonesian women to become soldiers for Indonesian Army. The centre operates under the auspices of Indonesian Army Doctrine, Education and Training Development Command and led by a female colonel who serves as its commander. The centre was founded on 4 December 1961 and formally opened on 10 November 1961 by Gatot Subroto. The centre was located on Lembang, West Bandung Regency, West Java.

Commander

Kartini Hermanus (1997—2000)

Sri Parmini (2000).

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“Army Women Corps Education Centre” enters the record as military unit. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Army, Women and Corps can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1997, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Army, Women and Corps.
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“Army Women Corps Education Centre” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Army, Women and Corps provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Army Women Corps Education Centre” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.