Aidit receives the Chinese women's delegation (snippet)
Snippet-only Renmin Ribao item (11 Aug 1964, p. 8): Aidit receives the Chinese women's delegation attending the 10th Kowani congress, with the Chinese chargé d'affaires present. Source OCR is garbled; full text is GA-01936.
Aidit receives the Chinese women's delegation attending the Kowani congress
Xinhua note in Renmin Ribao (11 Aug 1964, p. 8): on 9 August PKI chairman Aidit received the Chinese women's delegation led by Huang Ganying, in Jakarta for the 10th Kowani (Indonesian Women's Congress). The Chinese chargé d'affaires attended. Shows PKI leadership hosting ACWF visitors alongside the Kowani congress; Ge
Neues Deutschland, 13 Dec 1964, p. 7: We speak a common language
Neues Deutschland, 13 December 1964, p. 7. ADN/ND report 'Wir sprechen eine gemeinsame Sprache' on the end of a GDR Volkskammer delegation's visit to Indonesia, with a boxed item: DFD deputy Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich was received by Mrs Subandrio, president of the Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani), who proposed exch
Neues Deutschland, 10 Jan 1965, p. 5: Light and shadow (Indonesia report by Lieselotte Thoms, part IV)
Neues Deutschland, 10 January 1965, p. 5. Part IV of Lieselotte Thoms's Indonesia travel report 'Licht und Schatten'. After sections on literacy, universities and inflation, 'Frauenprobleme' describes meetings with Mrs (Dr) Subandrio, head of the Indonesian Women's Congress, and notes the movement is organised by party
Nasakom for now without 'kom': communists frozen but not yet eliminated
Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (21 Oct 1965), H.L. Leffelaar from Jakarta: the freezing of the PKI is an army victory over Sukarno; Nasakom 'without kom'. A poster targets Mrs Subandrio, head of the women's federation (Kowani), for not yet suspending Gerwani. Hatta criticises communist land seizures; a minister recounts Unt
Nasakom for now without 'kom'; Subandrio increasingly cornered
Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (21 Oct 1965), H.L. Leffelaar from Jakarta: the freezing of the PKI is an army victory over Sukarno; Nasakom 'without kom'. A poster targets Mrs Subandrio, head of the women's federation (Kowani), for not yet suspending Gerwani. Hatta criticises communist land seizures; a minister recounts Unt
Tempo, 2 October 2021: Breaking up before the decisive congress (how Umi Sardjono led Gerwani)
Tempo feature (2 Oct 2021) on how Umi Sardjono led Gerwani: Marx House courses, the 1945 Barisan Buruh Wanita with S.K. Trimurti, Gerwis founded at Semarang (3-6 June 1950, Tris Metty chair), Umi chair from 1954 when it became Gerwani. Cites 650,000 members and 179 kindergartens at the 1957 Solo congress, WIDF links, s
Tempo, 2 October 2021: Gerwani, Sukarno and polygamy (Gerwani and the dilemma of brotherhood)
Tempo essay (2 Oct 2021) by I Gusti Agung Ayu Ratih on why Gerwani did not criticise Sukarno's polygamy. It recounts Kowani expelling Gerwani on 29 Oct 1965 and removing Hurustiati Subandrio in 1966, the erasure of Gerwani from women's movement history, Perwari rivalry, Gerwani members' reverence for Sukarno, and anti-