US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1962-63): Aidit's speech at the Gerwani Training Center, October 1962
US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1962-63) extract on D.N. Aidit's speech at the Gerwani Training Center on 23 and 27 Oct 1962, in the debate over 'nationalising' Chinese-sounding names. Aidit calls the demand racialism and says reactionaries fan anti-Chinese feeling. Shows the PKI chair addressing a Gerwani cadre sc
JPRS Consolidated Translation Survey (1963): list of Harian Rakjat translations including Umi Sardjono's speech at the M
Short extract of a JPRS Consolidated Translation Survey (1963) listing translations of Harian Rakjat items, including JPRS 20546 on the 13th anniversary of the Indonesian women's movement (S. Djin; 'Thirteen Years of the Communist Womens Movement') and JPRS 20719, Umi Sardjono's speech as head of the Indonesian delegat
US State Department INR Report no. 4489, January 1963: World strength of the communist party organizations
US State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research report no. 4489 (January 1963), an annual tabulation of Communist party strength worldwide for 1962, with country-by-country entries on membership, parliamentary status and front organisations. The Indonesia entry (about p. 98) gives the PKI more than 2,000,000 me
JPRS 1963: Parjani Pradono criticises the WIDF programme (Moscow World Congress of Women)
Page from a US JPRS volume (Translations on the People's Republic of China, Oct-Nov 1963) summarising Chinese press reports on the June 1963 WIDF World Congress of Women in Moscow. Indonesian women's leader Parjani Pradono is quoted calling the WIDF programme 'devoid of revolutionary essence' and describing the Indones
RAND paper P-2690 by Guy J. Pauker (Jan 1963, for Asian Survey), 'Indonesia: Towards Development or Expansionism?'. Surveys the West New Guinea settlement, the lifting of the state of emergency, PKI strength (Aidit versus Lukman factions), inflation, Soviet arms debt and the Brunei revolt. Mentions Gerwani once, as a P
FBIS, 22 May 1963: Envoy expresses concern over Java riots
FBIS-monitored Xinhua item (22 May 1963): Chinese ambassador Yao Chung-ming called on Deputy Foreign Minister Suwito over anti-Chinese disturbances in Indonesia, especially West Java, and welcomed Sukarno's 19 May speech to a meeting of 'Indonesian women' condemning counterrevolutionary disturbances. Suwito pledged ste
FBIS, 4 June 1963: Indonesian women condemn Java riots (Gerwani letter)
FBIS-monitored Xinhua item (4 Jun 1963): the National Women's Federation of China received a letter from the Central Council of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) condemning the May 1963 anti-Chinese 'racist counterrevolutionary' riots, blaming ex-Masjumi, PSI and other elements with foreign subversive agents ai
FBIS Daily Report, 15 June 1963: Indonesian women leaders (Mrs Mudikdio, vice chairman of Gerwani)
FBIS Daily Report page (HathiTrust, Chicom International Affairs, dated 19 June 1963 on the page) with several Peking items. Relevant entry: Mrs Mudikdio (Mudigdio), vice chairman of the Gerwani central council, and Mrs Darmini, secretariat member, ended their China visit and flew home 17 June, seen off by Li Te-chuan
FBIS, 17 June 1963: Indonesian women leaders (Mudigdio and Darmini leave China)
One-item FBIS note (17 Jun 1963, Xinhua): Mrs Mudikdio (Mudigdio), vice chairman of the central council of Gerwani, and Mrs Darmini of its secretariat ended their China visit and left Peking for Indonesia on 17 June, seen off by Li Te-chuan, vice president of the Chinese National Women's Federation. Same item as in the
FBIS, 8 July 1963: Delegates to women's congress in Peking (after Moscow)
FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (8 Jul 1963): an Indonesian women's delegation, a Nepalese delegate and the Chinese delegation arrived in Peking after the World Congress of Women in Moscow, welcomed by 300 people. Indonesian members include Mme Parjani Pradono (head, Gerwani central committee), Mme Satryo and Mme Muningga
CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance, 15 July 1963: WIDF Moscow World Congress of Women
CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance, 15 July 1963, on the Sino-Soviet clash at the WIDF Moscow World Congress of Women (June 1963). It quotes the Indonesian press of 9 July, per NCNA, carrying a statement by Maasje Siwi, general secretary of GERWANI, condemning the undemocratic handling of the congress and saying Gerwani
FBIS, 18 July 1963: Delegation to women's congress welcomed (Peking rally)
FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (18 Jul 1963): a 10,000-strong Peking rally welcomed the Chinese delegation back from the Moscow World Congress of Women. Yang Yun-yu's report attacked Soviet delegation leader Popova and WIDF leaders for 'sectarianism, splittism and big-power chauvinism', calling the congress 'undemocratic
FBIS, 23 July 1963: Kim Ok-sun reports on Moscow WIDF parley
FBIS-monitored KCNA item (23 Jul 1963): Kim Ok-sun, first vice chair of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, reported to a Pyongyang meeting on the Moscow World Women's Congress, calling it a 'great blot' that ignored the anti-imperialist struggle and allowed an anti-Chinese racket. She lists the women's delegations of
FBIS-monitored KCNA report (24 Jul 1963): Pyongyang meeting welcoming the Indonesian women's delegation led by Mudikdio (Mudigdio), vice chairman of the Gerwani committee and MP. Kim Ok-sun praised the PKI as vanguard of anti-imperialist struggle; Mudigdio said emancipation without revolutionary struggle against coloni
FBIS item (5 Aug 1963, Xinhua): three Indonesian women guests reached Peking on 4 August after visiting North Korea: Mudikdio (Mudigdio), vice chairman of the Gerwani Central Committee, MP and member of the Indonesian delegation to the Moscow World Congress of Women, with Lie Tjwan Sien and Muninggar. Welcomed by Hu Na
Short Xinhua item (10 Aug 1963, via FBIS): Chairman Mao received the Indonesian women's delegation led by Mudikdio (Mudigdio, Gerwani vice chairman) on the afternoon of 10 August in Peking, with a cordial and friendly talk; Yang Yun-yu and Kuo Chien of the National Women's Federation were present (OCR garbled). Shows t
FBIS-monitored VNA report (16 Sep 1963): the Indonesian parliamentary delegation headed by Deputy Speaker M.H. Lukman (PKI) arrived in Hanoi to a welcome of nearly 3,000 people; DRV leaders spoke of solidarity; Vietnamese and Indonesian women presented bouquets. Gerwani not named; context for PKI-linked parliamentary d
US National Intelligence Estimate 55-64, 22 July 1964: Prospects for Indonesia
US National Intelligence Estimate 55-64, 22 July 1964, on Indonesia's prospects: Sukarno dominant, PKI strengthened, Konfrontasi driving a left drift. Mentions Gerwani only among PKI fronts (p. 5); context for pre-1965 US views.
CIA special report, 23 October 1964: Sukarno and the Communists
CIA Special Report, 23 October 1964, on the Sukarno-PKI relationship; lists Gerwani among PKI fronts with almost two million claimed members. Pre-coup US context.
Continuing integration of the women's movement with Indonesian peasant women: report of Gerwani's Third Plenum (Harian R
JPRS translation of Harian Rakjat, 23 Jan 1964, on the Third Plenary Session of Gerwani's Central Council (Bandung, 18-22 Jan 1964). Chair Umi Sardjono reports on crushing 'Malaysia', price rises, the Cabinet of Mutual Assistance and land reform; stresses integration with peasant women, cooperation with the BTI, West I
JPRS (1964): New candidate members of the PKI Central Committee, including Setiati Surasto
Short JPRS extract (1964) from Harian Rakjat translations listing changes to the PKI Central Committee: new candidate members include Mrs Setiati Surasto, Mrs Sundari (Dundari Ar.) and Mrs Umi Sardjono, plus replacements on the Control and Verification Commissions (Mrs Mudjiatun) and new Secretariat members (Njono, Rus
Plans and tasks of the Indonesian women's movement, by Suwati Trimo (Harian Rakjat, 4 January 1964; JPRS)
JPRS translation of a Harian Rakjat piece (4 Jan 1964) by Suwati Trimo (Sutrimo) on Gerwani's plans after the 1961 Fourth Congress, plus the end of another National Front speech and an Aidit message to prison personnel. Reports membership growth (Surabaya 14,434 to 16,231; Jakarta trained 45 cadres), peasant and anti-'
Foreign Office/CRO Papers on the PKI and Malaysia Confrontation (DO 169/516, 1964)
British Commonwealth Relations Office/Foreign Office file (DO 169/516, 1964) on Indonesia and Malaysia. It combines handwritten minutes, an IRD intelligence paper on the PKI (Aidit's December 1963 plenum, Sino-Soviet line, the prospect of PKI power within five years), a brief 'Communists smoothing path to power in Indo
JPRS 1964: Committee of the SOBSI Fourth National Congress (Setiati Surasto, Sri Ambar)
JPRS translation page (Translations on South and East Asia, no. 66-80, 1964-65, seq 266) listing the committee of SOBSI's Fourth National Congress. The Central Bureau has Moch. Munir as chairman and Mrs Setiati Surasto among the deputy chairmen; Sri Ambar is among the secretaries. Both are women named in the catalogue
JPRS 1964: PKI national conference on literature and art (Lekra presidium incl. S. Rukiah, Mia Bustam)
JPRS translation page (Translations on South and East Asia, 1964, seq 520) on a PKI national conference on revolutionary literature and art. Secretary Sudisman opens it; a 17-person presidium includes D.N. Aidit, Njoto, S. Rukiah and Mia Bustam from Central Java; Aidit reports on serving workers, peasants and soldiers
JPRS 1964: Speech by Suwardiningsih on the Political Report to the CC PKI Second Plenary (Harian Rakjat, 14 Jan 1964)
JPRS translation (Translations on South and East Asia, 1964) of Suwardiningsih's speech in Harian Rakjat, 14 Jan 1964, p. 3, on the Political Report to the CC PKI's Second Plenary Session. She addresses workers' and peasants' hardship under the 26 May Regulations, work among peasants and fishermen, and revisionism. Fol
FBIS-monitored Jakarta radio excerpts (9 Mar 1964) of Sukarno's speech to an International Women's Day gathering at the State Palace. He calls Malaysia a neocolonialist project to be 'crushed', cites Khrushchev, thanks Indonesian women for agreeing, and commands them to mobilise via radio and television, convince women
FBIS-monitored Xinhua excerpt (10 Mar 1964) on the four resolutions adopted at the International Women's Day rally in Jakarta addressed by Sukarno: crush 'Malaysia' and aid North Kalimantan; help implement agrarian and crop-sharing laws against food difficulties; resist imperialist cultural infiltration; condemn US agg
Two Divisions of DPRK Volunteers to Arrive (FBIS, 19 Apr 1964)
FBIS-monitored Jakarta radio report (19 Apr 1964) of a rally welcoming a North Korean Supreme People's Assembly delegation, with speeches by Sudibjo (National Front), Arudji Kartawinata and delegation chair Choe Won-taek, who said two divisions of Korean volunteers would join the anti-Malaysia campaign. The delegation'
FBIS-monitored KCNA report (21 Apr 1964) on the Jakarta welcome rally for the Korean Supreme People's Assembly delegation: speeches by Sudibjo, Arudji Kartawinata and Choe Won-taek on anti-imperialist solidarity, the Malaysia confrontation and new ambassador-level ties. On p.3 Mudiktio (Mudigdio), MP and deputy chair o