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GA-02804 1960 Maasje Siwi rel A licensed

Api Kartini (Maasje Siwi on the new women's magazine)

Api Kartini: the new women's magazine (Maasje Siwi, 1960)

Short interview note (1960) in WIDF's magazine: Maasje Siwi, director of the new monthly women's magazine Api Kartini, explains its aims. Published under the Jajasan Melati committee, which includes Gerwani members. Magazine launched June 1959; aims to develop women's knowledge, patriotism and international friendship;

GA-02805 1961 Maasje Siwi rel A licensed

The dream of an Indonesian peasant woman (Seminar Nasional Wanita Tani)

The dream of an Indonesian peasant woman: National Seminar on Peasant Women (1961)

1961 article by Maasje Siwi on Gerwani's first National Seminar on Peasant Women's Problems. Describes peasant hardships (debt, child marriage, easy divorce, exclusion from village office) and demands: land reform and women's land ownership, crop-sharing law, abolition of colonial ban on women village heads. Features d

GA-02853 1963 WIDF rel A licensed

The Need for Social Services in Indonesia (WIDF, 1963): Gerwani kindergartens

The Need for Social Services in Indonesia: Gerwani kindergartens (WIDF, 1963)

1963 WIDF bulletin article 'The Need for Social Services in Indonesia': the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) and others push kindergartens. It reports a first National Seminar on kindergartens in 1959, teacher courses in 1961-62, the aim of one kindergarten per street, over 700 kindergartens (first started in 1951

GA-02854 1963 WIDF rel A licensed

Indonesia: Report in preparation for International Women's Day and the World Congress of Women (WIDF, 1963)

Indonesia: preparations for International Women's Day and the World Congress of Women (WIDF, 1963)

1963 WIDF bulletin: Gerwani plans a broad campaign to prepare for the World Congress of Women (Moscow 1963) through the International Women's Day committee, chaired by Mrs Arudji Kartawinata and including Umi Sardjono (Gerwani president), Ratu Aminah Hidajat, Utami Suryadarma and others (18 organisations); also bazaar

GA-02855 1965 WIDF rel A licensed

Our Road: Reports, Reportages, Information (WIDF, 1965), including 'GERWANI for Peasant Women'

Our Road: reports from many countries (WIDF, 1965), incl. Gerwani for Peasant Women

WIDF magazine 1965 'Our Road' news page (mid-1965), with reports on North and South Korean women, West German women against Emergency Laws, and Argentina/India/US actions. A 'GERWANI for Peasant Women' item says Gerwani's International Women's Day statement backed peasants' demands for the Basic Agrarian Law and Crop S