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GA-02829 1952 WIDF rel B licensed

The Women of Indonesia (WIDF Bulletin, 1952)

WIDF Bulletin no. 5/1952 'The Women of Indonesia': a WIDF-sympathetic account of postwar Indonesia in 1952, covering militarised budgets, unemployment, hunger, maternal and infant mortality, the Round Table legacy and US agreements. It says women formed committees for 8 March and Children's Day and that local GERWIS br

GA-02840 1956 WIDF rel A licensed

Indonesia: Experiences regarding Co-operation Work (WIDF, 1956)

1956 WIDF bulletin item on Indonesia: the Gerwani Central Council's report on cooperation with other women's organisations, overcoming mistrust, membership rising from 281,000 to 565,147, local marriage-rights actions, rural work with peasant groups, the All-Indonesia Women's Congress adopting Gerwani's proposed Charte

GA-02811 1959 Sulami rel A licensed

The Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part I (Sulami, 1959)

Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part I (Sulami, 1959)

Part I of Sulami's 1959 history of the Indonesian women's movement in WIDF's magazine: Kartini, Putri Merdika (1912), Wanita Sedar, the 1928 Women's Congress, the Congress League of Indonesian Women, and demands on marriage, education and voting rights through 1941, with PKI influence noted after 1920. Prefaces the bir

GA-02812 1959 Sulami rel A licensed

The Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part II (Sulami, 1959)

Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part II (Sulami, 1959)

Part II of Sulami's 1959 history: Indonesian women under Japanese occupation (Fujinkai, women coerced as 'geishas'), the 1945 proclamation, founding of Perwari (Klaten, Dec 1945), the formation of KOWANI (Solo, Feb 1946), its second congress at Madiun deciding to affiliate to WIDF, and women's role in partisan resistan

GA-02815 1960 Sulami rel A licensed

Minah (short story by Sulami, 1960)

Minah: short story (Sulami, 1960)

'Minah', a 1960 short story by Sulami in Women of the Whole World, winning that magazine's monthly contest. Set in colonial and Japanese-occupation Java: Minah fights for schooling at Kartini's school, is married off, then resists Japanese Commander Josida's attempt to take her as second wife; Josida is shot as the ind

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