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2 itemsTopic: propaganda and media ✕Place: West Sumatra ✕Decade: 1950s ✕
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GA-02847 1958 WIDF rel A licensed

Indonesia: Women's struggle against foreign intervention (WIDF, 1958)

1958 WIDF note: Indonesian women write that the country faces rebellion backed by SEATO and the US (the PRRI/Permesta crisis), and that women join the struggle shoulder to shoulder with men. Gerwani sets up public kitchens, collects food and magazines for the front, runs first aid; in rebel-held West Sumatra its leader

GA-00467 1958-05-06 Bintang Timur rel A

DPP Gerwani memprotes Pemerintah AS dan Taiwan, Bintang Timur 6 Mei 1958

Gerwani DPP protests to the US and Taiwan governments (Bintang Timur, 6 May 1958)

Bintang Timur, 6 May 1958, p. 1 (after APRI's recapture of West Sumatran towns). Reports the Gerwani DPP's protest to the US and Taiwan governments over their intervention supporting Permesta/PRRI, demanding they stop interference, respect Indonesia's sovereignty and Asia-Africa, and appealing to American women to pres