Page of small advertisements in De Heerenveensche Koerier, 7 Sept 1951. The only relevant item announces that Mrs Trees Soenito-Heiligers will report on her journey to Korea at S. Brinksma's in Jubbega on 8 Sept (entrance 25 cents). The other adverts (trade schools, cattle shows, fairs) are unrelated.
De Nieuwsgier, 5 Apr 1952: a long report on Austria's coalition parties and Soviet occupation, with a one-line item that two Indonesian women, Nji Atjien and Nji Darsiah, were swept away by a river near Sukabumi. No connection to Gerwani or Soetanti Aidit; false hit.
Surabaya local-news column in De Vrije Pers (30 Jan 1953); only one item concerns Gerwis: its Surabaya branch announced a meeting on 1 Feb at the Kabupaten pendopo to explain the organisation's aims and the experiences of its delegation to Peking.
Short item, Indische Courant voor Nederland, 13 May 1953, p. 3: first group of the Indonesian delegation to the international women's congress in Copenhagen (5-12 June) leaves on the 'Surriento': Setiati Surasto (Sarbupri) and Maasje Siwi and Kartinah (both Gerwis); the Australian delegation is on board.
Newspaper page, Indische Courant voor Nederland, 13 May 1953 (OCR partly illegible). The only relevant article repeats that Setiati Surasto (Sarbupri) and Maasje Siwi and Kartinah (Gerwis) left on the 'Surriento' for the Copenhagen international women's congress, with the Australian delegation also aboard.
De Waarheid, 23 Jan 1954, p. 6: Annie Averink's review of Joop Wolff's Pegasus book 'Uit het rijk der duizend eilanden', based on a trip to Indonesia after the SOBSI congress of late 1952, with colonial-contrast views of Jakarta and kampongs. It notes that Gerwis, which organises workers' and peasants' wives, leads wom
De Waarheid, 1 May 1954, p. 4: travel report by Mak Meyer, a Dutch union delegate to the SOBSI conference, on Indonesian workers' misery: poverty, homelessness, factory conditions and wages, child labour, becak drivers, and figures such as 35,000 women dying in childbirth yearly. Portrays SOBSI and PKI as leaders and u
Harian Rakjat, 22 Mei 1954, hlm. 2. Page 2 with A. Umarsaid's travel notes on Sukarno's visit to Ambon and news; no Gerwis or Gerwani item.
Izvestiia, 20 Jun 1954. Travel notes by a member of the Soviet women's delegation (Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women) touring Indonesia: Jakarta, Boyolali rally where Gerwani representatives and the woman who invited them questioned the guests about the USSR, plantation conditions near Bandung, Round Table agreeme
Znamia, 31 Oct 1954, p. 124: opening of Yekaterina Shevelyova's travel essay 'On the Island of Java'. She says a Soviet Anti-Fascist Women's Committee delegation, invited by Gerwani, spent almost a month in Java, then summarises Dutch colonialism, the 1949 Round Table settlement, and the 1954 dissolution of the Dutch-I
Bintang Timur (Jakarta daily), 25 May 1956, full issue. A short item on page 2, 'Delegasi wanita tiba', reports that Indonesian women delegates to a GWDS (WIDF) meeting in China, named as Nyonya Priyino, Ridwan and Suharti, had returned to Jakarta, while fellow delegate Darmini had not yet returned and was invited to a
Neues Deutschland, 17 June 1956, p. 5: correspondent report 'Treffpunkt der Frauen ganz Deutschlands' from the World Conference of Working Women in Budapest. A young pregnant Indonesian delegate, unnamed, is moved to receive a pram with full baby outfit from the German delegation during gift exchanges with Chinese wome
Sunday Standard, 17 Sep 1957 (lead only, OCR garbled). An Indonesian women's delegation arrived in Singapore by air from Jakarta on its way to communist territories, including a study visit to Red China covering social, economic and political matters; Hidayat (a vice-president of parliament) is mentioned.
Api Kartini (1959) travel-style article by S. Jin on divided Berlin and German women's campaign against atomic armament and remilitarisation. Cites arrests and petitions in West Germany (Renate Kruse, Renate Riemeck, Elisabeth Heimpel, Hamburg and Dortmund women's groups), East German women's views, and WIDF telegrams;
Api Kartini travel report by Rusiyati, an Antara journalist, on her month-long visit to Australia (1960) at the invitation of the Australian International Women's Day committee. Describes staying with working-class, clergy, artist and industrialist families, meetings of 25-250 women, equal-pay campaigns, and Australian