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GA-00117 1960 Sulami rel A licensed

Wanita Italia

Italian Women

Article by Sulami (1960) reporting on the 8th national congress of the Union of Italian Women (UDI) in Rome in May, attended by 783 delegates and foreign guests including Indonesia. Describes Maria Maddalena Rossi and Marisa Rodano, the women's demands (equal pay, pensions for housewives, social security, opposition to

GA-00080 1961 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Harapan Jenab (Seminar Nasional Wanita Tani, 1961)

Jenab's Hope (National Seminar on Peasant Women, 1961)

Api Kartini (1961) human-interest profile of Jenab, a poor peasant woman from Pabuaran village, West Java, who attended the DPP Gerwani National Seminar on Peasant Women in Jakarta with her baby. Describes her family's poverty (8 of 12 children died) and her hopes for implementing the sharecropping and agrarian laws; n

GA-00082 1961 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Mati untuk Tanahair Berarti Hidup (Wanita Kuba)

To Die for the Homeland Is to Live (Cuban Women)

Api Kartini (early 1961) article on Cuban women in the revolution: the women's fighting unit led by Isabel Rieg (named after Mariana Grajales), Vilma Espin's description of rural hunger under Batista, and the August 1960 founding of the Federation of Cuban Women under Espin. Page also carries a humorous 'Mak Ompreng' c

GA-00108 1961 Hurustiati Subandrio rel A licensed

Jejak-langkah Wanita 1961

Women's Footsteps in 1961 (Hurustiati Subandrio)

Article by Hurustiati Subandrio (1961) reviewing women's activity at the start of 1961. She lists the Gerwani-organised National Seminar of Peasant Women (17-20 January, Gedung Wanita, Jakarta), the Asian-African Women's Conference in Cairo, and preparations for the Indonesian Women's Congress (6-8 February). She links

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-02816 1961 Sulami rel A licensed

The dawn is breaking (short story by Sulami, 1961)

The dawn is breaking: short story (Sulami, 1961)

1961 short story 'The dawn is breaking' by Sulami, 'our Indonesian correspondent', in Women of the Whole World. Peasant woman Sarinah, active in the peasant organisation, explains the new Agrarian Act and land reform to village women, including women's right to own land and head households; landlords pay the government

GA-00098 1963 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Kekuatan Baru: Gerakan Wanita Argentina

A New Force: The Argentine Women's Movement

Api Kartini (1963) article on the Argentine women's movement, chiefly the Union of Argentine Women's work: its magazine Nuestras Mujeres, campaigns for school milk, price cuts, mothers' law, solidarity with strikers and Cuba, literacy courses, and a fifth congress with 220 delegates. Includes a 'Varia' note on Sudanese

GA-00101 1964 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Dari Tavip: Berdiri di atas Kaki Sendiri

From Tavip: Standing on Our Own Feet

Api Kartini (1964) excerpt from Sukarno's Tavip (17 August 1964) address on landreform: demands implementation of UUPA and the sharecropping law within promised deadlines, endorses Landreform Courts, urges officials to consult peasants, links food self-sufficiency to land reform, and supports abolishing IGO/IGOB and im

GA-00102 1964 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Kesimpulan-Kesimpulan Seminar Wanita Rumah Tangga (1964)

Conclusions of the Housewives' Seminar (1964)

Api Kartini (1964) publication of the conclusions of the Gerwani National Seminar on Housewives. Four commissions set out positions on solidarity (Vietnam, China's nuclear test), Dwikora and 'crushing Malaysia', landreform and the UUPA/UUPBH, rat-eradication campaign under Aidit and Asmu, anti-corruption demands, a dem

GA-00105 1964 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Tavip Menjiwai 17 Agustus '64

Tavip Inspires 17 August '64

Api Kartini (Aug-Sept 1964) report on women's participation in 17 August 1964 celebrations inspired by Sukarno's 'Tavip' speech (Year of Living Dangerously). Describes the Gerwani DPP rally on 15 August, where over 700 Gerwani Dwikora volunteers from the Jakarta training centre (Tiswati Jaya) swore oath, then the Merde

GA-00106 1964 Api Kartini rel C licensed

The Era of Confrontation

Api Kartini (late 1964) article on Sukarno's 'The Era of Confrontation' speech at the Second Non-Aligned Summit, Cairo (5-10 October 1964), applied to Indonesia: confrontation with Malaysia and with the 'seven village devils' (landlords) in the interest of peasant women. Also carries a Kowani delegation's impressions o

GA-00110 1964 Kartinah rel A licensed

Wanita di Negeri Tembok Besar

Women in the Land of the Great Wall

Travel article by Kartinah (Kartinah Kurdi) (1964) on women in China, from an Indonesian delegation visit with Ibu Sumarno. She argues housewives are vital to the revolution and describes a Shanghai-area people's commune with women leaders, production figures, crèches, clinics and handicraft cooperatives. She uses this

GA-02151 1964-05-31 Soviet Woman rel A licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Mei 1964: 'A New Realm' (akhir laporan kunjungan delegasi Soviet ke Indonesia)

Soviet Woman, 31 May 1964: 'A New Realm', end of Soviet delegation's Indonesia visit report

Soviet Woman, 31 May 1964, p. (fragment): closing section of a Soviet Women's Committee delegation account of Indonesia (Mother's Day, Dec 1963), followed by an unrelated agricultural chemistry article. Delegates met Hurustiati Subandrio, Madame Supeni and 'Madame Umi Sarjono, Member of Parliament and President of Gerw

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

GA-02159 1965-07-31 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Juli 1965: 'The Kazma Springs' dan 'The Sun in Our Windows'

Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1965: 'The Kazma Springs' and 'The Sun in Our Windows'

Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1965, pp. 13-17: Soviet propaganda features, Igor Gaspel on 25 years of Soviet Estonia/Latvia ('The Sun in Our Windows') and Sergei Danilin's reportage on the Kazminsky collective farm, Stavropol, including women farm workers. No Indonesian, Gerwani or WIDF content; relevant only as sample of Sovie