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GA-00074 1960 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Gema Revolusi (fragmen)

Echoes of the Revolution (fragment)

Fragmentary Api Kartini (1960) item 'Echoes of Revolution': OCR remnants of a rhetorical piece or poem on women marching, crushing colonialism, and demanding equal rights in politics and economy. Too damaged to summarise beyond title and these themes.

GA-00075 1960 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Delegasi Kongres Wanita Indonesia di Korea Utara

Kowani Delegation in North Korea

Fragmentary Api Kartini item (1960s) closing a statement by the Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani) delegation after visiting North Korea, thanking hosts, praising Korean revolutionary culture and socialist construction, and backing Korean reunification and the 'Crush Malaysia' campaign. Signatories listed include Suh

GA-00076 1960 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Persahabatan yang Semakin Kokoh (Indonesia - Uni Soviet)

Ever Firmer Friendship (Indonesia-USSR)

Api Kartini (late 1960) item on strengthening Indonesia-USSR friendship: state visits by Sukarno and Khrushchev, cultural and economic agreements, Indonesian students at Friendship University, Soviet-built Asian Games stadium and a Soviet industrial exhibition in Jakarta. Reports that after the Copenhagen assembly an I

GA-00077 1960 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Setiakawan Wanita dari Berbagai Negeri

Women's Solidarity from Many Countries (against the Karel Doorman)

Api Kartini (1960) compilation of foreign women's solidarity statements against the Dutch dispatch of the carrier Karel Doorman and troops to Irian Barat. Includes Dutch women's movement (NVB) protests to parliament and a Rotterdam petition, a WIDF statement backing Indonesia, and a message from Australian miners' wive

GA-00078 1960 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Ulang Tahun Revolusi Agustus yang ke-15

The 15th Anniversary of the August Revolution

Api Kartini (Aug-Sept 1960) report on the 15th anniversary of the August Revolution: summarises Sukarno's 17 August address to the DPR-GR plenary and speech (Manipol-USDEK, unity of Nasakom groups, landreform, retooling, firm line on Irian Barat). Also prints editorial replies to readers in Lombok and Central Java. Con

GA-00112 1960 Maasje Siwi rel B licensed

GWDS 15 Tahun: Berjuang untuk Kebahagiaan Keluarga dan Perdamaian Dunia

WIDF at 15: Fighting for Family Happiness and World Peace

Api Kartini article (1960) by Maasje Siwi, an Api Kartini staff member who attended the WIDF Council in Warsaw (29 Nov-5 Dec 1960), marking the WIDF's 15th anniversary. Delegates from 61 countries heard Eugenie Cotton review WIDF history (1948 manifesto, 1953 Copenhagen congress, 1955 Lausanne mothers' congress, 1958 V

GA-00116 1960 Sulami rel A licensed

Sarinah dari Abad ke Abad

Sarinah through the Ages

Short illustrated piece by Sulami (c. 1959-60), written for the anniversary of the August Revolution, tracing women's history from Kartini, the 1928 Youth Pledge and the 22 December 1928 women's congress to demands for equality, education and political rights. It cites Sukarno's Manipol and the book 'Sarinah', and urge

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-02773 1960 rel C licensed

BOM ATOM meneruskan PEMBUNUHAN sesudah limabelas tahun (Api Kartini, 1960)

The Atom Bomb Continues to Kill After Fifteen Years (Api Kartini, 1960)

Article in Api Kartini (1960), in Indonesian, 'The atomic bomb continues to kill after fifteen years'. A Japanese mother tells of her daughter Hiroko Kayiyama, who died of leukaemia in April 1960 aged 17 after Hiroshima radiation. It notes Japanese women delegates at the WIDF assembly in Copenhagen (21 April 1960) and

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-02814 1960 Sulami rel A licensed

Kartini (Sulami, 1960)

Sulami's 1960 piece 'Kartini' for the anniversary of R.A. Kartini: biography (b. 1879, child-marriage custom, letters, schooling of girls, marriage as Regent's wife), Kartini as symbol for Indonesian women's national and emancipation struggle, quoting Sukarno's 1959 lecture. Paired with a parallel profile of Egyptian f

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-02851 1960 WIDF rel C licensed

The Bomb continues to kill fifteen years after (WIDF, 1960)

WIDF magazine 1960 item on Hiroshima victims: a mother's letter to the Copenhagen international assembly of women recounts her 17-year-old daughter Hiroko Kajiyama's death from leukaemia on 5 April 1960, plus remarks on Japan's ratification of the US-Japan security pact. No Indonesian content or Gerwani mention.

GA-00079 1961 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Dua Tokoh Wanita Surat-Menyurat, Satu Hasrat: Perdamaian Abadi

Two Women Leaders Exchange Letters, One Wish: Lasting Peace

Api Kartini (1961) exchange of open letters on peace between Ny. A. Hidayat, a leader of the Indonesian peace committee, and Nina Popova of the Soviet women's movement, about nuclear tests, disarmament and the Soviet space flights of Gagarin and Titov. The page also carries a mother's letter to school-age children. Pea

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-00081 1961 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Kumandang: Sidang Dewan Setiakawan Asia-Afrika, Bandung 1961

Echoes: Afro-Asian Solidarity Council Session, Bandung 1961

Api Kartini (1961) 'Echoes' column on the Afro-Asian Solidarity Council session in Bandung, 10-14 April 1961, based on interviews with women delegates. Features Marthe Moumie of Cameroon (widow of the poisoned Felix Moumie), delegates from Ceylon, Vietnam (Nguyen Thi Luu) and Iran, and a tea hosted by DPP Gerwani for t

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-00083 1961 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Pembicaraan Majalah Women of the Whole World

On the Magazine Women of the Whole World

Api Kartini (1961) feature introducing the WIDF's monthly magazine 'Women of the Whole World' (six languages, Berlin), describing its sections on women's rights, peace, children and culture, and its photo covers. Gives subscription details for Indonesian readers (Rp. 12 per year via Jakarta) and notes administrative de

GA-00084 1961 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Sejarah Perjuangan yang Berkesan (Pameran HUT ke-10 Gerwani, 1961)

A History of Struggle Remembered: Exhibition for Gerwani's 10th Anniversary, 1961

Api Kartini (mid-1961) report on the exhibition at Gerwani's 10th anniversary (from 5 June 1961), with an interview of chair Umi Sardjono on Gerwani's history. Founded 4 June 1951 (first congress Surabaya, 17-22 Dec 1951), 185 branches, membership from 6,000 to 710,000, 326 kindergartens, 23,000 election workers; six m

GA-00085 1961 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Surat dari New York: Pemuda Amerika Serikat dan Perdamaian

Letter from New York: American Youth and Peace

Api Kartini (1961) item 'Letter from New York': a young American woman's account (Bettina Aptheker, per the editors' note) of growing American youth peace activism, with marches, vigils and demonstrations from 1960 to August 1961 and the formation of a single national peace organisation. Printed by the editors in Indon

GA-00086 1961 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Untuk Demokrasi, Hak-Hak Wanita, Sandang-Pangan (Kongres Nasional ke-IV Gerwani, 1961)

For Democracy, Women's Rights, Food and Clothing (Fourth National Congress of Gerwani, 1961)

Api Kartini report on the 4th National Congress of Gerwani, Jakarta, December 1961 (about 400 delegates and observers), with Sukarno attending. Lists foreign guests: Gloria Garton for WIDF, Soviet, Chinese and East German delegates. Sukarno called Gerwani one of the forces for the Irian Barat struggle and urged total u

GA-00087 1961 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Wanita A-A Bertemu di Kota Seribu Menara (Konferensi Wanita Asia-Afrika, Kairo 1961)

Afro-Asian Women Meet in the City of a Thousand Minarets (Cairo, 1961)

Api Kartini (1961) report on the Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo, 14-23 January 1961. Indonesian delegation: Iwanah Priyono, Francisca Fanggidaej, Sugiarto, Lies Haryoto and Arifin Sudaryo. Priyono's speech linked women's nature to opposing nuclear war and colonialism; the conference issued resolutions on Algeri

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-00113 1961 Nguyen Xuan Tram rel C licensed

Neraka Dunia

Hell on Earth

Api Kartini item (1961), a review of Nguyen Xuan Tram's book 'Hell on Earth' on South Vietnamese women prisoners under Ngo Dinh Diem, including mothers jailed with infants and tortured. It ends by condemning planned US military intervention (General Maxwell Taylor's mission) as a threat to peace in Southeast Asia. Gerw

GA-02802 1961 Kate Luders rel C licensed

Dance, Music, Architecture - Lively Testimony to Indonesian Culture (Kate Lüders with Dagmar Bothas)

Dance, Music, Architecture: Testimony to Indonesian Culture (Lüders and Bothas)

Women of the Whole World, 1961: staff writer Kate Lüders interviews Dagmar Bothas about a four-month government-guest visit to Java, Bali and Kalimantan, emphasising dance, music, temples and the literacy campaign (Minister Prijono). Gerwani appears only in a caption about May Day demonstrations; background material.

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-02852 1961 WIDF rel C licensed

In National Colours (WIDF, 1961): Asian and African postage stamps

In National Colours: Asian and African postage stamps (WIDF, 1961)

WIDF magazine 1961 stamp feature 'In National Colours' on postage stamps of newly independent Asian and African states, commemorating liberation, public works, agrarian reform, education and women (Mongolia, Korea, Ceylon, UAR, Vietnam, China). An Indonesian stamp is listed among liberation-themed issues. Gerwani is no

GA-02857 1961 Yvonne Quiles rel C licensed

Hand in Hand: Cairo plays host to the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference (Yvonne Quiles, 1961)

Hand in Hand: Cairo hosts the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference (Quiles, 1961)

Special report by Yvonne Quiles in WIDF's magazine (1961) on the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo (January 1961, ~200 delegates, 50 countries): anticolonial denunciations, calls for solidarity and disarmament, a resolution on a liaison body and journal, debates on women's rights and personal status. Indones

GA-00003 1962 rel A licensed

Seminar Nasional Wanita Tani, 17-20 Januari 1961 (DPP Gerwani)

National Seminar on Peasant Women, 17-20 January 1961 (DPP Gerwani)

Gerwani national leadership (DPP) brochure of the National Seminar on Peasant Women, Jakarta, 17-20 January 1961 (published 1962). Contains the DPP keynote on peasant-women's emancipation against imperialism and feudal remnants, speeches by BTI, ministers and D.N. Aidit, regional delegates' land-tenure reports, a Mudig