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
ACWF mourns Kanba Michiko; Indonesian organisations support the Japanese people (Renmin Ribao, 25 June 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 25 Jun 1960, p. 5 (Xinhua): the All-China Women's Federation telegraphs mourning for Kanba Michiko, killed in the anti-Security Treaty protests. A Jakarta item says Gerwani, 'Indonesia's largest women's organisation', telegraphed condolences on 22 June and support for Japanese women and people; Indonesian
ACWF mourns Kanba Michiko; Indonesian organisations support the Japanese people (Renmin Ribao, 25 June 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 25 Jun 1960, p. 5 (Xinhua): the All-China Women's Federation telegraphs mourning for Kanba Michiko, killed in the anti-Security Treaty protests. A Jakarta item says Gerwani, 'Indonesia's largest women's organisation', telegraphed condolences on 22 June and support for Japanese women and people; Indonesian
Asia, Indonesia: the women of Indonesia (part 1)
Mainichi Shimbun (Tokyo morning edition, 27 Sep 1961, p. 5): article on part 1 of a series on the women of Indonesia (legible: Jakarta, women's organisation, mothers, education, school). The OCR is almost entirely scrambled, so this summary rests on the title and a few legible words; no named Gerwani member or Gerwani
Asia, Indonesia: the women of Indonesia (part 2)
Mainichi Shimbun (Tokyo morning edition, 28 Sep 1961, p. 5): article on part 2 of the series on the women of Indonesia (legible: Jakarta, women workers, Bali, India, China). The OCR is almost entirely scrambled, so this summary rests on the title and a few legible words; no named Gerwani member or Gerwani mention is vi
Crossroads: UN Status of Women, Indonesian delegate Mrs Abbas
Mainichi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 13 May 1962, p. 1): article on a profile of Mrs Abbas, Indonesian delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The OCR is almost entirely scrambled, so this summary rests on the title and a few legible words; no named Gerwani member or Gerwani mention is visible.
FBIS, 23 July 1963: Kim Ok-sun reports on Moscow WIDF parley
FBIS-monitored KCNA item (23 Jul 1963): Kim Ok-sun, first vice chair of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, reported to a Pyongyang meeting on the Moscow World Women's Congress, calling it a 'great blot' that ignored the anti-imperialist struggle and allowed an anti-Chinese racket. She lists the women's delegations of
FBIS-monitored KCNA report (24 Jul 1963): Pyongyang meeting welcoming the Indonesian women's delegation led by Mudikdio (Mudigdio), vice chairman of the Gerwani committee and MP. Kim Ok-sun praised the PKI as vanguard of anti-imperialist struggle; Mudigdio said emancipation without revolutionary struggle against coloni
Aidit in Pyongyang: Indonesian-Korean friendship (snippet)
Snippet-only Renmin Ribao extract (14 Sept 1963, p. 3) from Aidit's Pyongyang rally speech. It gives PKI-affiliated mass organisation figures, including 1.5 million women in Gerwani, described as the progressive women's organisation, and 1.5 million in Pemuda Rakyat. The full text is GA-01902.
D.N. Aidit, 'Indonesian-Korean friendship will last forever': Pyongyang speech, 11 September 1963
Full text (Renmin Ribao, 14 Sept 1963, p. 3, via Xinhua/KCNA) of D.N. Aidit's 11 September speech at a Pyongyang welcome rally: praise of North Korea, an outline of the Indonesian revolution, Nasakom, West Irian, the anti-US line and attacks on 'modern revisionism'. Gerwani appears once in the tally of PKI-aligned orga
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
Indonesia's woman Minister for Social Affairs visits Japan
Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo morning edition, 15 Apr 1964, p. 9): article on a visit to Japan by Indonesia's woman Minister for Social Affairs, headlined as remarkable advance of women. The OCR is almost entirely scrambled, so this summary rests on the title and a few legible words; no named Gerwani member or Gerwani mention i
Women advancing into nation-building: Indonesia's woman Minister for Social Affairs
Mainichi Shimbun (18 Apr 1964): article on the Indonesian woman Minister for Social Affairs and women entering nation-building; the article itself is unreadable (page text is about the postal service). The OCR is almost entirely scrambled, so this summary rests on the title and a few legible words; no named Gerwani mem
Indonesian women's delegation leaves Beijing for Korea (snippet)
Snippet-only Renmin Ribao item (8 Sept 1964, p. 5): a five-member Indonesian women's delegation led by Subandrio's wife, a Kowani foreign-liaison chair, leaves Beijing for North Korea; truncated. Gerwani is not named in the snippet. Full text is in the next record.
Indonesian women's delegation led by Subandrio's wife leaves Beijing for Korea
Xinhua note in Renmin Ribao (8 Sept 1964, p. 5): the five-member Indonesian women's delegation led by Subandrio's wife, a Kowani liaison chair, leaves Beijing for North Korea after arriving on 6 September; Chinese women's and friendship officials and Ambassador Chaerul Saleh see them off. Gerwani not named, but this is
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
Cable on Pak Seong-cheol's Discussion with Ambassador Jiao Ruoyu on Indonesia and Vietnam, 14 Dec 1965
Cable from the Chinese Embassy in North Korea, 14 Dec 1965, reporting a banquet conversation between DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Seong-cheol and Ambassador Jiao Ruoyu (Wilson Center Digital Archive; trans. Charles Kraus). Pak calls Sukarno still a leftist advocating Nasakom with high prestige, and warns that guerrilla wa
Kim Il Sung, Works Vol. 19 (Jan-Oct 1965), incl. Lecture at the Ali Archam Academy, Jakarta
Kim Il Sung, Works vol. 19 (January-October 1965), Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang 1984. Collects speeches and interviews, including the 14 April 1965 lecture at the 'Ali Archam' Academy of Social Sciences in Jakarta on socialist construction in North Korea and the South Korean revolution (p. 236), and a
Zhou Enlai and Kim Il Sung, Jakarta, 16 Apr 1965
Chinese Foreign Ministry minutes of Zhou Enlai's conversation with Kim Il Sung in Jakarta, night of 16 April 1965, at Subandrio's residence (Wilson Center; trans. Caixia Lu). Kim reports on the Korea-Indonesia joint statement negotiated with Sukarno (Vietnam, Korea-Japan talks, Asian-African Conference), the push for a
Zhou Enlai and Kim Il Sung, Jakarta, 19 Apr 1965
Short Chinese Foreign Ministry minutes (Chinese original with English translation) of Zhou Enlai's 30-minute talk with Kim Il Sung at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, 19 April 1965 (Wilson Center; trans. Caixia Lu). Zhou says the UAR and Algeria opposed a pro-Vietnam document and Pham Van Dong dropped it to protect the sec
Kim Il Sung and the Chinese Delegation, 28-29 Oct 1965
Cable by Yang Yong and Hao Deqing, 29 Oct 1965, recording Kim Il Sung's 28 Oct meeting with a Chinese People's Delegation (Wilson Center; trans. Jeffrey Wang and Charles Kraus). Kim covers Korean war preparations, Japanese militarism and Asia's revolutionary role; on Indonesia he calls the 30 September incident 'necess
Garajszki Report on Hungarian-Korean Solidarity Meeting and DPRK Views of the PKI, 14 Nov 1967
Hungarian Foreign Ministry information report by Istvan Garajszki, 14 Nov 1967, on Hungarian-Korean solidarity meetings (Wilson Center Digital Archive; trans. Balazs Szalontai). A North Korean embassy secretary, Choe Guk-hyeon, says the PKI erred by exposing all its leaders and members and by relying on Sukarno after t