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
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
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
Racism in the Land of Dollars (and a Book Fair)
Api Kartini (1964) article 'Racism in the Land of Dollars' on discrimination against 19 million African Americans (Birmingham bombing, voting restrictions), condemning also the 10 May 1963 anti-Chinese racist riots in West Java. The page continues with a short piece on a May book fair at Gedung Pemuda and encouraging w