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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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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

GA-00096 1963 Api Kartini rel C licensed

4 Tahun Revolusi Kuba

Four Years of the Cuban Revolution

Api Kartini (early 1963) article marking four years of the Cuban Revolution, stressing Cuban women's heroism (Federation of Cuban Women head Vilma Espin) and their gains in literacy and work, then turning to the revolutionary struggle in Venezuela against Betancourt, in which women are urged to take part. Solidarity pr

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-02853 1963 WIDF rel A licensed

The Need for Social Services in Indonesia (WIDF, 1963): Gerwani kindergartens

The Need for Social Services in Indonesia: Gerwani kindergartens (WIDF, 1963)

1963 WIDF bulletin article 'The Need for Social Services in Indonesia': the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) and others push kindergartens. It reports a first National Seminar on kindergartens in 1959, teacher courses in 1961-62, the aim of one kindergarten per street, over 700 kindergartens (first started in 1951

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-00104 1964 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Sedikit tentang Gerakan Wanita Indonesia

A Little about the Indonesian Women's Movement

Api Kartini (late 1964) history of the Indonesian women's movement for Youth Pledge Day, tracing Kartini, Isteri Sedar, Perwari, wartime Fujinkai and Gerwis's founding on 4 June 1950 from the Gerakan Wanita Sedar, its name change to Gerwani after merging with railway workers' wives and Perwin Menado, joining Kowani and

GA-00109 1964 Hurustiati Subandrio rel B licensed

Kongres ke-X Wanita Indonesia: Wejangan Presiden Sukarno

Tenth Indonesian Women's Congress: Sukarno's Counsel

Report (1964) on the opening of the 10th Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani) at Istora, Jakarta, with extracts of Hurustiati Subandrio's speech and Sukarno's address. Sukarno calls for 'Manipolist' women, a cooperative body uniting women's organisations, and warns against admitting persons linked to subversion or bann

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-02781 1964 rel A licensed

Working Women Shape Their Future: 2nd International Trade Union Conference on the Problems of Working Women, Bucharest, 11-16 May 1964

Working Women Shape Their Future: 2nd International Trade Union Conference on Working Women, Bucharest 1964

Proceedings volume published by the World Federation of Trade Unions (Prague, 1964) of the 2nd International Trade Union Conference on the Problems of Working Women, Bucharest, 11-16 May 1964: agenda reports, delegates' speeches, a Charter on the Economic and Social Rights of Working Women and a memorandum to the ILO.

GA-02774 1967 rel A licensed

Surat Betka Papanek kepada Nani Suwondo, 15 Maret 1967

Letter from Betka Papanek to Nani Suwondo, 15 March 1967

Letter dated 15 March 1967 from Betka Papanek to Mrs Nani Suwondo, Djalan Pasar Minggu 39, Jakarta, apparently about a conference. OCR is almost entirely unreadable, so content beyond the address, date and a mention of a conference cannot be confirmed; summary rests on title and legible fragments. Nani Suwondo was a wo

GA-02860 1968 rel C licensed

The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women (Amara Raksasataya, 1968)

The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women (Raksasataya, 1968)

Chapter 'The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women' by Amara Raksasataya in The Annals of the American Academy (Jan. 1968, 'Women Around the World'). Surveys Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam: equal legal rights but modest office-holding; Thailand as case study of indirect influence. For

GA-02798 1969 rel C licensed

WIDF, Activities of the Women's International Democratic Federation, 1964-1969 (appendix)

WIDF Activities 1964-1969 (appendix to Sixth Congress report)

Chronological appendix (1969) to the WIDF activity report for the Sixth Congress, listing 1964-69 activities: Viet Nam and Middle East solidarity, peace and disarmament meetings, women's rights seminars, rights of the child, attendance at national congresses, Bureau and Council meetings, UN agency work and publications