Api Kartini No. 1, Year 2, January 1960
First issue of Api Kartini's second year (Jan 1960). Editorial on price rises after the currency sanering and ministers refusing housewives' delegations; a profile of WIDF leaders (Carmen Zanti, Eugenie Cotton) ahead of the WIDF Bureau meeting in Indonesia.
Api Kartini No. 3, Year 2, March 1960
March 1960 issue devoted to the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day and the Copenhagen International Women's Congress (21–24 April 1960); interviews with delegation figures Arudji Kartawinata, Ratu Aminah Hidajat and Hurustiati Subandrio.
Api Kartini No. 4, Year 2, April 1960
April 1960 issue on Hari Kartini and the fifth anniversary of the Bandung Conference. Kartini as writer and painter, her translations, and a historical essay on the women's movement from Kartini to the 1928 congress and after.
Api Kartini No. 5, Year 2, May 1960
May 1960 issue on women workers: wage discrimination, absent childcare and maternity protection, and non-enforcement of ILO Convention 100. Also a piece on Christina Martha Tiahahu and a short story about a cigarette-factory worker.
Api Kartini No. 6, Year 2, June 1960
June 1960 issue marking the magazine's first anniversary, Gerwani's tenth anniversary exhibition and World Children's Day. Profile of Kartini's son Singgih Soesalit and Sukarno's return and inauguration of DPR-GR.
Api Kartini No. 8, Year 2, August 1960
August 1960 issue for the 15th anniversary of independence: Sukarno's address to DPR-GR, a profile of Ceylon PM Sirimavo Bandaranaike with her letter of thanks to Gerwani, and a satire on state-enterprise corruption.
Api Kartini No. 9, Year 2, September 1960 (probable)
Probably September 1960 issue, focused on peasant women: a poem, an essay linking Kartini to an upcoming Gerwani seminar on peasant women (case of landless widow Mak Ni), a Batak ethnographic feature and the Rome Olympics.
Women's Political Rights, 1960 (PKI Women's Department)
Brochure from the PKI Central Committee Women's Department (Feb 1960) for International Women's Day's 50th anniversary: Mudigdio's parliamentary speech, Law 68/1958 ratifying the UN Convention on Women's Political Rights, and PKI positions in the Konstituante.
The Marriage Law, 1960 (PKI Women's Department)
PKI Women's Department brochure (March 1960) comparing the PKI fraction's 1957 marriage-law draft with the PNI initiative bill of Soemari clause by clause (monogamy, consent, age, registration), with Suharti's article.
Gerwani Statutes (Fourth Congress), 1961
Gerwani statute booklet ratified at the Fourth National Congress, Jakarta, 14–17 December 1961. Includes a congress address on revisions, the Mukadimah (preamble) and 49 articles covering structure, membership and a Foreign Section; affiliates Gerwani with the WIDF and recounts the 1954 break with Gerwis.
Gerwani Programme (Fourth Congress), 1961
DPP Gerwani booklet with the 33-point Program Perdjuangan ratified at the Fourth Congress (Jakarta, December 1961), revising the 1957 Solo program. Keeps demands for women village heads, a democratic marriage law and price control; claims over one million members and sets three slogans.
Api Kartini No. 4-5, Year 3, April-May 1961
Double issue (Apr–May 1961, 40 pp.) for Kartini Day and Education Day, dense with transnational content including a visiting Chinese cultural mission and embassy commemorations in Cairo, Rome, Moscow and New York.
Api Kartini No. 8, Year 3, August 1961
August 1961 issue for the 16th independence anniversary: slogan against feudalism and imperialism, Sukarno's Hari Ibu speech that women need socialism, praise of Soviet women doctors and China's communes, Moscow Film Festival.
Umi Sardjono, 'Change the face of our homeland step by step' (speech to the MPRS, Harian Rakjat, 19 December 1960; JPRS
JPRS translation (1961) of Umi Sardjono's speech to the MPRS plenary, Harian Rakjat 19 Dec 1960, 'Change the Face of Our Homeland Step by Step', backing the eight-year development plan: self-sufficiency in food and clothing, heavy industry, distribution controls, cooperatives, and price policy; she addresses women's su
National Seminar of Women Peasants in Indonesia, 17-20 Jan 1961 (JPRS 8325)
JPRS translation (24 May 1961) of four Harian Rakjat items on Gerwani's first National Seminar of Women Peasants, 17-20 January 1961, including Kartinah Kurdi's working paper and D.N. Aidit's speech. Key source on Gerwani's peasant-women programme and class analysis.
Api Kartini No. 3, Year 4, March 1962
March 1962 issue on International Women's Day: its history from the socialist women's movement and suffrage victories to the 1962 Jakarta commemoration at UI; cover commemorates Clara Zetkin.
Total Unity on the Nasakom Axis: Sukarno's Speech to Gerwani's Fourth Congress, 14 December 1961
Ministry of Information pamphlet of Sukarno's 14 Dec 1961 speech to Gerwani's Fourth Congress. He attacks the aristocratic 'ladies' movement' and demands a revolutionary, radical women's mass movement in line with Nasakom.
US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1962): Gerwani telegram to Sukarno
US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1962) extract: the Gerwani central executive council sends a telegram to Sukarno opposing draft legislation on compulsory preliminary people's defence training for 12-15 year olds, warning it would implant a 'militaristic spirit' as in Germany and Japan, and saying scouts and basic e
Api Kartini No. 2, Year 5, February 1963
February 1963 issue: report on the Congress of Women of the Americas, Havana, 11–15 Jan 1963 (425 delegates, a Gerwani delegate present), women as village heads, and a translated German travelogue.
Api Kartini No. 11-12, Year 6, November-December 1964
Double issue (Nov–Dec 1964) centred on the DPP Gerwani National Seminar on Housewives, 4–6 Nov 1964 (20 of 23 provinces), classifying housewives by class and consciousness, with addresses by Subandrio, Hurustiati Subandrio and Rukiah Kertapati.
Plans and tasks of the Indonesian women's movement, by Suwati Trimo (Harian Rakjat, 4 January 1964; JPRS)
JPRS translation of a Harian Rakjat piece (4 Jan 1964) by Suwati Trimo (Sutrimo) on Gerwani's plans after the 1961 Fourth Congress, plus the end of another National Front speech and an Aidit message to prison personnel. Reports membership growth (Surabaya 14,434 to 16,231; Jakarta trained 45 cadres), peasant and anti-'
Modern Indonesian History: stencilled lecture text (Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 1964)
Stencilled lecture text, 'Sedjarah Modern Indonesia' (1964), by Pramoedya Ananta Toer for a literature faculty course (cover bears 'Res Publica'); OCR is very noisy. Introduction (pp. 2-5) defines 'history', 'modern' and 'Indonesia' from a Marxist-nationalist view; later chapters treat Dutch colonial exploitation, assi
Dolgozó Nő, 24 Jan 1964: from Indonesia (Kowani 35th anniversary)
Dolgozó Nő, 24 Jan 1964. Travel report by Czechoslovak delegate Mária Brencicová on the 21 Dec 1963 festive session of Kowani in Jakarta, marking 35 years of the unified women's movement and 25 years of Mothers' Day, with Sukarno present. Describes Kowani (40 organisations), poverty, and women's patriotic tasks. Gerwan
Warning against women's organisations' movement (Sudibjo at a Gerwani rally, Berita Harian, 1965)
Berita Harian, 8 June 1965, p. 3, Reuters: at a Gerwani political-military rally, National Front secretary-general Sudibjo warns the public to be vigilant against 'womanish' bourgeois women's organisations that are 'afraid of politics' and 'afraid of the people' and want to 'lure men'. Shows Gerwani's mobilisation in 1