Short Tempo item, 5 January 1980, on the release of Dr Soetanti Aidit, 57, widow of PKI chairman D.N. Aidit, from detention on 20 December 1979. Held from 1966 in Bukit Duri women's prison and never moved, she was separated from her five children for 13 years, declines to talk about the past and hopes to practise medic
Berliner Zeitung, 10 January 1985, p. 5. ADN/BZ brief '63 UNO-Staaten gegen Frauendiskriminierung': according to the UN press office, Indonesia and Jamaica ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, bringing the total to 63 states including all socialist states; the USA, Br
Neue Zeit, 10 January 1985, p. 1: a two-sentence "Kurz informiert" item from New York, "Gegen Frauendiskriminierung", reporting that Indonesia and Jamaica have ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, bringing the total to 63 states; the USA, Britain and West Germany a
Neues Deutschland, 10 January 1985, p. 5: ADN news item from New York reporting that Indonesia and Jamaica have ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, bringing ratifications to 63, including all socialist states; the USA, Britain and West Germany had not joined. Brie
Neue Zeit, 24 July 1985, p. 6. ADN report 'Künftig gibt es mehr Frauen als Männer' on the UN report on world population: women will outnumber men by 175 million by the end of the next century. Indonesia is a one-sentence example: according to the UN report, Indonesian women have a working day 20 percent longer than men
People's Daily World, 4 Nov 1986, p. 7-A: short item on worldwide protests against the execution of nine Communist political prisoners in Indonesia under Suharto, several jailed for years; a PKI representative links the executions to the 45% rupiah devaluation. Readers urged to write to Suharto. Surrounded by Haiti and
Tempo, 2 Sep 1989. Reports the release from Tangerang women's prison on 17 August 1989 of Sundari Abdulrachman (68), former chair of Gerwani Pusat and PKI member of DPRGR, sentenced to life at Tanjungkarang on 16 Oct 1976 (commuted 1982) for organising Gerwani in Lampung. Officials deny that Inter-Parliamentary Union p