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GA-02319 2021-10-04 Tempo English rel A licensed

The Feminist in Two Councils (Umi Sardjono in the Konstituante and DPR)

Tempo English, 4 October 2021: The feminist in two councils (Umi Sardjono in the Konstituante and DPR)

English edition of Tempo's 'The Feminist in Two Councils' (4 Oct 2021, Hussein Abri) on Umi Sardjono as legislator (Constituent Assembly 1955, DPR-GR 1959-65). It covers her immigration reform, marriage-bill push (minimum age 21, ban on polygamy, Maisuri case, 115 harmful marriages) opposed by Kowani's Islamic groups,

GA-03011 2024 rel B

Ogah Dipaksa Kawin, Maisuri Kawin Lari Berujung Dibui (Historia, 2024)

Refusing forced marriage, Maisuri eloped and was jailed (Historia, 2024)

Historia article (24 July 2024) on the 1954-55 Maisuri case in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra: a girl forced into marriage to an elderly man with three wives fled, eloped and was jailed by an adat court. A forced-marriage case later taken up in Gerwani's campaigns.