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GA-00311 1964-12-31 The Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette rel B

Claim of landing by Malaysians (Toowoomba Chronicle, 31 Desember 1964)

Claim of landing by Malaysians

Toowoomba Chronicle, 31 Dec 1964, p. 1 (AAP-Reuters): Sukarno claims Indonesian police arrested two groups of armed Malaysian infiltrators and says 'Malaysia does not exist'. Second item: about 500 housewives, including Mrs Subandrio, protest rising prices in Jakarta in a demonstration organised by the Indonesian Women

GA-01961 1965-03-08 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 8 Maret 1965: Protes keras atas pemboman AS di Vietnam; 75.000 pemuda berapat di Indonesia (强烈抗议美国再次轰炸越南民主共和国)

Protests against US bombing of Vietnam; 75,000 youth rally (snippet)

Snippet-only Renmin Ribao extract (8 Mar 1965, p. 4) on Indonesian protests against US bombing of North Vietnam. It quotes Suwati Trimo (name uncertain) and Sulami of the Gerwani volunteers' command pledging support in the name of three million Gerwani women volunteers; truncated. Full text is GA-01962.

GA-01962 1965-03-08 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 8 Maret 1965: Protes keras atas pemboman AS di Vietnam; 75.000 pemuda berapat di Indonesia (强烈抗议美国再次轰炸越南民主共和国)

Strong protests against US bombing of Vietnam; 75,000 youth rally in Semarang

Xinhua dispatches in Renmin Ribao (8 Mar 1965, p. 4): 75,000 youth in Semarang demand confiscation of US capital and expulsion of the Peace Corps; Buddhists protest at the US Embassy. Women volunteers' leaders, including Gerwani volunteer-command leaders Sulami and Suwati Trimo (uncertain) and adviser Mrs Arudji Kartaw

GA-01963 1965-03-09 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 9 Maret 1965: Ny. Kartawinata: tak bisa hidup damai dengan imperialisme; enam juta sukarelawati siap (卡塔威纳塔夫人说同帝国主义绝不能和平共处)

Mrs Kartawinata: no peaceful coexistence with imperialism; six million women volunteers (headline)

Snippet-only entry (Renmin Ribao, 9 Mar 1965, p. 4) with headline and citation only: Mrs Kartawinata says there can be no peaceful coexistence with imperialism and that Indonesia's six million women volunteers are ready to fight. Gerwani content is in the full text, GA-01964.

GA-01964 1965-03-09 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 9 Maret 1965: Ny. Kartawinata: tak bisa hidup damai dengan imperialisme; enam juta sukarelawati siap (卡塔威纳塔夫人说同帝国主义绝不能和平共处)

Six million women volunteers ready: International Women's Day feature on Indonesia

Xinhua feature in Renmin Ribao (9 Mar 1965, p. 4) for International Women's Day on Indonesia's 'six million' women volunteers, enrolled since Sukarno's March 1964 call: military training, takeovers of US Information Service offices and US plantations, street protests. Mrs Arudji Kartawinata and Kartini Radjasa are quot

GA-01498 1965-03-27 New York Times rel A licensed

Reds, Pressing Reforms, Win Wide Peasant Support in Java (New York Times, 27 Maret 1965)

Reds, pressing reforms, win wide peasant support in Java (New York Times, 27 March 1965)

New York Times, 27 March 1965, p.55, Neil Sheehan from Klaten, Central Java: on how the PKI and affiliates win peasant support through land-reform agitation and practical projects. Mrs. Sukarni, chair of the Klaten district women's organisation (Gerwani) and district committee member, says Gerwani works to remove restr

GA-03340 1965-06-08 Berita Harian rel A

Amaran terhadap gerakan pertubohan wanita (Watch out for women's organisations, says a man)

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

GA-01088 1965-09-23 Het Vrije Volk rel B

Protest in Djakarta tegen duurte

Protest in Jakarta against high prices

Short ANP item in Het Vrije Volk (23 Sep 1965, p.9), one week before the coup attempt: thousands of Indonesian women demonstrated at the Ministry of Trade in Jakarta against rising prices of necessities, as reported by PKI paper Harian Rakjat. They demanded strong action against capitalists, bureaucrats, swindlers and

GA-01380 1965-09-23 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel C

Kort en klein (Short and small)

Short and small (women's price demonstration)

'Kort en klein' column, Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (23 Sep 1965). One Indonesia item: thousands of women demonstrated before the trade ministry against high prices, per PKI paper Harian Rakjat, urging action against capitalists and bureaucrats. Organisers not named, Gerwani not mentioned. Other items unrelated.

GA-01381 1965-09-23 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel C

Kort en klein (Short and small)

Short and small (women's price demonstration, duplicate)

'Kort en klein' column, Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (23 Sep 1965), duplicate of the previous item. Thousands of women demonstrated before the trade ministry against high prices, per Harian Rakjat, urging action against capitalists and bureaucrats. Organisers not named, Gerwani not mentioned.

GA-03409 1965-09-24 Neue Zeit rel B licensed

Neue Zeit, 24 September 1965, S. 4: Selbständig und gleichberechtigt (Halme des Reises als Symbol des Glücks)

Neue Zeit, 24 Sep 1965, p. 4: Independent and equal (stalks of rice as a symbol of happiness)

Neue Zeit, 24 September 1965, p. 4 (women's page): ADN reportage "Halme des Reises als Symbol des Glücks – Selbständig und gleichberechtigt" by ADN Jakarta correspondent Helga Pe[...] on Indonesian women's life. It claims women drive cars, work as police and journalists, make up almost half of students and that the dep

GA-02182 1965-10-23 Suara Merdeka rel A

Suara Merdeka, 23 Oktober 1965, hlm. 2–3

Suara Merdeka, 23 October 1965, pp. 2-3: PNI women ask Kowani to take a stand on G30S

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 23 Oktober 1965, hlm. 2–3. Three Gerwani items: PNI women ask Kowani (Hurustiati Subandrio) to take a position on G30S, opening the move toward Gerwani's exclusion; a businesswoman declares she is not Gerwani; a rally of 67 East Java organisations.

GA-00993 1965-10-28 Friese Koerier OnafhankelijK Dagblad Voor Friesland En Aangrenzende Gebieden rel C

Wereldpresidente mevrouw Van Beekhoff is weer thuis (ACWW)

World president Mrs Van Beekhoff is home again (ACWW)

Friese Koerier profile (28 Oct 1965, p.15) of Geerda van Beekhoff-van Selms, outgoing world president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), recounting her travels, congresses and the non-political, no-communist-members policy of ACWW. Indonesian women appear only as donors of a Yogyakarta silver dish. No

GA-01065 1965-11-09 Het Parool rel B

Opnieuw betoging tegen P.K.I. (vrouwen juichen Soeharto toe)

Another demonstration against the PKI (women cheer Suharto)

Het Parool wire report (9 Nov 1965) under 'Women cheer Suharto': 100,000 anti-communist demonstrators in Jakarta demand a ban on the PKI and 'crushing' of the 30 September movement; the army searches a Chinese quarter. Thousands of women marched to National Front headquarters; Suharto thanked them for loyalty to the ar

GA-01077 1965-11-09 Het Rotterdamsch Parool rel B

Opnieuw betoging tegen P.K.I.: vrouwen juichen Soeharto toe

Another demonstration against the PKI: women cheer Suharto

Het Rotterdamsch Parool report (9 Nov 1965, p.1) under 'Women cheer Suharto', same wire text as other Dutch papers: 100,000 anti-communist demonstrators in Jakarta demand banning the PKI; the army searches a Chinese quarter; thousands of women march to the National Front HQ, are addressed by Suharto and cheer him, repr

GA-00497 1966-03-09 Algemeen Handelsblad rel C

Militairen kijken toe: Scholieren in Djakarta opnieuw in de aanval (Militer menonton: pelajar Jakarta kembali menyerang)

Soldiers look on: schoolchildren in Jakarta attack again

Algemeen Handelsblad (1966-03-09, pp. 1 and 11): student and schoolchildren demonstrations in Jakarta, tanks outside ministries, a student demand to ban the PKI, and Siliwangi troops beating the Cakrabirawa guard to the university. Sukarno told a meeting of Indonesian women (unnamed) to amend a resolution to condemn Am

GA-02333 1969-01-11 Daily World rel C licensed

Women's political rights worldwide, including Indonesia illiteracy figures

Daily World, 11 January 1969: Women's political rights worldwide

Daily World, 11 Jan 1969, p. M-5: feature on women's political rights worldwide, covering suffrage dates, education and the work-family dilemma. Indonesia appears only in passing, with the figure that some years earlier 42% of Indonesian men and 70% of women were illiterate, and as a country granting women equal status

GA-01502 1969-01-14 Ottawa Citizen rel C licensed

Embassy tea for 40th anniversary of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 14 Januari 1969)

Embassy tea for 40th anniversary of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 14 January 1969)

Ottawa Citizen, 14 Jan 1969, p.31 (women's page): a one-paragraph social note that Mrs. I. Darmo Bandoro will host a tea at the Indonesian embassy residence on 21 Jan 1969 for the 40th anniversary of the Indonesian Women's Movement. The rest of the page is unrelated social and advertising copy. Gerwani is not mentioned

GA-03348 1970-12-31 The Straits Times rel B

Rape case may fully restore rule of law (Hugh Mabbett on the Sum Kuning case)

Rape case may fully restore rule of law: the Sum Kuning case (Hugh Mabbett, Straits Times, 1970)

The Straits Times, 31 December 1970, p. 10, by Hugh Mabbett: Yogyakarta court acquits 17-year-old egg seller Sum Kuning (Sumarijem), who reported rape by youths from powerful families and was charged with a false report. Police tortured a noodle seller, Trimo, and threatened her with electric torture and an accusation

GA-01503 1971-12-17 Ottawa Citizen rel C licensed

Embassy coffee morning to commemorate the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 17 Desember 1971)

Embassy coffee morning to commemorate the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 17 December 1971)

Ottawa Citizen, 17 Dec 1971, p.31 (women's page): a short social note that Mrs. I. Darmo Bandoro will hold a coffee morning on Wednesday 29 Dec at 11 a.m. at the Indonesian embassy to commemorate the Indonesian Women's Movement (the Mother's Day anniversary). The remainder is unrelated (toy torture kits, Christmas safe

GA-01489 1972-08-16 Edmonton Journal rel C licensed

Women's studies column, with note on Indonesian women's movement and polygamy (Edmonton Journal, 16 Agustus 1972)

Women's studies column, with note on Indonesian women's movement and polygamy (Edmonton Journal, 1972)

Edmonton Journal, 16 Aug 1972, p.20: a column on Women's Studies reviewing the essay collection Woman in Sexist Society. A short passage on non-Western women's status notes that Indonesian women's active economic role, and that the Indonesian women's movement's major goals were abolition of polygamy and divorce by repu

GA-01544 1974 Vashti's Voice rel B licensed

Vashti's Voice, Women's Liberation Newspaper, Issues 6-9 (1974-1975)

Vashti's Voice, Women's Liberation Newspaper, issues 6-9 (1974-1975)

Issues 6-9 (March 1974 onward) of Vashti's Voice, a Melbourne women's liberation newspaper, covering rape crisis, abortion, women's theatre and conferences. The only Indonesia item found is a page of Jakarta family-planning posters in Indonesian; no legible mention of Gerwani survives in the poor OCR.

GA-02229 1974-06-29 Tempo rel A licensed

Ultah SK Trimurti (Ulang tahun S.K. Trimurti)

Tempo, 29 June 1974: S.K. Trimurti's birthday

Tempo profile (29 June 1974) of S.K. Trimurti on her 64th birthday by the Javanese calendar: ex-Minister of Labour (1946-47), journalist since 1933, now editing the spiritual magazine Mawas Diri. Notes her will asking for cremation, her economics degree at 48, a forthcoming biography by Kustiniati Mochtar. No mention o

GA-03422 1975-02-01 Neues Deutschland rel C licensed

Neues Deutschland, 1. Februar 1975, S. 15: Paris war das Reiseziel für Delegierte aus aller Welt

Neues Deutschland, 1 Feb 1975, p. 15: Paris was the destination for delegates from all over the world

Neues Deutschland, 1 February 1975, p. 15 (anniversary supplement for International Women's Year): retrospective 'Paris war das Reiseziel für Delegierte aus aller Welt' on the 1934 World Women's Congress against Fascism and War in Paris. Among the speakers, 'the delegate Siti' (surname not given) brought greetings from

GA-02331 1975-07-02 Daily World rel C licensed

Mexico Conferees Tie Women's Freedom to Economic Problems (Women under capitalism; Indonesian delegate)

Daily World, 2 July 1975: Mexico conferees tie women's freedom to economic problems

Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 2 Jul 1975) with a special report from the UN International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City. Delegates from Italy, Fiji, Norway and Indonesia describe discrimination against women workers under capitalism, including lower pay and unemployment; tensions between US feminists a

GA-00946 1978-03-04 De Waarheid rel B

De NVB (Internationale Vrouwendag 1978)

The NVB (International Women's Day 1978)

De Waarheid, 4 Mar 1978, p. 5: article on the NVB's record around International Women's Day, listing its causes since the war: disarmament, anti-nuclear action, opposition to wars in Korea and Vietnam, international solidarity with Gerwani in Indonesia and anti-apartheid women, and women's rights at home. Contrasts the

GA-03426 1979-01-22 Neues Deutschland rel C licensed

Neues Deutschland, 22. Januar 1979, S. 2: Frauen erheben ihre Stimme für Frieden und Abrüstung

Neues Deutschland, 22 Jan 1979, p. 2: Women raise their voice for peace and disarmament

Neues Deutschland, 22 January 1979, p. 2: ADN item 'Frauen erheben ihre Stimme für Frieden und Abrüstung' on the WIDF (IDFF) statement for International Women's Day 1979. In a list of greetings to women fighting under repression, the WIDF greets women in Chile, Nicaragua, Uruguay and other Latin American countries 'as

GA-00950 1979-03-24 De Waarheid rel A

Kliniek (Gerwani-polikliniek 1958, Tanti Aidit)

Clinic (Gerwani polyclinic 1958, Tanti Aidit)

De Waarheid, 24 Mar 1979, p. 8: sidebar on the clinic Gerwani opened on International Women's Day, 8 March 1958, a polyclinic and advice bureau for women in its building (destroyed in 1965), run by Tanti Aidit, now 12 years in pre-trial detention. Annie van Ommeren recalls the 1975 trial of Sulami (life), Suharti Harso

GA-00372 1979-10-24 Tribune rel C

Cauldron: Women and Labor No. 2 (Tribune, 24 Oktober 1979)

Cauldron: Women and Labor No. 2

Tribune (Sydney), 24 Oct 1979, p. 11, 'Cauldron' women's column: planning for the second Women and Labor Conference (Melbourne, May 1980); the Melbourne group's monthly meetings have covered topics including the Indonesian women's movement; plus a note on rising female unemployment. No Gerwani detail.

GA-03430 1979-11-24 Neue Zeit rel C licensed

Neue Zeit, 24. November 1979, S. 12: Bei den Minangkabau regieren die Mütter

Neue Zeit, 24 Nov 1979, p. 12: Among the Minangkabau the mothers rule

Neue Zeit, 24 November 1979, p. 12 ('Rund um die Welt'): feature 'Bei den Minangkabau regieren die Mütter' on the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra (about three million people, around Bukittinggi). It describes matrilineal descent, women's ownership of house and land, men's role as outside representatives, and ad