Aidit's general report to the PKI Seventh Congress, part 2 (Renmin Ribao, 11 May 1962)
Renmin Ribao, 11 May 1962, pp. 4-5: Part 2 of D.N. Aidit's abridged general report to the PKI's Seventh Congress, covering finance for the eight-year plan, the international situation, PKI relations with the communist movement, and mass work. One paragraph says Gerwani, a 'revolutionary women's mass organisation', expa
Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi receive women delegates from Asia, Africa and Latin America
Renmin Ribao, 14 Jul 1963, p. 1 (Xinhua): Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi receive women delegates from Asia, Africa and Latin America, including Brazilians, Vietnamese NLF women and the Indonesian delegation (Gerwani CC member Pardjani Pradono, East Java Gerwani leaders Satrijo and Muninggar, Baperki, Christian and other women)
Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi receive women delegates from Asia, Africa and Latin America
Renmin Ribao, 14 Jul 1963, p. 1 (Xinhua): Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi receive women delegates from Asia, Africa and Latin America, including Brazilians, Vietnamese NLF women and the Indonesian delegation (Gerwani CC member Pardjani Pradono, East Java Gerwani leaders Satrijo and Muninggar, Baperki, Christian and other women)
Berliner Zeitung, 17 Dec 1964, p. 2: Significant declaration of the representatives of both parliaments (GDR-Indonesia)
Berliner Zeitung, 17 December 1964, p. 2: continuation of the joint declaration 'Bedeutsame Erklärung der Repräsentanten beider Parlamente' at the end of a GDR Volkskammer delegation's visit to Indonesia. It lists meetings with Sukarno, ministers and leaders, and records 'cordial encounters' with scientists and represe
Neues Deutschland, 17 Dec 1964, p. 7: Joint declaration of the representatives of the parliaments of the GDR and Indones
Neues Deutschland, 17 December 1964, p. 7: full text of the 'Gemeinsame Erklärung' signed in Jakarta on 11 December 1964 at the end of a GDR Volkskammer delegation's visit (30 Nov–12 Dec) led by Johannes Dieckmann. Delegates met Sukarno, ministers and parties; one sentence mentions meetings with 'representatives of the
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.
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
Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 16 Mar 1965: world protest over the Vietnam war (Gerwani statement)
Sovetskaia Kirgiziia, 16 Mar 1965, p. 3: page of TASS items on Vietnam war protests. Quotes a Gerwani statement, said to speak for over 2 million members, condemning US bombing of the DRV as 'a crime against humanity'. Also reports Indonesia withdrawing from the New York World's Fair over US support for Malaysia. Other
Renmin Ribao, 6 Apr 1965: Asian peoples volunteer to aid Vietnam (Umi Sardjono leads Gerwani women volunteers)
People's Daily, 6 April 1965, p. 4: Asian volunteering wave for Vietnam. The excerpt reports about a hundred women volunteers in green uniforms, led by Umi Sardjono, chair of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani), going to two (unnamed) places to declare their determination to serve as volunteers supporting Vietnam
Renmin Ribao, 6 Apr 1965: Asian peoples volunteer to aid Vietnam (Umi Sardjono leads Gerwani women volunteers)
People's Daily, 6 April 1965, p. 4: Asian volunteering wave for Vietnam. The excerpt reports about a hundred women volunteers in green uniforms, led by Umi Sardjono, chair of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani), going to two (unnamed) places to declare their determination to serve as volunteers supporting Vietnam
D.N. Aidit, 'Step up the revolutionary offensive on all fronts': political report to PKI plenum
Long Xinhua summary in Renmin Ribao (12 June 1965, p. 3) of D.N. Aidit's political report to the enlarged PKI Central Committee plenum, 'Step up the revolutionary offensive on all fronts': Nasakom, bureaucratic capitalists, takeovers of US firms, the Murba/BPS ban, Vietnam, the UN exit, Khrushchev's fall; PKI over 3 mi
Neue Zeit, 27 Nov 1965, p. 4: Strength lies in unity: twenty years of the Women's International Democratic Federation
Neue Zeit, 27 November 1965, p. 4 (women's page): 'Die Kraft liegt in der Einigkeit', a history of 20 years of the WIDF (IDFF). Indonesia appears once, in a list of imperialist armed aggressions (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaya, Korea) against which the WIDF organised protests. The article also stresses the DFD's role and I
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
Daily World, 17 June 1969: Women's congress cheers plea for a free Vietnam (WIDF Helsinki congress)
Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 17 Jun 1969) with a Beatrice Johnson report on the WIDF World Congress of Women in Helsinki. Vietnamese NLF delegate Nguyen Thi Binh appeals for US withdrawal, and the congress hears that hundreds of women are being tortured in camps and prisons in Greece, Indonesia, Spain and else
Women's movement needed: Truus Divendal on Gerwani and Indonesia
De Waarheid, 7 Sep 1971, p. 4: report on the NVB's speech by Truus Divendal arguing a women's movement is still needed. She reports fundraising for the South Vietnamese NLF and addresses Indonesia: Gerwani, which earlier played a large role in eliminating illiteracy, now has thousands of members imprisoned; the NVB dem
Resolution closing the NVB congress of 1971: lift the ban on Gerwani
De Waarheid, 1 Nov 1971, p. 6: report on the close of the NVB's 25th-anniversary congress, which adopted a resolution on education, equal rights and government policy and urged support for the Vietnamese NLF. The congress also demanded lifting of the ban on Gerwani and freedom for Angela Davis; G. van der Laan succeede
Berliner Zeitung, 22 Jan 1979, p. 2: Women give their voice to peace
Berliner Zeitung, 22 January 1979, p. 2: ADN report 'Frauen geben ihre Stimme dem Frieden' on a WIDF declaration calling for 8 March 1979 to be a mass manifestation for women's rights and peace, ahead of a Moscow world conference in the International Year of the Child. Among those greeted are women in Latin America, So
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
Tempo, 25 October 1980: Criticism of Tapol (Carmel Budiardjo vs Derek Davies)
Tempo piece (25 Oct 1980) on the polemic between British activist Carmel Budiardjo, editor of the Tapol bulletin in London, and Far Eastern Economic Review editor Derek Davies, who criticised her past communist links and new sponsors. Concerns advocacy for ex-G30S prisoners; no Gerwani content.