Part 1: The women's movement, the women of Indonesia (Asahi Shimbun, 16 January 1957)
Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 16 Jan 1957, p. 2), part 1 of a series on the women's movement among Indonesian women, apparently by a Japanese woman writer who visited. OCR is badly scrambled; fragments mention Sumatra, Jakarta, women's organisations, possibly polygamy, and New Delhi. No Gerwani name legible.
'The fathers are not pure': Mrs Fatmawati Sukarno: 'Let me form a cabinet'
Dagblad voor Noord-Limburg, 30 Mar 1957: Fatmawati, Sukarno's first wife, who left the palace after his 1954 marriage to Hartini 'to the great indignation of the Indonesian women's organisation', proposes in an open letter that a non-party woman form the new cabinet ('the fathers are not pure'). Page also covers anti-c
Masyumi leader warns against 'playing with fire'
Winschoter Courant (30 Mar 1957), news round-up. Relevant: Fatmawati Sukarno writes asking why a woman cannot form a cabinet, with a note that women's organisations took Sukarno's second marriage badly. Also Masyumi's Isa Anshary on cabinet formation, searches of Jakarta banks, and Aidit threatening a general strike un
Dolgozó Nő, 1 May 1957: the Indonesian women's movement named 'Gerwani'
Hungarian women's magazine Dolgozó Nő, 1 May 1957. Short piece on the Indonesian women's movement 'Gerwani': women can now vote and stand for parliament (17 women candidates, 40 women officials), its educational work helped force a parliamentary resolution against H-bomb tests, women face cheap labour, no marriage law,