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GA-00006 1951 rel A

Pedoman Bekerdja Gerwis, c. 1951

Gerwis Working Handbook, c. 1951

Founding handbook of Gerwis issued after the June 1950 Semarang fusion of six women's organisations: statutes, a catechism-style commentary, bylaws, an organising manual and a field guide for work among women workers, peasants, traders and workers' wives. Frames women's interest in anticolonial struggle.

GA-00005 1954 rel A

Kenang-kenangan Kongres Gerwis ke-2, 25–31 Maret 1954

Commemorative Volume of the Second Gerwis Congress, 25-31 March 1954

Commemorative volume of the second Gerwis congress (Jakarta, 25–31 March 1954): greetings, foreign women's federations' telegrams, general report, resolutions, and the unanimous 30 March 1954 decision to rename Gerwis as Gerwani. Includes new statutes and a WIDF memorandum to the UN.

GA-00008 1956 rel A

Meluaskan Aksi-aksi untuk Memperkuat Tuntutan Hak Wanita, Anak dan Perdamaian, 1956

Widening Actions for Women's, Children's and Peace Demands (Umi Sardjono, 1956)

Brochure of Umi Sardjono's general report to the Third DPP Plenum of Gerwani, 16–19 June 1956. Reviews election work, marriage-law cases, peasant women's wage struggles, kindergartens, peace and WIDF work, membership and cadre education, in the setting of Bandung and the 1955 elections.

GA-00001 1961 rel A

Peraturan Dasar Gerwani (Kongres IV), 1961

Gerwani Statutes (Fourth Congress), 1961

Gerwani statute booklet ratified at the Fourth National Congress, Jakarta, 14–17 December 1961. Includes a congress address on revisions, the Mukadimah (preamble) and 49 articles covering structure, membership and a Foreign Section; affiliates Gerwani with the WIDF and recounts the 1954 break with Gerwis.

GA-00002 1961 rel A

Program Gerwani (Kongres IV), 1961

Gerwani Programme (Fourth Congress), 1961

DPP Gerwani booklet with the 33-point Program Perdjuangan ratified at the Fourth Congress (Jakarta, December 1961), revising the 1957 Solo program. Keeps demands for women village heads, a democratic marriage law and price control; claims over one million members and sets three slogans.

GA-00009 1964 rel A licensed

Madju Terus untuk Pengintegrasian Total Gerwani dengan Wanita Buruh Tani dan Tani Miskin, 1964

Forward to Total Integration of Gerwani with Farm-Labourer and Poor Peasant Women, 1964

Brochure of Umi Sardjono's report to the Third DPP Plenum (Bandung, early 1964). Reviews domestic and world politics, Gerwani's work on children's education, TK Melati, legal aid and cadres, and argues for 'total integration' with farm-labourer and poor peasant women; notes a break with the WIDF majority.

GA-00142 1965 rel B

Sedjarah Perdjuangan Pemuda Indonesia

History of the Indonesian Youth Struggle (Youth Bureau, Ministry of Education and Culture, 1965)

Official history of the Indonesian youth movement (1908-1960) compiled by the Youth Bureau of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Balai Pustaka, Jakarta 1965 (prefaces dated Dec. 1963), in five periods. Gerwani appears only briefly: it is listed among organisations demanding action against the 1957-58 PRRI separatis