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GA-02803 1963 M. L. Huber rel C licensed

INDONESIA - a new state with an ancient civilization (M. L. Huber)

Indonesia: a new state with an ancient civilization (M. L. Huber, 1963)

Travel essay by M. L. Huber in Women of the Whole World, 1963, on a car journey from Jakarta toward East Java and Bandung, with a sweeping history of Indonesian civilisation, colonialism, the Round Table agreement and 1957 nationalisations, in a pro-Sukarno-era socialist-bloc framing. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-02853 1963 WIDF rel A licensed

The Need for Social Services in Indonesia (WIDF, 1963): Gerwani kindergartens

The Need for Social Services in Indonesia: Gerwani kindergartens (WIDF, 1963)

1963 WIDF bulletin article 'The Need for Social Services in Indonesia': the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) and others push kindergartens. It reports a first National Seminar on kindergartens in 1959, teacher courses in 1961-62, the aim of one kindergarten per street, over 700 kindergartens (first started in 1951

GA-02854 1963 WIDF rel A licensed

Indonesia: Report in preparation for International Women's Day and the World Congress of Women (WIDF, 1963)

Indonesia: preparations for International Women's Day and the World Congress of Women (WIDF, 1963)

1963 WIDF bulletin: Gerwani plans a broad campaign to prepare for the World Congress of Women (Moscow 1963) through the International Women's Day committee, chaired by Mrs Arudji Kartawinata and including Umi Sardjono (Gerwani president), Ratu Aminah Hidajat, Utami Suryadarma and others (18 organisations); also bazaar

GA-01680 1963-07-05 Peking Review rel A

Peking Review No. 27, 5 Juli 1963 (World Congress of Women, Moscow; statement of Umi Sardjono)

Peking Review no. 27, 5 July 1963: World Congress of Women, Moscow; statement of Umi Sardjono

Peking Review no. 27 (5 July 1963), Chinese state weekly, reporting the WIDF World Congress of Women in Moscow (June 1963). It covers the Chinese delegation's votes against the WIDF programme and Appeal, its statements, and the clash with the Indian delegate and chair over the Sino-Indian border. Umi Sardjono, head of

GA-01681 1963-07-19 Peking Review rel A

Peking Review No. 29, 19 July 1963: Parjani Pradono (Gerwani) criticises WIDF at Peking women's meeting

Peking Review no. 29, 19 July 1963: Parjani Pradono (Gerwani) criticises WIDF at Peking women's meeting

Peking Review Vol. VI No. 29, 19 July 1963, a Chinese weekly. The item of interest is 'Peking Acclaims Women Delegates From Asia, Africa and Latin America' (p. 17): at a Peking meeting after the Moscow World Congress of Women, Mme Parjani Pradono, Central Committee member of the Indonesian women's movement (Gerwani) an

GA-02148 1963-07-31 Soviet Woman rel A licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Juli 1963: Program Kegiatan WIDF (Kongres Moskow)

Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1963: WIDF programme and elected leaders (Moscow Congress)

Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1963, p. 44: WIDF programme adopted at its 1963 Moscow World Congress of Women, with an issue preview and the list of elected leaders. Eugenie Cotton re-elected president. Umi Sardjono (Indonesia) is named among Bureau members, with Freda Brown (Australia), Vilma Espin and others.

GA-02149 1963-09-30 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 30 September 1963: 'A German Peace Treaty' dan laporan Kongres Wanita Sedunia

Soviet Woman, 30 Sep 1963: 'A German Peace Treaty' and delegates' reports on the World Congress of Women

Soviet Woman, 30 Sep 1963, pp. 6-8: delegates' reports on the June 1963 World Congress of Women in Moscow: Fuki Kushida (Japan) on Tereshkova and the congress, Lotte Ulbricht (GDR) on a German peace treaty, Gondo Kikue on 'stitches for peace' banners, and Thamina Salam Adel's testimony on Ba'ath terror in Iraq. Umi Sar

GA-00101 1964 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Dari Tavip: Berdiri di atas Kaki Sendiri

From Tavip: Standing on Our Own Feet

Api Kartini (1964) excerpt from Sukarno's Tavip (17 August 1964) address on landreform: demands implementation of UUPA and the sharecropping law within promised deadlines, endorses Landreform Courts, urges officials to consult peasants, links food self-sufficiency to land reform, and supports abolishing IGO/IGOB and im

GA-00102 1964 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Kesimpulan-Kesimpulan Seminar Wanita Rumah Tangga (1964)

Conclusions of the Housewives' Seminar (1964)

Api Kartini (1964) publication of the conclusions of the Gerwani National Seminar on Housewives. Four commissions set out positions on solidarity (Vietnam, China's nuclear test), Dwikora and 'crushing Malaysia', landreform and the UUPA/UUPBH, rat-eradication campaign under Aidit and Asmu, anti-corruption demands, a dem

GA-00103 1964 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Rasialisme di Negeri Dollar (dan Pameran Buku)

Racism in the Land of Dollars (and a Book Fair)

Api Kartini (1964) article 'Racism in the Land of Dollars' on discrimination against 19 million African Americans (Birmingham bombing, voting restrictions), condemning also the 10 May 1963 anti-Chinese racist riots in West Java. The page continues with a short piece on a May book fair at Gedung Pemuda and encouraging w

GA-00104 1964 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Sedikit tentang Gerakan Wanita Indonesia

A Little about the Indonesian Women's Movement

Api Kartini (late 1964) history of the Indonesian women's movement for Youth Pledge Day, tracing Kartini, Isteri Sedar, Perwari, wartime Fujinkai and Gerwis's founding on 4 June 1950 from the Gerakan Wanita Sedar, its name change to Gerwani after merging with railway workers' wives and Perwin Menado, joining Kowani and

GA-00105 1964 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Tavip Menjiwai 17 Agustus '64

Tavip Inspires 17 August '64

Api Kartini (Aug-Sept 1964) report on women's participation in 17 August 1964 celebrations inspired by Sukarno's 'Tavip' speech (Year of Living Dangerously). Describes the Gerwani DPP rally on 15 August, where over 700 Gerwani Dwikora volunteers from the Jakarta training centre (Tiswati Jaya) swore oath, then the Merde

GA-00106 1964 Api Kartini rel C licensed

The Era of Confrontation

Api Kartini (late 1964) article on Sukarno's 'The Era of Confrontation' speech at the Second Non-Aligned Summit, Cairo (5-10 October 1964), applied to Indonesia: confrontation with Malaysia and with the 'seven village devils' (landlords) in the interest of peasant women. Also carries a Kowani delegation's impressions o

GA-00109 1964 Hurustiati Subandrio rel B licensed

Kongres ke-X Wanita Indonesia: Wejangan Presiden Sukarno

Tenth Indonesian Women's Congress: Sukarno's Counsel

Report (1964) on the opening of the 10th Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani) at Istora, Jakarta, with extracts of Hurustiati Subandrio's speech and Sukarno's address. Sukarno calls for 'Manipolist' women, a cooperative body uniting women's organisations, and warns against admitting persons linked to subversion or bann

GA-00110 1964 Kartinah rel A licensed

Wanita di Negeri Tembok Besar

Women in the Land of the Great Wall

Travel article by Kartinah (Kartinah Kurdi) (1964) on women in China, from an Indonesian delegation visit with Ibu Sumarno. She argues housewives are vital to the revolution and describes a Shanghai-area people's commune with women leaders, production figures, crèches, clinics and handicraft cooperatives. She uses this

GA-02150 1964-03-31 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Maret 1964: halaman campuran (termasuk 'Mother's Day', Ny. Malik)

Soviet Woman, 31 Mar 1964: mixed page including 'Mother's Day' (Mme Malik)

Soviet Woman, 31 Mar 1964, issue pages (Portsmouth family exchange, Iranian miniatures, sport, household tips). The only Indonesia item is a short box 'Mother's Day': Mme Malik, wife of the former ambassador, tells Soviet women at a reception that Indonesian women fought for freedom and West Irian, oppose Malaysia, and

GA-02151 1964-05-31 Soviet Woman rel A licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Mei 1964: 'A New Realm' (akhir laporan kunjungan delegasi Soviet ke Indonesia)

Soviet Woman, 31 May 1964: 'A New Realm', end of Soviet delegation's Indonesia visit report

Soviet Woman, 31 May 1964, p. (fragment): closing section of a Soviet Women's Committee delegation account of Indonesia (Mother's Day, Dec 1963), followed by an unrelated agricultural chemistry article. Delegates met Hurustiati Subandrio, Madame Supeni and 'Madame Umi Sarjono, Member of Parliament and President of Gerw

GA-02152 1964-05-31 Soviet Woman rel A licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Mei 1964: 'Our Visit to Indonesia' (Ludmila Balakhovskaya)

Soviet Woman, 31 May 1964: 'Our Visit to Indonesia' (Ludmila Balakhovskaya)

Soviet Woman, 31 May 1964: Ludmila Balakhovskaya's 'Our visit to Indonesia', on a two-week Soviet Women's Committee tour for Mother's Day (22 Dec) at Hurustiati Subandrio's invitation (Kowani). Notes 30 women among 300 MPs, creches and women's clubs, and that Gerwani runs 1,400 kindergartens (50+ children each), planni

GA-02153 1964-07-31 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Juli 1964: 'A Factory and Its Workers' (memuat profil 'Kartini')

Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1964: 'A Factory and Its Workers', with opening of a Kartini profile

Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1964, pp. 2-8: mostly a feature on the Minsk Tractor Works, a Soviet-American women's conference report by Lydia Kislova, and the opening of a Kartini profile, which tells of her 'pingitan' seclusion and quotes Indonesian ambassador Manai Sophiaan on Kartini Day (21 April). Gerwani is not mentioned

GA-01682 1964-10-09 Peking Review rel A

Peking Review No. 41, 9 Oktober 1964 (National Day guests incl. Suharti of Gerwani)

Peking Review no. 41, 9 October 1964: National Day guests including Suharti of Gerwani

Peking Review no. 41 (9 Oct 1964), Chinese state weekly, on the 15th anniversary of the People's Republic. A list of foreign guests received by Chinese leaders (p. 7) names Mme Suharti, PKI Central Committee member and First Vice-Chairman of Gerwani, with Mme Chairul Saleh (Women's Union of the Indonesian Republic), Mm

GA-02154 1964-11-30 Soviet Woman rel B licensed

Soviet Woman, 30 November 1964: 'Indonesia's Independence Day' (Kongres X Kowani)

Soviet Woman, 30 Nov 1964: 'Indonesia's Independence Day' (10th Kowani Congress)

Soviet Woman, 30 Nov 1964, p. 11-12: Victor Tsoppi's 'Indonesia's Independence Day' (with a separate Algerian woman's story). Madame Manai Sofian and Soviet women, incl. Nina Orlova, report on attending the 10th Congress of Kowani (Federation of Indonesian Women's Organizations) at Jakarta's stadium, invited by Hurusti

GA-02855 1965 WIDF rel A licensed

Our Road: Reports, Reportages, Information (WIDF, 1965), including 'GERWANI for Peasant Women'

Our Road: reports from many countries (WIDF, 1965), incl. Gerwani for Peasant Women

WIDF magazine 1965 'Our Road' news page (mid-1965), with reports on North and South Korean women, West German women against Emergency Laws, and Argentina/India/US actions. A 'GERWANI for Peasant Women' item says Gerwani's International Women's Day statement backed peasants' demands for the Basic Agrarian Law and Crop S

GA-02155 1965-03-31 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Maret 1965: 'Our Mailbag' dan 'Mother's Day'

Soviet Woman, 31 Mar 1965: 'Our Mailbag' and 'Mother's Day'

Soviet Woman, 31 Mar 1965: readers' letters page ('Our Mailbag') from India and Canada, plus a short 'Mother's Day' item. Mrs Manai Sofian, ambassador's wife, at a Moscow reception says the Russian Revolution inspired Indonesia's; Soviet women's greetings from the USSR-Indonesia Society. Gerwani not mentioned.

GA-02156 1965-03-31 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Maret 1965: 'Our Mailbag' (surat pembaca dari Indonesia)

Soviet Woman, 31 Mar 1965: 'Our Mailbag' (letters from Indonesian readers)

Soviet Woman, 31 Mar 1965, 'Our Mailbag' (pp. 11, 29): letters to the editor, including two from Indonesian readers: R. Santoso Ichsan praising Soviet aid and joint anti-imperialist struggle, and Rahadeng Hotoprojetno, a teacher-college history student writing a thesis on 'The Emancipation of Indonesian Women'. Other l

GA-02157 1965-04-30 Soviet Woman rel B licensed

Soviet Woman, 30 April 1965: 'Till We Meet Again' (delegasi KOWANI di Uni Soviet)

Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1965: 'Till We Meet Again', KOWANI delegation in the USSR (Nina Voronina)

Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1965, p. 18: Nina Voronina's 'Till we meet again', on a three-week USSR tour (Moscow, Riga, Leningrad, Dushanbe) by a five-woman KOWANI delegation: Basariah Simorangkir, Sidi Moehammad (WANI), Ani Boesiri, Ratjih Natawidjaja, Mimi Soeparmi, with Hurustiati Subandrio in Moscow. Left a message in the

GA-02158 1965-04-30 Soviet Woman rel B licensed

Soviet Woman, 30 April 1965: 'We Have Seen...' (Basariah Simorangkir, delegasi KOWANI)

Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1965: 'We Have Seen...' (Basariah Simorangkir, KOWANI delegation)

Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1965, pp. 18-21: Basariah Simorangkir (KOWANI Presidium) 'We Have Seen...' on the January 1965 KOWANI delegation's USSR tour, after Nina Voronina's 'Till we meet again'; delegates incl. Ratjih Natawidjaja (Wanita Marhaenis) and Mimi Soeparmi. Then unrelated anti-Nazi statute-of-limitation statement

GA-02856 1965-05 WIDF rel C

Women of the Whole World, May 1965: 20th Anniversary of Victory over Fascism

Women of the Whole World, May 1965: 20th anniversary of victory over fascism

Full May 1965 issue of Women of the Whole World (WIDF), a commemorative number for the 20th anniversary of victory over Nazism: women in the resistance, wartime memoirs and Sholokhov's story, Coventry, Leningrad, Warsaw, Lidice-type massacres, Dresden and Hiroshima, plus peace, Vietnam and anticolonial pieces. Indonesi

GA-02159 1965-07-31 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Juli 1965: 'The Kazma Springs' dan 'The Sun in Our Windows'

Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1965: 'The Kazma Springs' and 'The Sun in Our Windows'

Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1965, pp. 13-17: Soviet propaganda features, Igor Gaspel on 25 years of Soviet Estonia/Latvia ('The Sun in Our Windows') and Sergei Danilin's reportage on the Kazminsky collective farm, Stavropol, including women farm workers. No Indonesian, Gerwani or WIDF content; relevant only as sample of Sovie

GA-02160 1965-09-30 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 30 September 1965: 'Smiles of Victory' (memuat surat dari Indonesia)

Soviet Woman, 30 Sep 1965: 'Smiles of Victory', with letter from an Indonesian reader

Soviet Woman, 30 Sep 1965, p. 15: strike features (Foyle's bookshop, London; Mt Isa miners, Australia) and a letter from Indonesian reader Juli Agustini Soehodo, written for the 20th anniversary of Victory Day. She links Japanese occupation, Indonesia's 17 August anniversary and the heroine Herlina in West Irian, and c