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GA-00630 1953-12-17 De Locomotief rel B

Rustige invasie op het gouverneurskantoor: dames-verenigingen komen op voor de rechten der vrouw (A quiet invasion of the governor's office)

A quiet invasion of the governor's office: women petition for a marriage law

De Locomotief, 17 Dec 1953: about a hundred women from seven Semarang associations, led by Perwari and including Gerwis, ride 40 becaks to the Governor's Office to petition for a marriage law securing women's legal position and for a freeze on the 1952 regulation giving pensions to second-to-fourth wives. A Gedung Rakj

GA-01377 1954-10-07 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel B

Soekarno's huwelijk (Sukarno's marriage)

Sukarno's marriage

Tubantia/Twentsch Dagblad brief (7 Oct 1954): the Indonesian parliament asks the government's view on Sukarno's second marriage and, with communists voting against, agrees to consider a women's movement petition to deprive Muslim men of the right to marry more than one wife. Relevant to the polygamy campaign Gerwani an

GA-00793 1954-11-30 De Vrije Pers rel B

Kortom (In brief; Gerwani Bandung and Maisuri)

In brief: Gerwani Bandung congress sends sympathy to Maisuri

Column of short news items in De Vrije Pers (30 Nov 1954). Relevant item: a two-day Gerwani congress of the Bandung branch decided to send a message of sympathy to Maisuri, a young woman in South Sumatra who suffered a "forced marriage". Other items are unrelated world news.