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GA-00642 1955-02-12 De Locomotief rel A

Nationale kwestie geworden: heronderzoek dwanghuwelijk van minderjarig meisje (The Maisuri case re-examined)

Now a national issue: re-examination of the Maisuri forced-marriage case

De Locomotief, 12 Feb 1955: the adat court at Tanjungraja re-examines the Maisuri case, a village girl forced by her father to marry a 45-year-old hadji, who instead married the youth she chose and was sentenced to six months with her husband and uncle. Prominent Palembang women and delegates of Gerwani's South Sumatra

GA-00879 1955-08-10 De Waarheid rel A

1945 - 17 Augustus - 1955: Maisuri geeft het voorbeeld

1945 - 17 August - 1955: Maisuri sets the example

De Waarheid, 10 Aug 1955, p. 5: illustrated story marking ten years of the Republic about Maisuri, a 17-year-old from Talang-Dukun, South Sumatra, sold by her parents to a landlord as fourth wife, who fled and married her chosen partner, was jailed for 'adultery' and freed after her mother turned to a Gerwani officer a