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GA-00598 1957-03-30 Dagblad Voor Noord-Limburg rel C

'De vaders zijn niet rein': Mevr. Fatmawati Soekarno: 'Laat mij kabinet vormen' ('The fathers are not pure')

'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

GA-00740 1958-02-06 De TijD Godsdienstig-Staatkundig Dagblad rel C

Soekarno, de aartsintrigant (Sukarno, the arch-intriguer)

Sukarno, the arch-intriguer: profile including the Hartini marriage

Long profile of Sukarno by C.H. Schaap in De Tijd (6 Feb 1958) tracing his career and manoeuvres. It notes that in Oct 1954 his marriage to Hartini caused general indignation among Indonesian women, who remembered his book "Sarinah", and that Fatmawati left him. Gerwani is not named.

GA-02996 2012 rel A

Dilema Gerwani Hadapi Poligami Soekarno (Merdeka.com, 2012)

Gerwani's dilemma over Sukarno's polygamy (Merdeka.com, 2012)

Merdeka.com feature (24 Sep 2012) on Gerwani's dilemma over Sukarno's polygamy: it fought for a marriage law banning polygamy from 1950 but set the issue aside when Sukarno married Hartini, Dewi and Yurike Sanger, following the PKI line. Concise account of the polygamy contradiction.