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GA-02443 1953-05-04 rel A licensed

Women's Delegation (FBIS, 4 May 1953)

FBIS, 4 May 1953: Women's delegation (to the Copenhagen congress)

FBIS item (4 May 1953): first group of Indonesia's delegation to the International Women's Congress in Copenhagen (from 5 June) left Jakarta by ship on 4 May: a SARBUPRI central committee woman (name garbled, Suranto), Maasje Siwi and Kartinah, both of Gerwis. Records named Gerwis delegates to the WIDF congress.

GA-02805 1961 Maasje Siwi rel A licensed

The dream of an Indonesian peasant woman (Seminar Nasional Wanita Tani)

The dream of an Indonesian peasant woman: National Seminar on Peasant Women (1961)

1961 article by Maasje Siwi on Gerwani's first National Seminar on Peasant Women's Problems. Describes peasant hardships (debt, child marriage, easy divorce, exclusion from village office) and demands: land reform and women's land ownership, crop-sharing law, abolition of colonial ban on women village heads. Features d

GA-02374 1963-07-15 rel A

Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance (WIDF Moscow World Congress of Women)

CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance, 15 July 1963: WIDF Moscow World Congress of Women

CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance, 15 July 1963, on the Sino-Soviet clash at the WIDF Moscow World Congress of Women (June 1963). It quotes the Indonesian press of 9 July, per NCNA, carrying a statement by Maasje Siwi, general secretary of GERWANI, condemning the undemocratic handling of the congress and saying Gerwani