WIDF bulletin, 1950: 'From All Parts, Women Write to the WIDF' with reports from South Africa, Israel and Indonesia. The Indonesia section recounts women in the Republic's struggle against the Dutch, mass May Day rallies (390,000 in 1950), repression after the Madiun era, harsh conditions for plantation women, and supp
WIDF Bulletin no. 5/1952 'The Women of Indonesia': a WIDF-sympathetic account of postwar Indonesia in 1952, covering militarised budgets, unemployment, hunger, maternal and infant mortality, the Round Table legacy and US agreements. It says women formed committees for 8 March and Children's Day and that local GERWIS br
WIDF pamphlet 'I Want To Live' (Berlin, May 1954) campaigning to ban atomic weapons after the March 1954 Bikini H-bomb test, with Hiroshima testimonies, the Stockholm Appeal and WIDF appeals. Page 25 cites a resolution of 1 April 1954 in Jakarta by the National Congress of the 'Indonesian Women's Democratic Organisatio
Monica Felton (WIDF Vice-President) writes in 1954 on the Second Congress of Gerwani, which she attended: 349 delegates, 80,000 members, a meeting with President Sukarno, resolutions on West Irian, the 1955 elections, a nationwide marriage law, democratic rights and support for the government against armed gangs. She s
Soviet Woman, 28 Feb 1954, p. 30: article by Rantijem (SOBSI National Council member), written after her Nov 1953 USSR tour with a trade union delegation, on Indonesian women's conditions. Describes legal bars to women's state and foreign-firm work, unequal pay (4.30 rupees/day vs 155.49 subsistence minimum), no matern
WIDF magazine 'Women Write to Us' (1955), country letters after the World Congress of Mothers (Lausanne): Bulgaria, Argentina, France, India floods, and Indonesia. The Indonesia item reports delegate Mme Suryadarma's warm airport welcome, press and radio coverage of her Congress speech, and the Indonesian Women's Movem
Page 2 of the Daily Worker (New York, 26 Apr 1955) with Ralph Parker's 'Bandung Notebook' on the Asian-African Conference: Indonesian hosts, students, land and independence hopes. A separate item reports 27 doctors' protest over Claudia Jones's imprisonment, citing a WIDF report. Indonesian women appear only in a fragm
Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1955, p. 36 (fragment): 'Visit to Indonesia' by film-makers V. Mikosha and I. Sokolnikov, describing two months filming a documentary in Indonesia. Includes filming the welcome at Jakarta airfield for an Indonesian women's delegation returning from the USSR. Umi Sardjono, listed in metadata, does n
Page 8 of the Daily Worker (New York, 13 May 1955). A short Djakarta dispatch (12 May) reports that the central committee of Perwari, described as Indonesia's largest women's organisation, joined Pakistani women in criticising Prime Minister Mohammed Ali's second marriage, and recalls Perwari's protest the previous yea
Tribune (Sydney), 8 Jan 1958, p. 8: from Jakarta, Sukarno attended a party of the Indonesian National Preparatory Committee for the Asian-African Women's Conference due in Colombo in February; chair Mme Subandrio says it is inspired by the Bandung spirit. WIDF sends solidarity to Indonesian women in their 'courageous s
Tribune (Sydney), 8 Jan 1958, p. 8: from Jakarta, Sukarno attended a party of the Indonesian National Preparatory Committee for the Asian-African Women's Conference due in Colombo in February; chair Mme Subandrio says it is inspired by the Bandung spirit. WIDF sends solidarity to Indonesian women in their 'courageous s
'From Our Mailbag' (WIDF magazine, 1959): readers' letters from France, Germany, USA, Sudan, Egypt, Colombia and Indonesia. The Jakarta letter, from Mrs Lies Said, editor of the women's magazine Wanita (30,000 readers), says Indonesian women still await the Marriage Law and will keep struggling for equal rights. Gerwan
Tribune (Sydney), 18 Feb 1959, p. 4: brief Jakarta dispatch reporting that Gerwani, 'the influential Indonesian women's organisation', called on women to struggle for a democratic marriage law and demanded the Constituent Assembly guarantee women equal political, economic, social and family rights, as Parliament prepar
Tribune (Sydney), 18 Feb 1959, p. 4: brief Jakarta dispatch reporting that Gerwani, 'the influential Indonesian women's organisation', called on women to struggle for a democratic marriage law and demanded the Constituent Assembly guarantee women equal political, economic, social and family rights, as Parliament prepar
Women of the Whole World, 1961: staff writer Kate Lüders interviews Dagmar Bothas about a four-month government-guest visit to Java, Bali and Kalimantan, emphasising dance, music, temples and the literacy campaign (Minister Prijono). Gerwani appears only in a caption about May Day demonstrations; background material.
Peking Review no. 52 (29 Dec 1961), weekly Chinese state magazine. Gerwani appears only in a short 'China and the World' item (p. 20): Kuo Chien, head of the Chinese women's delegation to Gerwani's Fourth National Congress (Djakarta, 14-17 Dec), sent greetings backing Indonesian women's struggle for West Irian. The iss
Tribune (Sydney), 10 Jan 1962, p. 1 front-page editorial backing Sukarno's proclamation of West Irian as an Indonesian province and attacking the Menzies government and ALP leader Calwell. Gerwani appears only in a photo caption: delegates welcome Sukarno at the opening night in Jakarta of the recent Gerwani National C
Tribune (Sydney), 10 Jan 1962, p. 1 front-page editorial backing Sukarno's proclamation of West Irian as an Indonesian province and attacking the Menzies government and ALP leader Calwell. Gerwani appears only in a photo caption: delegates welcome Sukarno at the opening night in Jakarta of the recent Gerwani National C
Tribune (Sydney), 10 Jan 1962, p. 3: Gloria Garton, UAW national president, reports on her 3.5 weeks in Indonesia as WIDF and UAW representative at the 4th Gerwani Congress in Jakarta (14-17 Dec 1961) and a Java tour, with meetings of up to 2,000 in Semarang and Yogyakarta. Says West Irian is the biggest unifying issue
Tribune (Sydney), 10 Jan 1962, p. 3: Gloria Garton, UAW national president, reports on her 3.5 weeks in Indonesia as WIDF and UAW representative at the 4th Gerwani Congress in Jakarta (14-17 Dec 1961) and a Java tour, with meetings of up to 2,000 in Semarang and Yogyakarta. Says West Irian is the biggest unifying issue
Tribune (Sydney), 23 May 1962, p. 9: Laurie Aarons, Communist Party of Australia fraternal delegate, praises the Seventh Congress of the PKI as a mass party (383 delegates, 'two million' members) led by D.N. Aidit, with Sukarno speaking at the closing rally. Lists the mass organisations it leads: BTI, SOBSI and Gerwani
Tribune (Sydney), 23 May 1962, p. 9: Laurie Aarons, Communist Party of Australia fraternal delegate, praises the Seventh Congress of the PKI as a mass party (383 delegates, 'two million' members) led by D.N. Aidit, with Sukarno speaking at the closing rally. Lists the mass organisations it leads: BTI, SOBSI and Gerwani
WIDF publication on the World Congress of Women, Moscow, 24-29 June 1963 (1,543 women, 113 countries): reports, speeches, resolutions and the new WIDF council list. Gerwani is mentioned briefly: its roughly 1,000 day nurseries for working mothers are cited as a model; its role in the West Irian campaign is praised; and
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.
Moscow News (English), 25 April 1964, pp. 13-16 section. Includes a travelogue by a Soviet cultural-delegation member on Indonesia (new Jakarta monuments, Soviet-built stadium, 100,000 students, Lekra in Bandung) and a short item on a Moscow meeting marking Kartini's birth, run by the USSR-Indonesia Society's Women's C
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
Tribune (Sydney), 12 Aug 1964, p. 3: Enid Hampson, NSW secretary of the UAW and WIDF delegate to the recent congress of Indonesian women in Jakarta, tells Perth that Indonesian women were amazed at suggestions of aggression against Australia. The congress was run by 'WANITA', a body of 40 organisations, with Mme Suband
Tribune (Sydney), 12 Aug 1964, p. 3: Enid Hampson, NSW secretary of the UAW and WIDF delegate to the recent congress of Indonesian women in Jakarta, tells Perth that Indonesian women were amazed at suggestions of aggression against Australia. The congress was run by 'WANITA', a body of 40 organisations, with Mme Suband
Tribune (Sydney), 2 Sep 1964, p. 9: Enid Hampson reports on the 10th Congress of Indonesian women's organisations (WANITA, 40 organisations) in Jakarta, 24 July 1964, opened before 9,000 women; Mrs Subandrio gave the main report. Sukarno urged women to a bigger role, food and Malaysia were main themes; also land reform
Tribune (Sydney), 2 Sep 1964, p. 9: Enid Hampson reports on the 10th Congress of Indonesian women's organisations (WANITA, 40 organisations) in Jakarta, 24 July 1964, opened before 9,000 women; Mrs Subandrio gave the main report. Sukarno urged women to a bigger role, food and Malaysia were main themes; also land reform