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GA-02806 1954 Monica Felton rel A licensed

Dawn Over the Equator (Monica Felton on the Second Gerwani Congress, 1954)

Dawn Over the Equator: Monica Felton on the Second Gerwani Congress, 1954

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

GA-02936 1962 rel B licensed

Dilemmas of Indonesian Communism

Dilemmas of Indonesian Communism (van der Kroef, 1962)

Article by Justus M. van der Kroef (Pacific Affairs, summer 1962) on the PKI's dilemmas under Guided Democracy: dependence on Sukarno, the July 1960 'Evaluation' clash with the army, and the party's use of mass fronts. Gerwani is named as the PKI's women's front: its organ was aggressive without censure in 1961, and in