Farewell report by outgoing Perwari chair Kusban, in Siaran Perwari (Jan 1951, congress issue), narrating Perwari's history during the revolution, including flight from Malang after the first Dutch attack in July 1947.
Harian Rakjat, 29 Feb 1952, p.2 (Warta Daerah/news roundup): reports the reformed board of Gerwis Jakarta branch (chair S. Mardiman; secretary Tuty; finance A. Sunadi; labour Tuty Darta; peasants Kartinah, provisional; Gang Tengah 29). Also a Tegal committee of four women for 8 March International Women's Day chaired b
Harian Rakjat, 13 Mar 1952, p.3: article by S.K. Trimurti on the Kongres Wanita Indonesia (Kowani) conference due from 15 March in Jakarta. She urges unity among all women's organisations (naming Perwari, Muslimat, Wanita Demokrat, Gerwis), voting by consensus, and action on women's unemployment, prices and labour. The
Abadi, 15 Mar 1952, p. 3: Trimurti's open letter (while detained) to women's organisations before a Kongres Wanita Indonesia conference, proposing majority voting and a minimum programme on schools, rice prices, women's and child labour, and trafficking.
Harian Rakjat, 19 April 1952. On p. 5 a short report says the 8 March (International Women's Day) Committee held its dissolution meeting at the Gerwis building, Gang Lontar, Jakarta, chaired by Ny. Sutanti Aidit of Gerwis; delegates of Gerwis, Pemuda Puteri Indonesia, Perwari, PWKI and other women's bodies adopted a re
Harian Rakjat, 14 May 1952. Pp. 1 and 4 report a meeting convened on Ki Hajar Dewantara's initiative to organise commemoration of 20 May (National Awakening Day); S.K. Trimurti of Gerwis spoke first, backing the plan and urging concrete action; Perwari and Gerwis are named among the women's organisations present. The f
Pewarta Soerabaia, 7 Oct 1957, p. 2: Surabaya women's federation elects a board (30 Sept 1957) with the governor's wife as patron and Nj. Moh. Tam of Gerwani as first secretary.
Berita Yudha, 11 Juni 1966. Front page: Lt-Gen. Suharto at Perwari's 10th congress, where he is honoured 'Penyelamat Revolusi' and claims 40% of Central Java army units had been infiltrated; Gerwani mentioned.
Muhadjir Darwin's survey (March 2004) of Indonesian women's movements from precolonial heroines through the 1928 Women's Congress, Fujinkai, Kowani and the Sukarno-era polygamy campaign against Hartini, to the New Order. Short historical overview.
Undergraduate article (2017) on the twelfth Kowani congress, Jakarta, 6-9 Feb 1961, arguing it tied the women's movement to government policy under Guided Democracy and sidelined polygamy and literacy issues; notes a Perwari-Gerwani split. Mostly general survey.
Historia article (2018) on the 1953 women's campaign against Government Regulation 19/1952 giving civil-service pensions to all widows of polygynous officials, including the 17 Dec 1953 mass meeting at Deca Park attended by Gerwani and others. Context on the anti-polygamy movement.