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GA-01640 1951-03-10 Merdeka rel A

Merdeka, 10 Maret 1951, hlm. 3: 'Gelanggang Wanita'

Merdeka, 10 March 1951: 'Gelanggang Wanita' women's column

Merdeka, 10 Mar 1951, p. 3: women's column reporting that Jakarta's International Women's Day on 8 March 1951 was not commemorated by Indonesian groups for lack of Kowani consensus, while 1,500 Chinese women met with Ny. Aidit of Gerwis present.

GA-01646 1951-08-08 Merdeka rel B

Merdeka, 8 Agustus 1951

Merdeka, 8 August 1951: Peace Committee organisations form 17 August committee

Merdeka, 8 Agustus 1951 (hlm. 2): mass organisations under the Peace Committee form their own 17 August committee with a 'peace programme', Gerwis and Lekra running the programme section.

GA-00183 1952-03-10 Abadi rel A

Abadi, 10 Maret 1952, hlm. 3: Hari Wanita Internasional di Jakarta

Abadi, 10 March 1952, p. 3: International Women's Day in Jakarta

Abadi, 10 Mar 1952, p. 3: Antara report on Jakarta's International Women's Day celebration by nine women's organisations with Gerwis as general secretariat (about 1,000 attended, incl. MPs Mudigdo and Susilowati); Perwari asks for a woman minister.

GA-00184 1952-03-15 Abadi rel A

Abadi, 15 Maret 1952, hlm. 3: Surat S.K. Trimurti kepada organisasi wanita

Abadi, 15 March 1952, p. 3: S.K. Trimurti's Letter to Women's Organisations

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.

GA-01604 1992-01-08 Bernas rel B

Bernas, 8 Januari 1992: 'Pluralisme dan perempuan Indonesia'

Bernas, 8 January 1992: 'Pluralism and Indonesian women'

Bernas (Yogyakarta), 8 Jan 1992, p. 4: essay by a UGM student on Indonesian women's organisations 1945–65, noting sharp Guided Democracy conflict between Gerwani and Kowani culminating in 1965, and criticising later homogenisation.

GA-02881 1999 rel A

Kuntilanak Wangi: Organisasi-organisasi Perempuan Indonesia Sesudah 1950 (Wieringa, terj. Hersri Setiawan, 1999)

Kuntilanak Wangi: women's organisations in Indonesia after 1950 (Wieringa, transl. Hersri Setiawan, 1999)

Hersri Setiawan's Indonesian translation (Kalyanamitra, Dec 1999) of Wieringa's 1988 working paper 'The Perfumed Nightmare' on Indonesian women's organisations after 1950, with a compact history of Gerwani and the Lubang Buaya slander. Accessible Indonesian-language Wieringa.

GA-02863 2004 rel B

Gerakan Perempuan di Indonesia dari Masa ke Masa (Muhadjir Darwin, 2004)

Women's Movements in Indonesia through the Ages (Muhadjir Darwin, 2004)

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.

GA-02885 2010 rel A

Pasang Surut Gerakan Perempuan Indonesia (Wieringa, 2010)

Ups and Downs of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Wieringa, 2010)

Ten-page digest (in Komnas Perempuan's 2010 compilation) of Wieringa's Kuntilanak Wangi, tracing Indonesian women's movements from Kartini and Poetri Mardika to Gerwani, its rivalry with Perwari, the 1965 slander and New Order corporatism (Dharma Wanita, PKK). Concise overview.

GA-02859 2025 rel A

Transformasi Gerwani: Keterlibatan dalam Perjuangan Gender hingga Stigmatisasi Pasca 1965 (Aisyah, 2025)

Transformation of Gerwani: gender struggle to post-1965 stigmatisation (Aisyah, 2025)

Rania Dhiyaulhaq Aisyah, 'Transformasi Gerwani' (Jurnal Sejarah Indonesia 8:2, 2025), a literature-based article on Gerwani's pre-1965 gender activism (education, health, anti-polygamy, 1955 elections, PKI ties, congresses) and its post-1965 stigmatisation. It repeats Wieringa's finding that the Lubang Buaya sexual-vio