Merdeka, 21 September 1951 (hlm. 2): 'Sekitar penangkapan S.K. Trimurti': Gerwis central board communiqué relaying in nine points the Attorney General's answers on the arrest of its vice-chair; ordered mid-August, letters found, detention depending on her statements.
Abadi, 30 Jan 1952, p. 2: customs at Tanjung Priok seized books of Gerwis member Nuraini (Langsa), including a Gerwis congress report, Bintang Merah and the Communist Manifesto, as 'proven communist leanings'.
Abadi, 4 Feb 1952, p. 2: provisional committee including Gerwis, Lekra and Pemuda Rakjat to celebrate 21 February 1952 world youth solidarity day.
Abadi, 1 Mar 1952, p. 2: Palembang women's organisations form a committee for International Women's Day chaired by Rochani Mailan of Gerwis; also reports of Krawang mothers selling children for rice.
Abadi, 5 Mar 1952, p. 2: during the cabinet crisis after the Sukiman cabinet fell, the Gerwis central board demands a coalition cabinet of religious, nationalist, socialist and progressive groups.
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.
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.
Abadi, 26 Mar 1952, p. 3: Gerwis backs the WIDF protest to the UN Secretary-General against alleged US germ warfare in Korea and urges Indonesia's UN delegate to support it.
Commemorative volume of the second Gerwis congress (Jakarta, 25–31 March 1954): greetings, foreign women's federations' telegrams, general report, resolutions, and the unanimous 30 March 1954 decision to rename Gerwis as Gerwani. Includes new statutes and a WIDF memorandum to the UN.
Suara Kalimantan (Banjarmasin), 9 Mar 1955, p. 3: report on International Women's Day (8 March 1955), about 1,500 women, mostly Chinese-Indonesian, with a lecture on Clara Zetkin by Nj. Soeparsono and a speaker from Gerwani.
Brochure of Umi Sardjono's general report to the Third DPP Plenum of Gerwani, 16–19 June 1956. Reviews election work, marriage-law cases, peasant women's wage struggles, kindergartens, peace and WIDF work, membership and cadre education, in the setting of Bandung and the 1955 elections.
Seven-page Ministry of Information file of short official biographies; only the first concerns Gerwani: parliamentary member no. 86 Umi Sardjono (b. Salatiga 1923, PKI list for East Java), with her career from Semarang telephone office to Kediri and Gerwani.
Pewarta Soerabaia, 3 Jan 1957, p. 4: Malang item on Gerwani Kota Besar Malang celebrating its sixth anniversary (30–31 Dec 1956) with a history of its founding, about 100 members and a sandiwara; page damaged.
Surabaya Post p. 2, 21 January 1957: Malang report on Masyumi MP A.W. Sujoso's lecture on the parliamentary mission to Moscow, mocking Soviet life and saying Indonesian women, 'surely also Gerwani', would reject Soviet views on free unions. Gerwani appears only as a foil in anti-communist rhetoric.
Merdeka, 12 Feb 1957, p. 3: Antara item on Jakarta women's organisations forming a committee for International Women's Day (8 March 1957), chaired by Ny. Jahja Malik (Perwamu), with Gerwani, Baperki and others.
Surabaya Post p. 2, 15 February 1957: brief reporting that the Surabaya women's organisation federation formed a committee, chaired by Gerwani, to celebrate International Women's Day, with other left and nationalist women's groups as officers. Evidence of Gerwani's leading role in local women's coalitions.
Merdeka, 4 Mar 1957, p. 3: twelve Surabaya women's organisations including Wanita Demokrat and Gerwani declare support for Sukarno's February 1957 Konsepsi, alongside veterans' groups.
Pewarta Soerabaia, 4 Oct 1957, p. 4: Lumajang women's federation revived on 21 Sept 1957 by Wanita Demokrat, Aisyiyah, Gerwani, Bhayangkari and others, with a new board drawn from all except Gerwani.
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.
Pewarta Soerabaia, 21 Nov 1957, p. 4: Malang municipality orders six organisations including BTI and Gerwani (Malang regency branch) to vacate the ruins of the former Societeit Concordia within seven days.
Inaugural issue of Api Kartini (June 1959), published by Jajasan Melati with Maasje Siwi as editor in chief. Built around Hari Kartini: Kartini's writings and socialist reading, profiles, and contributions from S.K. Trimurti, Rukiah Kertapati and Sulami.
Second issue of Api Kartini (Jajasan Melati, 1959). Covers the Vienna World Youth Festival delegation, West Irian, World Children's Day, Pramoedya's call to publish Kartini's works, an interview with athlete Karnah, and health and household columns.
Third issue of Api Kartini (Aug 1959), tied to the 17 August anniversary and return to UUD 45. Features women in the 1945–49 revolution, a poem against polygamy and cheap female labour, and international women's solidarity for Indonesian independence and West Irian.
Fourth issue of Api Kartini (1959). Editorial praises Sukarno's Political Manifesto; features a report on peasant women's economic conditions (land tenure, usury, wage discrimination), ethnography, recipes and household advice; contributors include S.K. Trimurti and Sudjinah.
Fifth issue of Api Kartini (1959). Cover profile of WIDF president Eugenie Cotton; Umi Sardjono cited on 235 Gerwani TK Melati kindergartens in Java; also Sumpah Pemuda editorial, ethnography of the Tengger, recipes and child-health advice.
Sixth issue of Api Kartini (Nov 1959), centred on Hari Pahlawan. Includes Sulami's report from the WIDF Bureau and Council in Prague, with Umi Sardjono and Mudigdio attending after visits to India and China, plus news on Albania and Yugoslavia.
Seventh issue of Api Kartini (Dec 1959), centred on Hari Ibu (22 December). Includes an article on the peace movement against nuclear testing, S. Djin's report on the November 1959 Latin American women's congress in Santiago, and an interview on food and clothing supply.
430-page commemorative volume (Ministry of Information, 1959) narrating the federated Indonesian women's movement from the 1928 congress through the revolution and KWI congresses to 1958; history drawn largely from Sri Mangunsarkoro.
Pamphlet by the Legal Commission of the Kongres Wanita Indonesia (22 Dec 1959): numbered chronology of the struggle over women's position in marriage from 1928, the 1937 draft ordinance, to post-independence marriage law debates.
First issue of Api Kartini's second year (Jan 1960). Editorial on price rises after the currency sanering and ministers refusing housewives' delegations; a profile of WIDF leaders (Carmen Zanti, Eugenie Cotton) ahead of the WIDF Bureau meeting in Indonesia.