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7 itemsTopic: marriage law and polygamy ✕Person: Umi Sardjono ✕Language: Indonesian ✕
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GA-01440 1952-07-23 Harian Rakjat rel A

Harian Rakjat, 23 Juli 1952: Umi Sardjono, 'Peraturan no. 19 masih tetap tidak adil'

Umi Sardjono: 'Regulation no. 19 is still unjust' (Harian Rakjat, 23 July 1952)

Harian Rakjat, Jakarta, 23 July 1952 (full issue; p. 3 relevant). Article by Umi Sardjono on Government Regulation 19/1952 (widows' pensions): nearly all women's organisations object, some demanding repeal, others accepting pensions but opposing polygamy. She says the rules in effect encourage polygamy, and recalls tha

GA-00008 1956 rel A

Meluaskan Aksi-aksi untuk Memperkuat Tuntutan Hak Wanita, Anak dan Perdamaian, 1956

Widening Actions for Women's, Children's and Peace Demands (Umi Sardjono, 1956)

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.

GA-00454 1956-04-17 Bintang Timur rel A

Bintang Timur, 17 April 1956: Umi Sardjono di DPR soal kasus Maisuri

Umi Sardjono in the DPR on the Maisuri case (Bintang Timur, 17 April 1956)

Bintang Timur (Jakarta daily), 17 April 1956, full issue. The Gerwani-relevant item is a report on the DPR debate on the Ali Sastroamidjojo cabinet programme, in which Umi Sardjono (Fraksi Pembangunan) objects to a verdict punishing Maisuri for refusing a forced customary marriage and demands abolition of feudal remnan

GA-02291 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Dari Putri Priayi ke Aktivis Bawah Tanah (Bagaimana Umi Sardjono menjadi aktivis perempuan)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: From priyayi daughter to underground activist (how Umi Sardjono became an activist)

Tempo biographical feature (2 Oct 2021, Isma Savitri and Nurdin Kalim) on Umi Sardjono's early life: born Suharti Sumodiwirjo in Salatiga, 24 Dec 1923, inspired by Kartini, joined Parindra then Gerindo, worked as an underground courier in East Java, tortured by the Japanese in 1943 alongside S.K. Trimurti, married Suki

GA-02292 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Gerwani, Sukarno, dan Poligami (Gerwani dan dilema semangat persaudaraan)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Gerwani, Sukarno and polygamy (Gerwani and the dilemma of brotherhood)

Tempo essay (2 Oct 2021) by I Gusti Agung Ayu Ratih on why Gerwani did not criticise Sukarno's polygamy. It recounts Kowani expelling Gerwani on 29 Oct 1965 and removing Hurustiati Subandrio in 1966, the erasure of Gerwani from women's movement history, Perwari rivalry, Gerwani members' reverence for Sukarno, and anti-

GA-02293 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Melempem di Depan Si Bung (Mengapa Gerwani tak mengkritik poligami Sukarno)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Limp before Bung Karno (why Gerwani did not criticise Sukarno's polygamy)

Tempo piece (2 Oct 2021, Hussein Abri and Stefanus Pramono) on why Gerwani, loudly anti-polygamy, stayed silent when Sukarno married Hartini. Umi Sardjono told Ruth Indiah Rahayu it was a private matter and Gerwani still needed Sukarno against imperialism (Harian Rakjat, 4 Jan 1956); Perwari backed Fatmawati; Amurwani

GA-02295 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Perempuan Dogmatis di Dua Dewan (Kiprah Umi Sardjono di DPR)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: A dogmatic woman in two councils (Umi Sardjono in parliament)

Tempo feature (2 Oct 2021, Hussein Abri and Stefanus Pramono) on Umi Sardjono's legislative career: Konstituante (1955) and DPR-GR (1959-65). She pushed immigration reform (no spousal permission), a marriage law banning polygamy with minimum age 21 (opposed by Aisyiyah, Muslimat NU), the 1960 agrarian law for women far