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GA-01648 1951-09-04 Merdeka rel A

Merdeka, 4 September 1951

Merdeka, 4 September 1951: Trimurti surveys the women's movements

Merdeka, 4 September 1951 (hlm. 2): 'Trimurti tindjau gerakan2 wanita': Gerwis vice-chair S.K. Trimurti, touring Sumatra since 27 July 1951 with her secretary, criticises urban women's organisations in Medan as weak and ceremonial.

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-00005 1954 rel A

Kenang-kenangan Kongres Gerwis ke-2, 25–31 Maret 1954

Commemorative Volume of the Second Gerwis Congress, 25-31 March 1954

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.

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-02204 1957-02-15 Surabaya Post rel A

Surabaya Post, 15 Februari 1957, hlm. 2: panitia Hari Wanita Internasional Surabaya

Surabaya Post, 15 February 1957, p. 2: Surabaya International Women's Day committee

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.

GA-00146 1959 rel A

Buku Peringatan 30 Tahun Kesatuan Pergerakan Wanita Indonesia 1928–1958

Commemorative Book for 30 Years of the Indonesian Women's Movement Unity, 1928-1958

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.

GA-00001 1961 rel A

Peraturan Dasar Gerwani (Kongres IV), 1961

Gerwani Statutes (Fourth Congress), 1961

Gerwani statute booklet ratified at the Fourth National Congress, Jakarta, 14–17 December 1961. Includes a congress address on revisions, the Mukadimah (preamble) and 49 articles covering structure, membership and a Foreign Section; affiliates Gerwani with the WIDF and recounts the 1954 break with Gerwis.

GA-00002 1961 rel A

Program Gerwani (Kongres IV), 1961

Gerwani Programme (Fourth Congress), 1961

DPP Gerwani booklet with the 33-point Program Perdjuangan ratified at the Fourth Congress (Jakarta, December 1961), revising the 1957 Solo program. Keeps demands for women village heads, a democratic marriage law and price control; claims over one million members and sets three slogans.

GA-00004 1961 rel A

Seminar Nasional Wanita Tani, 17–20 Januari 1961

National Seminar of Women Peasants, 17-20 January 1961

Gerwani DPP brochure of the first National Seminar of Women Peasants (Jakarta, 17–20 January 1961), with the DPP working paper, a BTI paper, speeches by officials and D.N. Aidit, regional delegate reports and resolutions. Centres poor and landless women in Gerwani's class analysis of the village.

GA-00032 1961 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 12 Th. 3, Desember 1961

Api Kartini No. 12, Year 3, December 1961

December 1961 issue on West Irian and Gerwani's Fourth Congress (Jakarta, 14–17 Dec 1961): Hari Ibu rally at Istana with Sukarno's Trikora speech and foreign guests Gloria Garton (Australia, WIDF) and Dzhara Ilkhamowa (Uzbekistan).

GA-00033 1961 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 2 Th. 3, Februari 1961

Api Kartini No. 2, Year 3, February 1961

February 1961 issue tied to Sukarno's speech at the Indonesian Women's Congress (6 Feb 1961); a cluster of pieces mourning the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, with editorial calls for land reform and socialist society.

GA-00039 1962-01 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 1 Th. 4, Januari 1962

Api Kartini No. 1, Year 4, January 1962

January 1962 issue opening with a report on Gerwani's Fourth Congress (Dec 1961; 400 delegates), where Sukarno urged it to stay a revolutionary mass movement not a 'ladies movement'; WIDF foreign guests, Mudigdio, Sulami and Sudjinah appear.

GA-00045 1963 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 1 Th. 5, Januari 1963

Api Kartini No. 1, Year 5, January 1963

January 1963 issue opening with a report on the DPP Gerwani plenum (Jakarta, 6–10 Jan 1963) where Umi Sardjono addressed the international situation and the plenum endorsed the coming WIDF World Congress.

GA-00010 1964 rel A

Maju Terus untuk Pengintegrasian Total Gerwani dengan Wanita Buruh Tani dan Tani Miskin (Laporan Umum Umi Sardjono, 1964)

Forward to Total Integration of Gerwani with Farm-Labourer and Poor Peasant Women (Umi Sardjono's General Report, 1964)

Umi Sardjono's General Report as DPP Gerwani chair to the 3rd DPP Plenary (Bandung, early 1964; transcribed by Nathanael Pribady). Reviews 1963: Irian Barat, 'Crush Malaysia' confrontation, the 26 May economic regulations, 1,378 TK Melati kindergartens, the WIDF Moscow Congress (Gerwani rejected the programme, attacked

GA-00051 1964 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 11–12 Th. 6, November–Desember 1964

Api Kartini No. 11-12, Year 6, November-December 1964

Double issue (Nov–Dec 1964) centred on the DPP Gerwani National Seminar on Housewives, 4–6 Nov 1964 (20 of 23 provinces), classifying housewives by class and consciousness, with addresses by Subandrio, Hurustiati Subandrio and Rukiah Kertapati.

GA-00052 1964 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 9 Th. 6, September 1964

Api Kartini No. 9, Year 6, September 1964

September 1964 issue built on Sukarno's 17 August 1964 TAVIP speech, Dwikora mobilisation, the 10th Kowani (KWI) congress, Sulami on peasant women and land reform, a West Irian travelogue and Kartinah on a Chinese people's commune.

GA-00139 1965 rel A

Konperensi Afrika-Asia Kedua Harus Tetap Konperensi Anti Imperialisme: Pidato Sukarno pada HUT ke-15 Gerwani, 8 Juni 1965

The Second Afro-Asian Conference Must Remain Anti-Imperialist: Sukarno at Gerwani's 15th Anniversary, 8 June 1965

Ministry of Information pamphlet of Sukarno's speech at Gerwani's 15th anniversary rally, Istora Bung Karno, 8 June 1965 (25,000 copies). He appears 'together with Gerwani', endorses Subandrio on Gerwani's leadership of women, and stresses an anti-imperialist Second Afro-Asian Conference.

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.