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GA-01641 1951-03-19 Merdeka rel A

Merdeka, 19 Maret 1951, hlm. 2: 'Gerakan Wanita' (S.K. Trimurti)

Merdeka, 19 March 1951: 'Gerakan Wanita' (S.K. Trimurti)

Merdeka, 19 Mar 1951, p. 2: S.K. Trimurti of the Gerwis central board says Gerwis will focus on village councils over parliamentary seats, on doctors, midwives and marriage issues, and denies Gerwis is a PKI onderbouw.

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-00014 1959 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 3 Th. 1, Agustus 1959

Api Kartini No. 3, Year 1, August 1959

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.

GA-00148 1959 rel C

Ichtisar Chronologis Kedudukan Wanita dalam Perkawinan, 1959

Chronological Survey of Women's Position in Marriage, 1959 (Kowani Legal Commission)

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.

GA-00027 1960 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 7 Th. 2, Juli 1960

Api Kartini No. 7, Year 2, July 1960

July 1960 issue centred on the new DPR-GR, with interviews with women members on economic hardship, marriage law reform and land reform; Kartini's letters, fiction, children's education and international solidarity statements.

GA-00160 1960 rel B

Undang-undang Perkawinan, 1960

The Marriage Law, 1960 (PKI Women's Department)

PKI Women's Department brochure (March 1960) comparing the PKI fraction's 1957 marriage-law draft with the PNI initiative bill of Soemari clause by clause (monogamy, consent, age, registration), with Suharti's article.

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-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-02726 2002 rel A

Kebenaran tentang Gerwani: Aspek Gender Rezim Suharto (Seri Kartini 03/2002)

Truth about Gerwani: The Gender Aspect of the Suharto Regime (Seri Kartini 03/2002)

2002 Seri Kartini booklet bundling W.F. Wertheim's review of Saskia Wieringa's Gerwani dissertation (Gerwani's puritan sexual politics, army fabrication of Lubang Buaya), a DPP Gerwani statement of 4 June 1962, Sulami's preface and poem, and a memoir of 1945. Survivors' reissue of key Gerwani texts.

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-01589 2015-02-02 Batam Pos rel A

Batam Pos, 2 Februari 2015: 'Kamus Dunia: Gerwani'

Batam Pos, 2 February 2015: 'World Dictionary: Gerwani'

Batam Pos, 2 Feb 2015, p. 2: reference box 'Gerwani' (from Kamus Sejarah Lengkap) defining Gerwani as a PKI-affiliated women's organisation, recounting Gerwis's founding at Semarang on 4 June 1950 from six groups, with an archival photo of a marriage-law rally.