Gerwani Archive
Researcher log in
Sort: oldest first · newest first · export CSV
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-01647 1951-08-15 Merdeka rel A

Merdeka, 15 Agustus 1951

Merdeka, 15 August 1951: Gerwis central board resolutions

Merdeka, 15 Agustus 1951 (hlm. 2): Antara report on Gerwis central board resolutions: gifts for victims of the revolution and colonial wars including those of the 'September 1948 affair', and an education programme of rebuilt schools and village people's schools.

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-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-02170 1955-03-09 Suara Kalimantan rel A

Suara Kalimantan, 9 Maret 1955, hlm. 3: 'Hari Wanita Internasional'

Suara Kalimantan, 9 Mar 1955: 'International Women's Day'

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.

GA-02203 1957-01-21 Surabaya Post rel B

Surabaya Post, 21 Januari 1957, hlm. 2: ceramah Sujoso tentang kunjungan ke Moskow

Surabaya Post, 21 January 1957, p. 2: Sujoso's lecture on a visit to Moscow

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.

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-00012 1959 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 1 Th. 1, Juni 1959

Api Kartini No. 1, Year 1, June 1959

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.

GA-00013 1959 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 2 Th. 1, 1959

Api Kartini No. 2, Year 1, 1959

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.

GA-00015 1959 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 4 Th. 1, 1959

Api Kartini No. 4, Year 1, 1959

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.

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-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-00019 1960 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 1 Th. 2, Januari 1960

Api Kartini No. 1, Year 2, January 1960

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.

GA-00023 1960 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 3 Th. 2, Maret 1960

Api Kartini No. 3, Year 2, March 1960

March 1960 issue devoted to the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day and the Copenhagen International Women's Congress (21–24 April 1960); interviews with delegation figures Arudji Kartawinata, Ratu Aminah Hidajat and Hurustiati Subandrio.

GA-00024 1960 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 4 Th. 2, April 1960

Api Kartini No. 4, Year 2, April 1960

April 1960 issue on Hari Kartini and the fifth anniversary of the Bandung Conference. Kartini as writer and painter, her translations, and a historical essay on the women's movement from Kartini to the 1928 congress and after.

GA-00025 1960 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 5 Th. 2, Mei 1960

Api Kartini No. 5, Year 2, May 1960

May 1960 issue on women workers: wage discrimination, absent childcare and maternity protection, and non-enforcement of ILO Convention 100. Also a piece on Christina Martha Tiahahu and a short story about a cigarette-factory worker.

GA-00026 1960 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 6 Th. 2, Juni 1960

Api Kartini No. 6, Year 2, June 1960

June 1960 issue marking the magazine's first anniversary, Gerwani's tenth anniversary exhibition and World Children's Day. Profile of Kartini's son Singgih Soesalit and Sukarno's return and inauguration of DPR-GR.

GA-00028 1960 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 8 Th. 2, Agustus 1960

Api Kartini No. 8, Year 2, August 1960

August 1960 issue for the 15th anniversary of independence: Sukarno's address to DPR-GR, a profile of Ceylon PM Sirimavo Bandaranaike with her letter of thanks to Gerwani, and a satire on state-enterprise corruption.

GA-00029 1960 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 9 Th. 2, September 1960 (probable)

Api Kartini No. 9, Year 2, September 1960 (probable)

Probably September 1960 issue, focused on peasant women: a poem, an essay linking Kartini to an upcoming Gerwani seminar on peasant women (case of landless widow Mak Ni), a Batak ethnographic feature and the Rome Olympics.

GA-00144 1960 rel A

Hak-hak Politik Wanita, 1960

Women's Political Rights, 1960 (PKI Women's Department)

Brochure from the PKI Central Committee Women's Department (Feb 1960) for International Women's Day's 50th anniversary: Mudigdio's parliamentary speech, Law 68/1958 ratifying the UN Convention on Women's Political Rights, and PKI positions in the Konstituante.

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-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.