Front page of Literaturnaia Gazeta, 10 June 1952, carrying a World Peace Council Bureau statement defending the French peace movement. Signatories include 'Mrs. Suwarti (Indonesia), member of parliament' (Gerwis/Gerwani leader Suwarti), alongside Joliot-Curie, Eugenie Cotton (WIDF), Brecht and Neruda. Also notes the Pe
Izvestiia, 11 Jun 1953, p. 3. TASS and correspondent reports from the Copenhagen World Congress of Women. Indonesian women's moment: a Dutch delegate greeted Indonesian women, and Mrs Van Staveren, whose son refused to fight in Indonesia and was jailed for seven years, handed his portrait to Indonesian delegate Surasto
Izvestiia, 11 Apr 1954. TASS, citing Harian Rakyat: when a Soviet women's delegation led by A. Kholopova reached Surakarta (Solo), thousands of Gerwani members, students and housewives met it in a demonstration of friendship; the delegation received dozens of invitations in Surakarta and Yogyakarta.
Pravda, 4 July 1955 (selected pages 1, 3, 4). Page 3: WIDF deputy secretary Z. Ivanova on preparations for the World Congress of Mothers (Lausanne, 7-10 July); says WIDF established cooperation in Indonesia with 'the numerous women's organization Gerwani' and the plantation workers' union, and that Indonesia's committe
Keyword-hit excerpt of Pravda, 4 July 1955, from the article on preparing the World Congress of Mothers (Lausanne). Records that WIDF organisations established cooperation in Indonesia with 'the numerous women's organization Gerwani' and the plantation workers' union, alongside links in Australia, New Zealand, Norway,
Keyword-hit excerpt of Pravda, No. 67, c. 8 March 1957, International Women's Day statements. Includes Cai Chang on Chinese women and a signed text by T. Sulami, member of Indonesia's national March 8 Committee: women's role in the 1954 [sic, 1955] elections (16 women MPs, 33 Konstituante members), 20-fold growth in sc
Page 4 of Pravda (8 March 1957), International Women's Day, carrying a statement signed 'T. Sulami, member of the national 8 March Committee of the Republic of Indonesia'. She describes Indonesian women's life and struggle, sixteen women elected to parliament and 33 to the Constituent Assembly, rising schooling, anti-c
Pravda, 16/18 June 1957 (No. 167), only p. 5 supplied (machine-translated): a poem 'Merdeka' on Indonesian independence and a short TASS item on the creation of Indonesia's National Council under Sukarno (Roeslan Abdulgani as deputy chair). The supplied pages do not contain the WIDF or Sardjono speech named in the cata
Keyword-hit excerpt of Pravda, No. 167, 16 June 1957, special-correspondent report from Colombo on the sixth day of the World Peace Council session. Mme (Umi) Sardjono speaks for the WIDF, voicing 'on behalf of the women and mothers of the whole world' protest against plans to unleash imperialist war. Other speakers in
Dolgozó Nő, 1 Feb 1958. Article on West Irian and the Netherlands, presenting Dutch rule as colonial exploitation of a resource-rich territory that is part of Indonesia; it states Gerwani is highly active in the campaign to regain West Irian, supported by Asian and African women's groups and all 80 member federations o
Dolgozó Nő, 1 Feb 1959, 'WIDF News' column. Indonesia items: parliament unanimously approved the bill on women's political rights, and Gerwani, in the name of its 650,000 members, protested to South Africa over 1,100 women imprisoned in Johannesburg. Other items concern Berlin, Latin America and Czechoslovakia.
Somogyi Neplap (Hungary), 6 Oct 1961, p. 1: report on the WIDF Council meeting in Budapest. Mrs Mudigdio, chair of Gerwani, said liberation of oppressed Asian and African peoples is hindered by the same forces opposing a German peace treaty. Also local Kaposvar preparations for the WIDF delegates. Other items unrelated
Hungarian provincial daily Tolna Megyei Népújság, 6 Oct 1961, reporting the WIDF Council session in Budapest. Mrs Mudigdio, chair of Gerwani, is quoted saying that the liberation of oppressed Asian and African peoples is hindered by the same forces opposing a German peace treaty. Other delegates (Kushida, Cotton, Popov
Scinteia (Bucharest), 15 June 1962 (No. 5560): report on the opening of Romania's National Conference of Women, with Gheorghiu-Dej's speech and Maria Rosetti's report. The list of foreign guests includes the Indonesian women's delegation led by Umi Sardjono, 'president of the women's organisation Gerwani', alongside WI
Front page of Scinteia (Bucharest), 16 Jun 1962, with report on the Romanian National Conference of Women. Names Umi Sardjono, chair of Gerwani, among foreign guests who spoke, alongside delegates from France, GDR, Japan, Poland, Ghana, Hungary and Sudan. The issue says speeches appear on p. 2, but her text is not in t
Scinteia (Bucharest), 16 Jun 1962, text capture of the National Conference of Women proceedings. Lists Umi Sardjono, chair of Gerwani, among foreign speakers (France, GDR, Japan, Poland, Ghana, Hungary, Mali, Yugoslavia, Italy, Vietnam, Korea, Austria). Her own speech is not reproduced. Page 2 greetings from WIDF's Mar
Scinteia (Romanian Workers' Party organ), issue no. 5562, 17 June 1962, with a Claude machine translation of its coverage of the closing of Romania's National Conference of Women. Page 5 prints the greeting of Umi Sardjono, chair of Gerwani, who praises socialist women's achievements, presents Gerwani as fighting for t
Pravda no. 182, 1 July 1963 (full issue). Page 4 prints the WIDF programme adopted at its Moscow congress (29 June 1963): equal rights, peasant women, children, peace, national independence, solidarity with persecuted women. It lists the new Bureau, which includes Umi Sardjono (Indonesia, spelled 'Umisa Sardjono'). Eug
Pravda no. 182, 1 July 1963 (excerpt). Prints the WIDF programme adopted at its Moscow congress (29 June 1963): equal rights, peasant women, children, peace, national independence, solidarity with persecuted women. Lists new Bureau members, including Umi Sardjono (Indonesia, spelled 'Umisa Sardjono').
Hungarian daily Délmagyarország (Szeged), 26 Jun 1963, MTI report on the Tuesday session of the World Congress of Women in the Kremlin, opened by Umi Sardjono for Gerwani; speeches by Cuban, Ceylonese, Cypriot, Moroccan and Cameroonian delegates, greetings from Sukarno and Bernal. Other page articles (space flight, har
Heves Megyei Népújság (Eger), 26 Jun 1963: report on the Tuesday session of the World Congress of Women in the Kremlin, opened by Umi Sardjono of Gerwani; Cuban report on children's health and education, greetings from Bandaranaike, Sukarno and Bernal, and speeches by Angolan delegate and the widow of executed Iraqi co