Farewell visit to departing overseas Chinese by Indonesian people's organisations (Renmin Ribao, 7 March 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 7 Mar 1960, p. 6 (Xinhua, Jakarta): representatives of the Indonesia-China Friendship Association, Gerwani and the Indonesian Mothers' Committee against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs visit West Java Chinese gathered in Jakarta to return to China, bringing coffee, tea, medicine and soap; women hug Chinese wome
Farewell visit to departing overseas Chinese by Indonesian people's organisations (Renmin Ribao, 7 March 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 7 Mar 1960, p. 6 (Xinhua, Jakarta): representatives of the Indonesia-China Friendship Association, Gerwani and the Indonesian Mothers' Committee against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs visit West Java Chinese gathered in Jakarta to return to China, bringing coffee, tea, medicine and soap; women hug Chinese wome
Surabaya friendship association chairman visits Chinese about to return home (Renmin Ribao, 5 April 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 5 Apr 1960, p. 6 (Xinhua, Jakarta): the chairman of the Surabaya Indonesia-China Friendship Association visits over two hundred Chinese from Malang, Kediri, Tulungagung and Blitar sheltered in Surabaya before they sail home on 1 April after the retail-trade ban. Surabaya Gerwani also sent people to presen
Surabaya friendship association chairman visits Chinese about to return home (Renmin Ribao, 5 April 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 5 Apr 1960, p. 6 (Xinhua, Jakarta): the chairman of the Surabaya Indonesia-China Friendship Association visits over two hundred Chinese from Malang, Kediri, Tulungagung and Blitar sheltered in Surabaya before they sail home on 1 April after the retail-trade ban. Surabaya Gerwani also sent people to presen
Seizure of Shell capital in Indonesia demanded
Short Eindhovensch Dagblad AP item (17 May 1960, p.4): two communist-led organisations urged Jakarta to seize Dutch capital in Shell. The oil workers' union Perboem backs nationalisation, and the PKI-affiliated women's organisation Gerwani presses for seizure of Dutch capital 'still hidden' in mixed enterprises.
Friendship association and other groups see off returning overseas Chinese (Renmin Ribao, 19 June 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 19 Jun 1960, p. 6 (Xinhua, Jakarta): representatives of the Indonesia-China Friendship Association, the Peace Committee and Gerwani see off East and West Java Chinese leaving on Chinese ships. Peace Committee chair Mrs Arudji (PSII) and Gerwani leader Mrs Mandaki speak of lasting friendship; returnees say
Friendship association and other groups see off returning overseas Chinese (Renmin Ribao, 19 June 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 19 Jun 1960, p. 6 (Xinhua, Jakarta): representatives of the Indonesia-China Friendship Association, the Peace Committee and Gerwani see off East and West Java Chinese leaving on Chinese ships. Peace Committee chair Mrs Arudji (PSII) and Gerwani leader Mrs Mandaki speak of lasting friendship; returnees say
Over ten thousand overseas Chinese hold memorial meeting in Cimahi (Renmin Ribao, 15 July 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 15 Jul 1960, p. 5 (Xinhua, Jakarta): over 15,000 ethnic Chinese hold a memorial in Cimahi, West Java, for Ye Jinniang and Yang Mumei, killed 3 July by West Java military during forced removals. Gerwani's Central Council and its Jakarta, Bandung, West and East Java and Cimahi branches sent representatives.
Over ten thousand overseas Chinese hold memorial meeting in Cimahi (Renmin Ribao, 15 July 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 15 Jul 1960, p. 5 (Xinhua, Jakarta): over 15,000 ethnic Chinese hold a memorial in Cimahi, West Java, for Ye Jinniang and Yang Mumei, killed 3 July by West Java military during forced removals. Gerwani's Central Council and its Jakarta, Bandung, West and East Java and Cimahi branches sent representatives.
Ashes of Yang Mumei and Ye Jinniang shipped home (Renmin Ribao, 21 July 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 21 Jul 1960, p. 5 (Xinhua, Jakarta): ceremony at Tanjung Priok on 18 July sending home the ashes of Yang Mumei and Ye Jinniang, ethnic Chinese women killed in West Java, with their families and 700 poor or displaced Chinese (Presidential Decree No. 10). Gerwani, SOBSI, BTI, Baperki's women's department an
Ashes of Yang Mumei and Ye Jinniang shipped home (Renmin Ribao, 21 July 1960)
Renmin Ribao, 21 Jul 1960, p. 5 (Xinhua, Jakarta): ceremony at Tanjung Priok on 18 July sending home the ashes of Yang Mumei and Ye Jinniang, ethnic Chinese women killed in West Java, with their families and 700 poor or displaced Chinese (Presidential Decree No. 10). Gerwani, SOBSI, BTI, Baperki's women's department an
Weekly Situation Reports on Indonesian Politics, September 1960
Compilation of Djakarta embassy weekly situation telegrams to the State Department, September 1960, on the army-Sukarno struggle over the PKI ban and a temporary ban on party activity. Gerwani is mentioned only in passing among PKI front organisations (with SOBSI, BTI) protesting bans.
Api Kartini No. 1, Year 3, January 1961
January 1961 issue with a report on the First Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo (14–23 Jan 1961) and Iwanah Prijono's speech, plus East German textiles, Cuban women fighters and household columns.
Api Kartini No. 11, Year 3, November 1961
November 1961 issue: a report on torture of women political prisoners in South Vietnam, a Heroes Day essay linking Indonesia to Algeria, Angola, Congo and Cuba, and peace letters between Ratu Aminah Hidajat and Nina Popova.
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).
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.
Api Kartini No. 3, Year 3, March 1961
March 1961 issue for International Women's Day: Sudjinah on the Algerian war and WIDF solidarity, Sugiarti Siswadi's open letter to Pauline Lumumba, and features on revolutionary couples (Lumumbas, Fuciks, Rosenbergs).
Api Kartini No. 4-5, Year 3, April-May 1961
Double issue (Apr–May 1961, 40 pp.) for Kartini Day and Education Day, dense with transnational content including a visiting Chinese cultural mission and embassy commemorations in Cairo, Rome, Moscow and New York.
Api Kartini No. 6, Year 3, June 1961
June 1961 issue (second anniversary, 5000 copies): Indian women honouring Rameshwari Nehru's Lenin Peace Prize, a profile of WIDF magazine Women of the Whole World and its Afro-Asian congress coverage.
Api Kartini No. 7, Year 3, July 1961
July 1961 issue: interview on National Children's Week and education budget, Central Kalimantan customary law refuting colonial stereotypes, Sukarno's Manifesto against rock and roll, and French WIDF-affiliated women's press.
Api Kartini No. 8, Year 3, August 1961
August 1961 issue for the 16th independence anniversary: slogan against feudalism and imperialism, Sukarno's Hari Ibu speech that women need socialism, praise of Soviet women doctors and China's communes, Moscow Film Festival.
Pravda, 18 Dec 1961: Fourth Gerwani Congress
Pravda no. 353, 18 December 1961 (full issue). Page 3 has a dispatch by correspondent O. Skalkin from Jakarta on the Fourth Gerwani Congress: 400 delegates from Java, Moluccas, Sumatra, Bali, Kalimantan; Sukarno's speech condemning anti-communism, backing NASAKOM and the West Irian claim, and praising Soviet support. N
Pravda, 18 Dec 1961: Fourth Gerwani Congress (excerpt)
Pravda no. 353, 18 December 1961 (excerpt of the page). Page 3 has a dispatch by correspondent O. Skalkin from Jakarta on the Fourth Gerwani Congress: 400 delegates from Java, Moluccas, Sumatra, Bali, Kalimantan; Sukarno's speech condemning anti-communism, backing NASAKOM and the West Irian claim, and praising Soviet s
Communism and the PKI, Despatch of January 1961
US embassy Djakarta despatch compilation (Jan 1961) analysing communism and the PKI, including its front organisations. The overview describes Gerwani as the communist women's organisation used for price and anti-bomb demonstrations, affiliated with the WIDF (which funds trips abroad for prominent members), and contras
Chen Yi arrives in Jakarta bringing the Chinese people's friendly wishes (Renmin Ribao, 29 March 1961)
Renmin Ribao, 29 Mar 1961, p. 1 (Xinhua, Jakarta): Chen Yi arrives in Jakarta on a friendship visit and is met by Subandrio, Henk Ngantung, PKI's Njono and heads of mass organisations including the Indonesia-China Friendship Association and Gerwani, with crowds and banners; Sukarno receives him at Merdeka Palace. Gerwa
Chen Yi arrives in Jakarta bringing the Chinese people's friendly wishes (Renmin Ribao, 29 March 1961)
Renmin Ribao, 29 Mar 1961, p. 1 (Xinhua, Jakarta): Chen Yi arrives in Jakarta on a friendship visit and is met by Subandrio, Henk Ngantung, PKI's Njono and heads of mass organisations including the Indonesia-China Friendship Association and Gerwani, with crowds and banners; Sukarno receives him at Merdeka Palace. Gerwa
The bridge of Chinese-Indonesian friendship will be further strengthened (Renmin Ribao, 1 April 1961)
Renmin Ribao, 1 Apr 1961, p. 5 (Xinhua, Jakarta): Jakarta press coverage of Chen Yi's visit, and over a hundred representatives of the Friendship Association, SOBSI, BTI, Pemuda Rakjat and Gerwani presenting gifts (handicrafts, batik, Indonesian translations of Mao and Liu Shaoqi) to Chen Yi, with Sain Nasution speakin
The bridge of Chinese-Indonesian friendship will be further strengthened (Renmin Ribao, 1 April 1961)
Renmin Ribao, 1 Apr 1961, p. 5 (Xinhua, Jakarta): Jakarta press coverage of Chen Yi's visit, and over a hundred representatives of the Friendship Association, SOBSI, BTI, Pemuda Rakjat and Gerwani presenting gifts (handicrafts, batik, Indonesian translations of Mao and Liu Shaoqi) to Chen Yi, with Sain Nasution speakin
Dr Subandrio: 'No other way than force' (at the Gerwani conference)
Het Rotterdamsch Parool item (18 Dec 1961, p.2): at a conference of the 'nationalist' women's organisation Gerwani, Foreign Minister Subandrio says Indonesia would have to take military action if the Netherlands tries to give independence to Western New Guinea, calling it forced military confrontation, and that Sukarno
Peking Review no. 52, 29 December 1961: Chinese women's delegation greets Fourth Gerwani Congress
Peking Review no. 52 (29 Dec 1961), weekly Chinese state magazine. Gerwani appears only in a short 'China and the World' item (p. 20): Kuo Chien, head of the Chinese women's delegation to Gerwani's Fourth National Congress (Djakarta, 14-17 Dec), sent greetings backing Indonesian women's struggle for West Irian. The iss