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GA-02837 1955 WIDF rel B licensed

Women Write to Us (WIDF, 1955): Indonesia after the World Congress of Mothers

WIDF magazine 'Women Write to Us' (1955), country letters after the World Congress of Mothers (Lausanne): Bulgaria, Argentina, France, India floods, and Indonesia. The Indonesia item reports delegate Mme Suryadarma's warm airport welcome, press and radio coverage of her Congress speech, and the Indonesian Women's Movem

GA-02847 1958 WIDF rel A licensed

Indonesia: Women's struggle against foreign intervention (WIDF, 1958)

1958 WIDF note: Indonesian women write that the country faces rebellion backed by SEATO and the US (the PRRI/Permesta crisis), and that women join the struggle shoulder to shoulder with men. Gerwani sets up public kitchens, collects food and magazines for the front, runs first aid; in rebel-held West Sumatra its leader