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GA-00845 1953-04-29 De Waarheid rel A

Vrouwen stellen eisen aan regering

Women make demands on the government: Gerwis resolutions to Prime Minister Wilopo

De Waarheid, 29 Apr 1953, p. 6: short Jakarta dispatch (20 April) that Gerwis handed to Prime Minister Wilopo the resolutions from its recent conference: price controls, independent trade policy, firm action against security threats, and condemnation of attempts to drive peasants off their land in North Sumatra.

GA-00847 1953-05-06 De Waarheid rel A

Vooruitgang vrouwenbeweging op Oost-Java

Progress of the women's movement in East Java: Gerwis growth figures

De Waarheid, 6 May 1953, p. 5: dispatch citing two Gerwis women, Su... and Warinah, on the growth of Gerwis in East Java: districts up from 19 (early 1952) to 37, 120 branches plus 50 forming, 7,016 members, mainly women workers, peasants and self-employed. Illiteracy is the main obstacle, countered by courses attended

GA-00870 1954-05-12 De Waarheid rel A

Op de plantages (Rie Lips vertelt over Indonesië)

On the plantations: Rie Lips tells about Indonesia

De Waarheid, 12 May 1954, p. 5: Rie Lips's account of her Java trip: plantation workers' wages (about 3 rupiah per day), child labour on tea and rubber estates, and volunteer village schools. Quotes the Gerwani congress appeal that those who can read should teach others; Soviet delegate Alexandra Kolopowa speaks; photo

GA-02776 1958 rel A licensed

Geeta Mukherjee, 'About the Movement of Indonesian Women' (lampiran surat edaran WIDF, 21 April 1958)

Geeta Mukherjee, 'About the Movement of Indonesian Women' (WIDF Circular Attachment, 21 April 1958)

Report by Indian MP Geeta Mukherjee on Gerwani, attached to a WIDF circular of 21 April 1958, based on talks with her neighbour Suwarti Bintang Suradi, WIDF Secretariat member and Gerwani organisation chair. It covers Gerwis's 1950 origin and renaming, the Third Congress, membership growth (to 460,000 by August 1957),