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8 itemsOrganisation: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis) ✕Place: Semarang ✕File access: check rights ✕
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GA-00006 1951 rel A

Pedoman Bekerdja Gerwis, c. 1951

Gerwis Working Handbook, c. 1951

Founding handbook of Gerwis issued after the June 1950 Semarang fusion of six women's organisations: statutes, a catechism-style commentary, bylaws, an organising manual and a field guide for work among women workers, peasants, traders and workers' wives. Frames women's interest in anticolonial struggle.

GA-01644 1951-04-10 Merdeka rel A

Merdeka, 10 April 1951, hlm. 2: Gerwis dukung program bersama 14 partai

Merdeka, 10 April 1951: Gerwis supports the 14-party joint programme

Merdeka, 10 Apr 1951, p. 2: Antara from Semarang that the Gerwis central board (6 Apr 1951) endorses the 14-party joint programme (annul KMB, independent foreign policy, revoke SOB) and demands a broad national coalition cabinet.

GA-00166 1951-06-09 Abadi rel A

Abadi, 9 Juni 1951, hlm. 2: Gerwis bukan organisasi politik

Abadi, 9 June 1951, p. 2: Gerwis Is Not a Political Organisation

Abadi, 9 June 1951, p. 2: Antara report of S.K. Trimurti, as Gerwis chair, at its first-anniversary event in Semarang: Gerwis is a mass organisation among women, not political; calls to end corruption and division.

GA-01589 2015-02-02 Batam Pos rel A

Batam Pos, 2 Februari 2015: 'Kamus Dunia: Gerwani'

Batam Pos, 2 February 2015: 'World Dictionary: Gerwani'

Batam Pos, 2 Feb 2015, p. 2: reference box 'Gerwani' (from Kamus Sejarah Lengkap) defining Gerwani as a PKI-affiliated women's organisation, recounting Gerwis's founding at Semarang on 4 June 1950 from six groups, with an archival photo of a marriage-law rally.

GA-02875 2022 rel A

Gerwani Mazhab Politik Islam Era Soekarno (Rahmanudin, 2022)

Gerwani as a political school of Islam in the Sukarno era (Rahmanudin, 2022)

Deden Rahmanudin, 'Gerwani Mazhab Politik Islam Era Soekarno' (Jurnal Kewarganegaraan 6:2, 2022), a literature-based article presenting Gerwani as a feminist movement and discussing it from an Islamic viewpoint (Sukarno's Sarinah, Hamka). Drawing on Wieringa and Lestariningsih, it recounts Gerwani's 1950 founding, MPs

GA-02859 2025 rel A

Transformasi Gerwani: Keterlibatan dalam Perjuangan Gender hingga Stigmatisasi Pasca 1965 (Aisyah, 2025)

Transformation of Gerwani: gender struggle to post-1965 stigmatisation (Aisyah, 2025)

Rania Dhiyaulhaq Aisyah, 'Transformasi Gerwani' (Jurnal Sejarah Indonesia 8:2, 2025), a literature-based article on Gerwani's pre-1965 gender activism (education, health, anti-polygamy, 1955 elections, PKI ties, congresses) and its post-1965 stigmatisation. It repeats Wieringa's finding that the Lubang Buaya sexual-vio