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GA-02620 1952-05-30 rel A licensed

Analysis of Communist propaganda in Indonesia (OIR 5714.7, 1952)

Analysis of Communist Propaganda in Indonesia (OIR 5714.7, 1952)

OSS/State Department report OIR 5714.7 (30 May 1952) analysing PKI propaganda: party structure, front organisations, relations with international communism and themes. Names Gerwis under Mrs Mudigdo as the communist vehicle competing with Kowani for women, and BTI under S. Sardjono; appendices cover publishing, films,

GA-02793 1958 rel A licensed

IVth Congress of the Women's International Democratic Federation, Vienna, 1-5 June 1958

IVth Congress of the Women's International Democratic Federation, Vienna, June 1958

WIDF volume on the IVth Congress, Vienna, 1-5 June 1958: speeches, reports and resolutions. Gerwani appears directly: Mudigdio, vice-president of Gerwani and head of the Indonesian delegation, speaks (pp. 89-92) for 663,740 members, citing equal-pay claims, the Third Gerwani Congress (December 1957), West Irian, work w

GA-02625 1960-07 rel A licensed

Biographic Data on Members of the Gotong Rojong Parliament (US Embassy Djakarta despatch, July 1960)

Biographic Data on Members of the Gotong Royong Parliament (US Embassy despatch, July 1960)

US State Department Central Files despatch from Embassy Djakarta (July 1960, chargé Rolland Buchner): biographic data, with alphabetical index, on about 110 former members of parliament appointed to the Gotong Royong parliament, grouped by party. Biographies of women MPs include Gerwani figures. Mrs Mudigdio (Gerwis/Ge

GA-02632 1961-10 rel A licensed

US Embassy reports on women's organizations in Indonesia and friendship-society regulation, Oct 1961

US Embassy Reports on Women's Organizations and Friendship-Society Regulation, Oct 1961

US Embassy Djakarta despatches, Oct 1961: transmittal of the July 1961 war-administrator regulation on international friendship societies, and the report 'Role of Women in Indonesia: Women's Organizations' with a memorandum of conversation with Maria Ulfah Santoso (8 March 1961) and biographic notes. It describes Gerwa

GA-01934 1964-07-24 Renmin Ribao rel B licensed

Renmin Ribao, 24 Juli 1964: Delegasi wanita Tiongkok tiba di Jakarta (我妇女代表团到达雅加达)

Chinese women's delegation arrives in Jakarta for 10th Kowani congress

Xinhua note in Renmin Ribao (24 July 1964, p. 4): the Chinese women's delegation led by Huang Ganying of the All-China Women's Federation arrived in Jakarta on 23 July to attend the 10th Kowani (Indonesian Women's Congress) session. Mudigdio, a Kowani leader (elsewhere Gerwani vice-chair), and the Chinese Consul-Genera

GA-02295 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Perempuan Dogmatis di Dua Dewan (Kiprah Umi Sardjono di DPR)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: A dogmatic woman in two councils (Umi Sardjono in parliament)

Tempo feature (2 Oct 2021, Hussein Abri and Stefanus Pramono) on Umi Sardjono's legislative career: Konstituante (1955) and DPR-GR (1959-65). She pushed immigration reform (no spousal permission), a marriage law banning polygamy with minimum age 21 (opposed by Aisyiyah, Muslimat NU), the 1960 agrarian law for women far

GA-02319 2021-10-04 Tempo English rel A licensed

The Feminist in Two Councils (Umi Sardjono in the Konstituante and DPR)

Tempo English, 4 October 2021: The feminist in two councils (Umi Sardjono in the Konstituante and DPR)

English edition of Tempo's 'The Feminist in Two Councils' (4 Oct 2021, Hussein Abri) on Umi Sardjono as legislator (Constituent Assembly 1955, DPR-GR 1959-65). It covers her immigration reform, marriage-bill push (minimum age 21, ban on polygamy, Maisuri case, 115 harmful marriages) opposed by Kowani's Islamic groups,