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GA-01018 1950-11-28 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel B

Vijfde Vrouwencongres te Djakarta begonnen (KOWANI)

Fifth Women's Congress opened in Jakarta (KOWANI)

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (28 Nov 1950, p.2): the KOWANI 5th women's congress opens in Jakarta with about 200 delegates; Mrs Pudjobuntoro says the struggle continues until Irian returns. Preliminary papers: Miss Soesilowati on elections and women in parliament, Mr Nani Suwondo on marriage, Miss Suwarti on labour and

GA-00972 1988-05-07 De Waarheid rel A

Sociale systeem (over de Indonesische vrouwenbeweging na 1949)

Social system (on the Indonesian women's movement after 1949)

De Waarheid text (7 May 1988, p.6), apparently a speech/interview by an unnamed Indonesian woman, on the Indonesian women's movement. She says Gerwani, with about 1.5 million members after 1949, gave the movement its mass character defending peasant and working women, while Perwari led on polygamy; after 1965 Gerwani w

GA-02865 2005 rel C

A Study on the Historical Formation of Ibuism in Indonesia: the 1937 Marriage Bill Debate (Hirano Keiko, 2005; in Japanese)

Historical formation of ibuism in Indonesia: the 1937 Marriage Bill debate (Hirano, 2005)

Hirano Keiko's Japanese article (2005) on the historical formation of 'ibuism', arguing the supposedly priyayi tradition was produced under colonial rule through the conflict over the 1937 monogamous marriage bill. Context on gender ideology and marriage law; Gerwani marginal.

GA-02873 2020 rel A

Feminismus als Klassenfrage, Teil I (Ita Fatia Nadia, südostasien 3/2020)

Feminism as a Class Question, Part I (Ita Fatia Nadia, 2020)

Part I of Ita Fatia Nadia's essay (südostasien 3/2020) tracing the women's movement 1912-65 to Gerwani: peasant and plantation work, marriage and land reform, WIDF ties and 1.7 million members. Notes Kowani in the WIDF 1946-49 and Indonesian women at the WIDF secretariat. In German.