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2 itemsTopic: marriage law and polygamy ✕Organisation: Women's Union of the Republic of Indonesia ✕Perspective: Socialist-bloc/solidarity press ✕
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GA-02327 1955-05-13 Daily Worker rel B licensed

Perwari, Indonesia's Largest Women's Organization, Joins Asian Women Leaders (Assail Polygamy)

Daily Worker, 13 May 1955: Perwari, Indonesia's largest women's organisation, joins Asian women leaders (assail polygamy

Page 8 of the Daily Worker (New York, 13 May 1955). A short Djakarta dispatch (12 May) reports that the central committee of Perwari, described as Indonesia's largest women's organisation, joined Pakistani women in criticising Prime Minister Mohammed Ali's second marriage, and recalls Perwari's protest the previous yea

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