De Waarheid, 17 Mar 1953, p. 3: one-sentence Jakarta dispatch (9 March) that the Indonesian women's federation Gerwis sent a condolence telegram to the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women on Stalin's death. Evidence of Gerwis's ties to the Soviet women's committee.
FBIS-monitored Jakarta radio item (11 Mar 1954): two delegates of the Soviet Anti-Fascist Women's Committee will attend the Second Gerwis Congress in Jakarta, 24-31 March, at the invitation of the Gerwis central committee; delegates from other Eastern-bloc countries will also attend. Evidence of Gerwis's socialist-bloc
De Waarheid, 19 Mar 1954, p. 3: Jakarta dispatch that the Soviet Anti-Fascist Women's Committee will send two delegates, Alexandra Cholopowa (Kholopova) and Katherina Ljowa, with an interpreter, to the Gerwis congress. Also notes Harian Rakjat printing a photo of the NVB's fundraising soap, showing Indonesian sympathy