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GA-01037 1954-04-05 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel A

Goede verhouding met Nederland pas na teruggave Irian mogelijk (Gerwani ontvangen door Soekarno)

Good relations with Netherlands only after return of Irian (Gerwani received by Sukarno)

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (5 Apr 1954, p.1): President and Mrs Sukarno received Gerwani members (the former Gerwis) after their five-day Jakarta congress. Sukarno said a just state cannot be achieved by one sex alone. Dutch communist MP Rie Lips-Odinot, who attended, voiced Dutch sympathy; Sukarno replied that good r

GA-00961 1985-03-23 De Waarheid rel B

Volksverhuizing treft Papoea's

Population movement hits Papuans

De Waarheid report (23 Mar 1985, p.3) on a Dutch parliamentary committee debate criticising Indonesia's transmigration to West Papua. CPN MP Ina Brouwer, pressing minister Schoo on freedom of organisation, states that Gerwani, 'the progressive Indonesian women's movement' that once did much for women, is banned; Schoo