WIDF magazine 1960 item on Hiroshima victims: a mother's letter to the Copenhagen international assembly of women recounts her 17-year-old daughter Hiroko Kajiyama's death from leukaemia on 5 April 1960, plus remarks on Japan's ratification of the US-Japan security pact. No Indonesian content or Gerwani mention.
Suara Tani (BTI organ), Feb 1960 (vol. XI no. 2), OCR noisy. Covers BTI protest over price rises, sugar-cane land rents, Khrushchev's coming visit and the Bandung peace conference. On p. 3 an article welcomes the WIDF Bureau session in Jakarta (late Jan 1960), stressing peasant women's backwardness, citing Sri Darnings
Berliner Zeitung, 13 February 1960, p. 5: short ADN/EB item 'Zwischenaufenthalt in Burma'. DFD chair Ilse Thiele, returning from Indonesia where she attended the WIDF (IDFF) bureau session and the Indonesian Peace Congress, stopped briefly in Rangoon and discussed the position of women in the GDR with the Burmese parli
FBIS-monitored Moscow text (8 Mar 1960) of Yekaterina Furtseva's Pravda article 'Women and the Building of Communism' for the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day: Marxist-Leninist emancipation theory, Soviet statistics on women in work, soviets and science, contrast with capitalist 'free world', peace and dis
Tribune (Sydney), 9 Mar 1960, p. 12: report of the Sydney celebration of the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day. Messages came from women abroad, including Chinese and Indonesian guests prevented from attending by visa and passport difficulties. UAW president Noreen Hewitt spoke of China; theme was equal sta
Tribune (Sydney), 9 Mar 1960, p. 12: report of the Sydney celebration of the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day. Messages came from women abroad, including Chinese and Indonesian guests prevented from attending by visa and passport difficulties. UAW president Noreen Hewitt spoke of China; theme was equal sta
Townsville Daily Bulletin classified-advertising page, 11 Mar 1960, p. 10: mostly unrelated ads and notices. The relevant item is an advertisement for 'International Women's Day Jubilee Celebrations' at the C.W.A. Hall, Townsville, on 15 March 1960, inviting the public to hear overseas visitors from the National Federa
Townsville Daily Bulletin classified-advertising page, 12 Mar 1960, p. 10: mostly unrelated ads and notices. The relevant item is an advertisement for 'International Women's Day Jubilee Celebrations' at the C.W.A. Hall, Townsville, on 15 March 1960, inviting the public to hear overseas visitors from the National Federa
Townsville Daily Bulletin classified-advertising page, 14 Mar 1960: mostly unrelated ads and notices. The relevant item is an advertisement for 'International Women's Day Jubilee Celebrations' at the C.W.A. Hall, Townsville, on 15 March 1960, inviting the public to hear overseas visitors from the National Federation of
Tribune (Sydney), 20 Apr 1960, p. 9: profile of Mrs Rusijah Sukardi (name as OCR'd), an ANTARA journalist visiting Australia as guest of the International Women's Day Committee. She says she joined the youth movement in 1928 and gives figures on Indonesian women MPs and teachers. Names Gerwani, 'the Indonesian Women's
Tribune (Sydney), 20 Apr 1960, p. 9: profile of Mrs Rusijah Sukardi (name as OCR'd), an ANTARA journalist visiting Australia as guest of the International Women's Day Committee. She says she joined the youth movement in 1928 and gives figures on Indonesian women MPs and teachers. Names Gerwani, 'the Indonesian Women's
Suara Tani (BTI organ), June 1960 (vol. XI no. 6), OCR noisy. Issue marks PKI's 40th anniversary, the DPR-GR, the sharecropping law and the 5-Principles rice method. P. 3 (cont. p. 6) gives short biographies of BTI peasant representatives in the DPR-GR, including Ny. Kartinah Kurdi (Taman Siswa teacher, Yogyakarta, act
De Waarheid, 8 Jun 1960, p. 3: report that the NVB received a telegram from Gerwani, 'For peace and humanity, do not send your sons to West Irian', and replied that it will try to launch a big protest campaign. Quotes the NVB's letter to the Dutch cabinet opposing troop and arms shipments to New Guinea and recalling th
Renmin Ribao, 11 Jul 1960, p. 6 (Xinhua): a four-member Gerwani delegation led by Mrs Suwarti arrives in Beijing by air at the All-China Women's Federation's invitation; ACWF officials meet them at the airport and a fifth member will follow. Brief arrival notice, no programme given.
Renmin Ribao, 11 Jul 1960, p. 6 (Xinhua): a four-member Gerwani delegation led by Mrs Suwarti arrives in Beijing by air at the All-China Women's Federation's invitation; ACWF officials meet them at the airport and a fifth member will follow. Brief arrival notice, no programme given.
Compilation of US embassy Djakarta biographical despatches (2 Aug 1960) on members of the new Gotong Royong parliament. Contains profiles of Gerwani figures: Umi Sardjono (Gerwis then Gerwani chairwoman, WIDF delegate 1960), Francisca Fanggidaej (PKI women's group Gerwani board), Setiati Surasto (SARBUPRI, Gerwani link
De Waarheid, 29 Aug 1960, p. 2: publication of Gerwani's reply letter to the NVB, thanking Dutch women on behalf of its 710,000 members for their efforts to prevent sons being sent to West Irian, promising to publish the NVB letter in Indonesia and to keep working for peace. Prefaced by a note recalling Gerwani's teleg
FBIS-monitored Xinhua item (11 Sep 1960): five members of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) delegation, including Siti Asijah (surname OCR-garbled), arrived in Peking as the second group visiting China at the invitation of the PRC National Women's Federation; Wu Chuan-heng of the federation met them. Shows Gerw
Peking Review vol. III no. 38 (20 Sept 1960), a full issue of the Chinese weekly: Chou Yang on socialist literature and art, Congo and India statements, agriculture and cinema. The only Gerwani-relevant item is a brief list of foreign delegations ('Friends from the Four Seas', p. 27) that includes a Delegation of the I
Renmin Ribao, 1 Oct 1960, p. 2 (Xinhua): long list of nearly 2,000 foreign guests in Beijing for China's 11th National Day, from over seventy countries. Includes Indonesian guests and a Gerwani study group headed by Mrs Suwarti, Central Committee member and head of Gerwani's organisation department. Most entries (trans
Renmin Ribao, 1 Oct 1960, p. 2 (Xinhua): long list of nearly 2,000 foreign guests in Beijing for China's 11th National Day, from over seventy countries. Includes Indonesian guests and a Gerwani study group headed by Mrs Suwarti, Central Committee member and head of Gerwani's organisation department. Most entries (trans
Neues Deutschland, 22 November 1960, p. 7: ADN item 'Frauen aus fünf Ländern in der DDR'. Sixty representatives of democratic women's organisations from Austria, Finland, Sweden, Italy and Indonesia arrived at Schönefeld airport for the 7th Federal Congress of the DFD and were welcomed by deputy chair Wilhelmine Schirm
Neue Zeit, 4 December 1960, p. 8 (women's page): short item "Von einem Wunsch beseelt" under the heading "Frauen kämpfen für den Frieden / 15 Jahre IDFF". Women from East and West Berlin met at the 14th all-Berlin women's forum with women from France, Poland, Bulgaria, Austria and Indonesia to celebrate the 15th annive
Gerwani statute booklet ratified at the Fourth National Congress, Jakarta, 14–17 December 1961. Includes a congress address on revisions, the Mukadimah (preamble) and 49 articles covering structure, membership and a Foreign Section; affiliates Gerwani with the WIDF and recounts the 1954 break with Gerwis.
December 1961 issue on West Irian and Gerwani's Fourth Congress (Jakarta, 14–17 Dec 1961): Hari Ibu rally at Istana with Sukarno's Trikora speech and foreign guests Gloria Garton (Australia, WIDF) and Dzhara Ilkhamowa (Uzbekistan).
March 1961 issue for International Women's Day: Sudjinah on the Algerian war and WIDF solidarity, Sugiarti Siswadi's open letter to Pauline Lumumba, and features on revolutionary couples (Lumumbas, Fuciks, Rosenbergs).
Double issue (Apr–May 1961, 40 pp.) for Kartini Day and Education Day, dense with transnational content including a visiting Chinese cultural mission and embassy commemorations in Cairo, Rome, Moscow and New York.
June 1961 issue (second anniversary, 5000 copies): Indian women honouring Rameshwari Nehru's Lenin Peace Prize, a profile of WIDF magazine Women of the Whole World and its Afro-Asian congress coverage.
July 1961 issue: interview on National Children's Week and education budget, Central Kalimantan customary law refuting colonial stereotypes, Sukarno's Manifesto against rock and roll, and French WIDF-affiliated women's press.
Api Kartini (1961) exchange of open letters on peace between Ny. A. Hidayat, a leader of the Indonesian peace committee, and Nina Popova of the Soviet women's movement, about nuclear tests, disarmament and the Soviet space flights of Gagarin and Titov. The page also carries a mother's letter to school-age children. Pea