Xinhua note in Renmin Ribao (9 Oct 1963, p. 3): the seven-member Indonesian women's delegation and a three-member Ghanaian delegation left Beijing on 7 October to tour elsewhere. Names Soemarno's wife, Gerwani's Kartinah Kurdi, Kartini Radjasa, an Islamic teachers' women's leader and Rabiah Djamil of the Perti women's
CIA Directorate of Intelligence staff study (ESAU XXV, OCI 1855/64, 12 June 1964, by Helen-Louise Hunter) on the Sino-Soviet conflict in the international front organisations, September 1962 to December 1963. It covers AAPSO at Moshi, the Djakarta journalists' and writers' conferences, and Chinese attempts to build riv
People's Daily p. 2 (28 Aug 1964): the All-China Women's Federation held a reception for women scientists from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The excerpt lists delegates by country; the Indonesian ones are given as Mmes Budiyazuofu, Xiwabeixi, Caropeboka and Suhariyo. The sweep identifies 'Caropeboka' as Sumiyarsi Siw
People's Daily p. 2 (28 Aug 1964): the All-China Women's Federation held a reception for women scientists from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The excerpt lists delegates by country; the Indonesian ones are given as Mmes Budiyazuofu, Xiwabeixi, Caropeboka and Suhariyo. The sweep identifies 'Caropeboka' as Sumiyarsi Siw
Snippet-only Renmin Ribao extract (1 Oct 1964, p. 6) on foreign guests at China's 15th National Day. Among Indonesians listed are BTI and Pemuda Rakyat delegations and Mrs Juswati as Gerwani representative; truncated. Full text is GA-01944.
Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (1 Oct 1964, p. 6) on 2,600+ foreign guests at China's 15th National Day. Translation retains only Indonesian items: the PKI delegation under Yusuf Adjitorop, Harian Rakjat, SOBSI, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat, Kowani delegations and Mrs Juswati as Gerwani's representative. Gerwani is a single name
Two Xinhua reports in Renmin Ribao (5 Oct 1964, p. 1): Song Qingling, Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi receive women guests for China's National Day, then the All-China Women's Federation holds a reception with speeches by Cai Chang and a toast by Deng Yingchao. The Indonesian delegation includes Suharti (PKI CC, head of its Wom
Peking Review no. 41 (9 Oct 1964), Chinese state weekly, on the 15th anniversary of the People's Republic. A list of foreign guests received by Chinese leaders (p. 7) names Mme Suharti, PKI Central Committee member and First Vice-Chairman of Gerwani, with Mme Chairul Saleh (Women's Union of the Indonesian Republic), Mm
UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180333 (Jan-Dec 1965): Peking, Djakarta and Hanoi telegrams on Sino-Indonesian relations: Subandrio's visit, delegations, PKI-China links, then the post-coup anti-Chinese wave, attacks on Chinese premises and Medan riots. Only Gerwani mention: Angkatan Bersendjata (29 Oct, p. 82) says the
De Telegraaf report (1 Feb 1965) on Indonesia's rapprochement with China, quoting Sukarno's CBS interview and Subandrio's Peking visit. Gerwani is not named; Hartini Sukarno is quoted at a women's movement gathering calling for common struggle with "Chinese comrades" in 1965.
CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance of 8 Nov 1965 on Communist fronts (commentary 13-26 Oct 1965, WFTU Warsaw Congress, AAPSO Havana conference, Chinese foreign policy). Setiati Surasto appears only in a list of newly elected WFTU officials (Indonesia); the document notes the WIDF 20th anniversary and Indonesian delegate
Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (9 Dec 1966, p. 6) of a statement by Ibrahim Isa, secretary-general of Indonesian AAPSO, urging world solidarity against the Suharto-Nasution regime, said to hold 300,000 prisoners including women's organisation cadres and to have slaughtered hundreds of thousands. It also attacks Soviet '
PhD dissertation (Mississippi State, 1967) by Woo Jung Ju on Sino-Indonesian relations, 1949-1966, from Bandung to the collapse of the Jakarta-Peking axis. It follows the PKI's resurgence under Aidit, Guided Democracy, the Malaysia Confrontation and the planned second Afro-Asian Conference, largely from Western press a
Elisabeth Armstrong's 2023 book reconstructing the Asian Women's Conference, Beijing, 10-16 Dec 1949, hosted by the WIDF and the All-China Democratic Women's Federation, with its 'inside/outside' praxis of women's anti-imperialism. Context for WIDF-Asia ties before Gerwis's founding.
Tempo magazine profile (15 Dec 2024, archivist Rika Theo and Iwan Kurniawan) of Francisca Fanggidaej: Pesindo leader, survivor of Madiun 1948, in Chile during 30 Sept 1965, passport revoked 1967, 20 years in Beijing with the Afro-Asian journalists' organisation, then exile in the Netherlands from 1985. She joined the K