Clara Zetkin, Pioneer of the World Women's Movement
Api Kartini (1959-60) biographical article on Clara Zetkin (b. 1857), pioneer of the international women's movement, drawing on Luise Dornemann's biography. Traces her youth in Saxony, socialist formation in Leipzig, exile with Ossip Zetkin, editorship of Gleichheit in Stuttgart, and her 1910 Copenhagen proposal for an
Moments for Complete Independence (fragment)
Fragmentary Api Kartini (1959) item 'Moments ... for Complete Independence'; only OCR caption lines survive, referring to the historic Indonesian Women's Congress and women workers marching on 1 May (International Labour Day). Summary based on title and these fragments.
Bulgaria's National Day, 9 September 1959
Api Kartini (1959) article marking Bulgaria's National Day (9 September 1959), comparing Bulgaria's liberation from Ottoman and Nazi domination with Indonesia's. Praises socialist Bulgaria's gains for women: 41 women in parliament, 6,300 nurseries and kindergartens, 120 days paid maternity leave, public canteens. Typic
German Women's Hearts Refuse to Be Divided
Api Kartini (1959) travel-style article by S. Jin on divided Berlin and German women's campaign against atomic armament and remilitarisation. Cites arrests and petitions in West Germany (Renate Kruse, Renate Riemeck, Elisabeth Heimpel, Hamburg and Dortmund women's groups), East German women's views, and WIDF telegrams;
Friendly Visit to the Land of the Kangaroo
Api Kartini travel report by Rusiyati, an Antara journalist, on her month-long visit to Australia (1960) at the invitation of the Australian International Women's Day committee. Describes staying with working-class, clergy, artist and industrialist families, meetings of 25-250 women, equal-pay campaigns, and Australian
Welcoming National Day
Api Kartini (1959) editorial column 'Celebrating National Day': after Indonesia's 17 August, urges readers to welcome the national days of friendly states upholding the Bandung principles. Features the Democratic Republic of Vietnam's 2 September National Day with a poem by Ho Chi Minh. Solidarity propaganda with Asian
International Women's Assembly in Copenhagen, 21-24 April 1960
Api Kartini item announcing the International Women's Assembly in Copenhagen, 21-24 April 1960, marking fifty years since International Women's Day was proclaimed there in 1910. Reviews gains and unfinished goals in women's equality, and sets the conference theme of women yesterday, today and tomorrow as a forum to exc
Preparations for the Fiftieth Anniversary of International Women's Day
Api Kartini item on preparations for the Fiftieth Anniversary of International Women's Day (March 1960) in Indonesia. Carries a message from Ny. Aruji Kartawinata, chair of the Indonesian committee, to the international preparatory committee, linking Kartini's ideals to the 1910 Copenhagen resolutions and listing plann
A Brief Look Back
Article by Kukilowarsi (1959) for 17 August, recalling women's roles in the Indonesian revolution: 1926 rebels and Digul exiles, anti-Japanese resistance, women's guerrilla brigades, Red Cross and kitchens, and stories of Suparmi and a mother fighter. It cites the first women's congress of 1928, the 1955 vote, and dema
Latin American Women Defend Life
Api Kartini article (1959) by S. Djin on Latin American women's movements: the first Latin American Women's Congress in Santiago, Chile (November 1959), electricity-rate protests in Argentina, equal-pay demands in Chile, the Cuban women's conference, and anti-nuclear petitions in Colombia. Compares them to Asian-Africa
'From Our Mailbag' (WIDF magazine, 1959): readers' letters from France, Germany, USA, Sudan, Egypt, Colombia and Indonesia. The Jakarta letter, from Mrs Lies Said, editor of the women's magazine Wanita (30,000 readers), says Indonesian women still await the Marriage Law and will keep struggling for equal rights. Gerwan
FBIS, 28 March 1959: Aidit broadcast speech (farewell to the Chinese people)
FBIS-monitored Xinhua text (28 Mar 1959) of D.N. Aidit's farewell broadcast to the Chinese people after a fortnight's PKI delegation visit. He praises the Great Leap and people's communes, defends them against 'imperialist lies', and argues peasant women welcome communal dining and nurseries because 'a smoky kitchen is
Ottawa Citizen, 22 April 1959, p.27: society-page report of a Kartini Day tea and sherry party given by Mrs. L. N. Palar, wife of Indonesia's minister to Canada, marking the birthday of Kartini (b. 21 April 1879), described as a nationalist and pioneer of the Indonesian women's movement and symbol of women's emancipati
Indonesia's New Governmental Bodies (OIR report, Oct 1959)
State Department intelligence report (13 Oct 1959) on Indonesia's new governmental bodies under Guided Democracy: Cabinet, National Advisory Council, National Planning Council. Appendices list members with functional-group labels, including S.K. Trimurti (teachers), Umi Sardjono (women), Rasuna Said and Emma Puradiredj
Echoes of the Revolution (fragment)
Fragmentary Api Kartini (1960) item 'Echoes of Revolution': OCR remnants of a rhetorical piece or poem on women marching, crushing colonialism, and demanding equal rights in politics and economy. Too damaged to summarise beyond title and these themes.
Ever Firmer Friendship (Indonesia-USSR)
Api Kartini (late 1960) item on strengthening Indonesia-USSR friendship: state visits by Sukarno and Khrushchev, cultural and economic agreements, Indonesian students at Friendship University, Soviet-built Asian Games stadium and a Soviet industrial exhibition in Jakarta. Reports that after the Copenhagen assembly an I
Women's Solidarity from Many Countries (against the Karel Doorman)
Api Kartini (1960) compilation of foreign women's solidarity statements against the Dutch dispatch of the carrier Karel Doorman and troops to Irian Barat. Includes Dutch women's movement (NVB) protests to parliament and a Rotterdam petition, a WIDF statement backing Indonesia, and a message from Australian miners' wive
The 15th Anniversary of the August Revolution
Api Kartini (Aug-Sept 1960) report on the 15th anniversary of the August Revolution: summarises Sukarno's 17 August address to the DPR-GR plenary and speech (Manipol-USDEK, unity of Nasakom groups, landreform, retooling, firm line on Irian Barat). Also prints editorial replies to readers in Lombok and Central Java. Con
The Atom Bomb Continues to Kill After Fifteen Years (Api Kartini, 1960)
Article in Api Kartini (1960), in Indonesian, 'The atomic bomb continues to kill after fifteen years'. A Japanese mother tells of her daughter Hiroko Kayiyama, who died of leukaemia in April 1960 aged 17 after Hiroshima radiation. It notes Japanese women delegates at the WIDF assembly in Copenhagen (21 April 1960) and
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.
FBIS, 8 March 1960: Furtseva article hails Women's Day
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
Singapore Free Press, 16 June 1960 (lead snippet only; full text behind NewspaperSG click-through). A hand grenade thrown by an unknown person into the house of 'Mr. Nungtjik' in Jakarta killed one woman and injured a member of parliament and a girl. The item does not name Zubaidah Nungtjik or any Gerwani member; the l
FBIS, 7 July 1960: Mourning of Tjimahi victims continues
FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (7 Jul 1960): over 18,000 overseas Chinese and Indonesians visited Tjimahi, West Java, to mourn two overseas Chinese women (Yang Mu-mei, Yeh Chin-niang) killed by West Java military authorities during the forced evacuation of Chinese from rural areas. Chinese groups demanded punishment and
Neue Zeit, 24 Nov 1960, p. 1: The great consultation of our women has begun
Neue Zeit, 24 November 1960, p. 1: front-page report "Die große Beratung unserer Frauen hat begonnen" on the opening of the 7th DFD Federal Congress in East Berlin, with greetings from the Council of State and government and Ilse Thiele's keynote. Indonesia is only named among the countries (with India, Ghana, Iraq, th
Two Women Leaders Exchange Letters, One Wish: Lasting Peace
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
To Die for the Homeland Is to Live (Cuban Women)
Api Kartini (early 1961) article on Cuban women in the revolution: the women's fighting unit led by Isabel Rieg (named after Mariana Grajales), Vilma Espin's description of rural hunger under Batista, and the August 1960 founding of the Federation of Cuban Women under Espin. Page also carries a humorous 'Mak Ompreng' c
On the Magazine Women of the Whole World
Api Kartini (1961) feature introducing the WIDF's monthly magazine 'Women of the Whole World' (six languages, Berlin), describing its sections on women's rights, peace, children and culture, and its photo covers. Gives subscription details for Indonesian readers (Rp. 12 per year via Jakarta) and notes administrative de
Letter from New York: American Youth and Peace
Api Kartini (1961) item 'Letter from New York': a young American woman's account (Bettina Aptheker, per the editors' note) of growing American youth peace activism, with marches, vigils and demonstrations from 1960 to August 1961 and the formation of a single national peace organisation. Printed by the editors in Indon
Hell on Earth
Api Kartini item (1961), a review of Nguyen Xuan Tram's book 'Hell on Earth' on South Vietnamese women prisoners under Ngo Dinh Diem, including mothers jailed with infants and tortured. It ends by condemning planned US military intervention (General Maxwell Taylor's mission) as a threat to peace in Southeast Asia. Gerw
Dance, Music, Architecture: Testimony to Indonesian Culture (Lüders and Bothas)
Women of the Whole World, 1961: staff writer Kate Lüders interviews Dagmar Bothas about a four-month government-guest visit to Java, Bali and Kalimantan, emphasising dance, music, temples and the literacy campaign (Minister Prijono). Gerwani appears only in a caption about May Day demonstrations; background material.