WIDF Information Bulletin no. 10/1958 report on Gerwani since its Third Congress (December 1957): regional conferences, new constitution (branches replace workplace branches, 20-member minimum), plan to double membership, campaign for a national marriage law against polygamy with Sumari (PNI) and Mudigdio (PKI) MPs in
1958 WIDF note: Indonesian women write that the country faces rebellion backed by SEATO and the US (the PRRI/Permesta crisis), and that women join the struggle shoulder to shoulder with men. Gerwani sets up public kitchens, collects food and magazines for the front, runs first aid; in rebel-held West Sumatra its leader
Renmin Ribao, 16 Feb 1958, p. 6 (Xinhua): Sukarno ends a Japan visit, denouncing imperialism and rejecting interference; a Jakarta item reports SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani, BTI and others backing the arrest of rebels such as Hussein and Lubis. Gerwani appears only in that list.
Renmin Ribao, 16 Feb 1958, p. 6 (Xinhua): Sukarno ends a Japan visit, denouncing imperialism and rejecting interference; a Jakarta item reports SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani, BTI and others backing the arrest of rebels such as Hussein and Lubis. Gerwani appears only in that list.
Renmin Ribao commentary, 17 Feb 1958, p. 5: praises Sukarno's nine-nation tour, backs Indonesia's West Irian claim and calls the PRRI/Permesta rebels imperialist-instigated. Notes that SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani, BTI and seventeen Sumatran organisations backed the arrest of the rebels, and cites Aidit's call to brin
Renmin Ribao commentary, 17 Feb 1958, p. 5: praises Sukarno's nine-nation tour, backs Indonesia's West Irian claim and calls the PRRI/Permesta rebels imperialist-instigated. Notes that SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani, BTI and seventeen Sumatran organisations backed the arrest of the rebels, and cites Aidit's call to brin
Renmin Ribao, 18 Feb 1958, p. 6 (Xinhua, Colombo): first plenary of the Afro-Asian Women's Conference. Maria Ulfah Santoso, head of the Indonesian delegation, appeals for support on West Irian and against destructive use of atomic energy; the Chinese delegation walks out over the UN/UNESCO observer. Gerwani is not name
Renmin Ribao, 18 Feb 1958, p. 6 (Xinhua, Colombo): first plenary of the Afro-Asian Women's Conference. Maria Ulfah Santoso, head of the Indonesian delegation, appeals for support on West Irian and against destructive use of atomic energy; the Chinese delegation walks out over the UN/UNESCO observer. Gerwani is not name
FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (5 May 1958), a noisier excerpt of the same item as GA-02461: Indonesian mass organisations endorsed Premier Djuanda's denunciation of US intervention; the Peasants' Front claimed 3.5 million members; Gerwani sent a strong protest to the UN Secretary-General and demanded expulsion of the Ch
Renmin Ribao, 6 May 1958, p. 6 (Xinhua, Jakarta; Jiang Yousheng commentary): Indonesian organisations back Djuanda's statement against US and Chiang Kai-shek aid to the rebels. Gerwani telegraphed the UN Secretary-General on 4 May protesting American interference; BTI, the Peace Committee and seventeen Jakarta mass org
Renmin Ribao, 6 May 1958, p. 6 (Xinhua, Jakarta; Jiang Yousheng commentary): Indonesian organisations back Djuanda's statement against US and Chiang Kai-shek aid to the rebels. Gerwani telegraphed the UN Secretary-General on 4 May protesting American interference; BTI, the Peace Committee and seventeen Jakarta mass org
FBIS-monitored Xinhua item (14 May 1958): an 'anti-foreign intervention mass movement' of 27 Indonesian organisations planned a 16 May Jakarta rally. WIDF sent a message on behalf of 'hundreds of millions of women' supporting Indonesian women fighting for democracy and independence; Indonesian papers alleged US Ambassa
FBIS editorial report (19 Sep 1958) on foreign items carried by Xinhua on 18 Sept supporting China in the Taiwan Strait crisis (TASS and Soviet commentary, US critics, Poland, Oman, Australia, Burma, German unionists). One clause notes support from 'an Indonesian women's organization' and Indonesian public figures; no
Renmin Ribao, 20 Sep 1958, p. 4 (Xinhua, Jakarta): amid the Taiwan Strait crisis, Gerwani, speaking for its 650,000 members, protests American interference over Taiwan and the offshore islands; Indonesian railway and rice-workers' unions make similar demands. Other items give Syrian, Pakistani, Omani and Mauritanian su
Renmin Ribao, 20 Sep 1958, p. 4 (Xinhua, Jakarta): amid the Taiwan Strait crisis, Gerwani, speaking for its 650,000 members, protests American interference over Taiwan and the offshore islands; Indonesian railway and rice-workers' unions make similar demands. Other items give Syrian, Pakistani, Omani and Mauritanian su
Api Kartini (1959) short article marking 50 years of International Women's Day (1910-1960), reproducing the appeal of the preparatory committee after the Malmo meeting of 13-14 June 1959 (women of 28 countries). Links women's rights to peace and national self-determination and invites support for the 1960 jubilee. No I
Api Kartini (1959) article for 7 November (Russian Revolution anniversary) on the women of the Soviet Union. Reports a gathering in Jakarta where Soviet Supreme Soviet member Zaripova, visiting Indonesia, described women's advancement since 1917 (366 women of 1,378 deputies; 85% of health workers women) and the Soviet
Api Kartini (1959/60) feature asking Indonesian women leaders their views on the Copenhagen International Women's Conference (21-24 April 1960) for the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day. Quotes Ny. Aruji Kartawinata (committee chair), Ratu Aminah Hidayat and Dr. Hurustiati Subandrio, who led the Indonesian
Api Kartini (1959) article on how the WIDF (GWDS) and millions of women abroad supported Indonesia's independence struggle, noting Gerwani as an Indonesian member. Recounts WIDF's 1947 message to the UN against the Dutch aggression, Dutch women's protests (Schoonhoven, NVB), 1949 actions and later solidarity on Irian B
Api Kartini (December 1959) news-roundup column. Notes the Kungalv (Sweden) women's disarmament conference attended by A. Hidayat, a Gerakan Ibu protest letter to the UN on French A-bomb tests, Jakarta preparations for the 50th International Women's Day (lectures among peasant women, bazaar), and a DPP Gerwani work mee
Fragmentary Api Kartini (1959) item titled 'Historic Struggle of Women'; only a few OCR lines survive, a snippet about mothers' responsibility to protect their offspring and Indonesian women taking an active part in the peace movement. Summary based on the title and this fragment.
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;
Api Kartini (1959) article welcoming Cameroon's coming independence (1 January 1960). Profiles Marthe Ouandie of the Cameroon women's movement and WIDF (based in East Berlin), who knows Indonesian women of GERWANI through WIDF and the peasant-women's federation; expresses Indonesian women's solidarity and support for U
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
Api Kartini (December 1959) article on nuclear weapons and mothers' duty to defend peace, describing Hiroshima's after-effects and the A/H-bomb test race. Reports Ratu Aminah Hidayat's invitation to the 11 December women's disarmament conference at Kungalv, Sweden, and the Indonesian Mothers' Committee against A-H Bomb
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
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
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
Api Kartini report on the WIDF Bureau meeting in Jakarta, 31 January-3 February 1960, at Hotel Duta Indonesia, the first WIDF meeting held in Indonesia. Quotes Prime Minister Juanda's welcome and speeches by Anasuya Gyankhand, Marie Pritt, Thiele, Maria Rossi and Marguerite de Ponce; delegates met Kowani and Gerwani ac
Api Kartini (1959-60) profile for Kartini Day of Utami Suryadarma, wife of the Air Force chief, presented as a leading woman of Indonesian women's organisations: Kowani foreign-information head, chair of the Children's Welfare Foundation, Armed Forces arts committee and an AURI wives' committee, and founder of a girls'