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GA-02341 1947-08-10 Sunday Worker rel A licensed

Indonesian Minister of Labor is a woman, Mrs. S. K. Trimurti

Sunday Worker, 10 August 1947, p. 8: Indonesian Minister of Labor is a woman, Mrs S.K. Trimurti

Sunday Worker, 10 Aug 1947, p. 8: the OCR contains only a crossword puzzle (clues and grid), so the catalogued article on S. K. Trimurti as Indonesia's woman Minister of Labor cannot be read or checked. No Gerwani/Gerwis content is verifiable.

GA-02622 1959-10-13 rel C licensed

Indonesia's new governmental bodies (OIR report, October 1959)

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

GA-00104 1964 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Sedikit tentang Gerakan Wanita Indonesia

A Little about the Indonesian Women's Movement

Api Kartini (late 1964) history of the Indonesian women's movement for Youth Pledge Day, tracing Kartini, Isteri Sedar, Perwari, wartime Fujinkai and Gerwis's founding on 4 June 1950 from the Gerakan Wanita Sedar, its name change to Gerwani after merging with railway workers' wives and Perwin Menado, joining Kowani and

GA-02573 1965 rel B licensed

FO 371/181556 - Joint Malaysia-Indonesia, Propaganda [1] (1965)

FO 371/181556: Joint Malaysia-Indonesia Department, Propaganda [1] (1965)

UK Foreign Office file FO 371/181556 (Joint Malaysia-Indonesia Department, 1965): minutes, letters and telegrams on countering Indonesian propaganda during Konfrontasi (crashed-aircraft evidence, guidance telegram no. 36, Afro-Asian posts). It has nothing on Gerwani in the official papers. Filed within it is a printed

GA-02229 1974-06-29 Tempo rel A licensed

Ultah SK Trimurti (Ulang tahun S.K. Trimurti)

Tempo, 29 June 1974: S.K. Trimurti's birthday

Tempo profile (29 June 1974) of S.K. Trimurti on her 64th birthday by the Javanese calendar: ex-Minister of Labour (1946-47), journalist since 1933, now editing the spiritual magazine Mawas Diri. Notes her will asking for cremation, her economics degree at 48, a forthcoming biography by Kustiniati Mochtar. No mention o

GA-03593 1977-02-26 Tempo (weekly), 26 February 1977 rel B licensed

Ceramah tentang wanita (Maria Ulfah; S.K. Trimurti mentioned)

Lecture on women (Maria Ulfah; S.K. Trimurti mentioned), Tempo, 26 Feb 1977

Tempo item (26 February 1977) profiling Maria Ulfah, who advises working women on labour rights and the marriage law and speaks against polygamy. It says she works with 'dra. SK Trimurti' in the Yayasan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (YTKI) on women workers' workshops, seminars and legal information. Trimurti, a Gerwis founder

GA-02233 1990-05-12 Tempo rel A licensed

S.K. Trimurti meluruskan (S.K. Trimurti meluruskan)

Tempo, 12 May 1990: S.K. Trimurti sets the record straight (reader's letter)

Reader's letter in Tempo (12 May 1990) responding to Trimurti's memoir excerpt of 21 April 1990, praising her 'steel mentality' after a six-hour beating by the Dutch police and contrasting it with migrant worker Kurtiah's abuse abroad. The heading also carries a correction: Trimurti born in Sawahan, Boyolali, 11 May 19

GA-02236 2005-08-29 Tempo rel B licensed

S.K. Trimurti, 93 tahun

Tempo, 29 August 2005: S.K. Trimurti at 93

Short Tempo news item (29 Aug 2005) that S.K. Trimurti, 93, 'journalist of three eras' and Labour Minister in 1947, is hospitalised at PGI Cikini; Social Minister gave Rp 50 million and Megawati visited. The page also carries unrelated briefs. No Gerwani content.

GA-02237 2008-05-20 Tempo rel B licensed

Hatta Rajasa Melayat SK Trimurti

Tempo.co, 20 May 2008: Hatta Rajasa pays respects to S.K. Trimurti

Tempo.co news (20 May 2008) on officials (Hatta Rajasa, Fauzi Bowo, Murdiono) paying respects to the late S.K. Trimurti at RSPAD Gatot Subroto; she died aged 96 at 18.20 and her care was paid by the state on President Yudhoyono's order. Describes her as an independence pioneer and wife of Sayuti Melik. No Gerwani conte

GA-03045 2020 rel C licensed

Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959

Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959 (Lin, 2020)

PhD dissertation (History, University of Washington, 2020) by Hongxuan Lin tracing the confluence of Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959, through vernacular print culture; it genealogises Sukarno's NASAKOM. Gerwani appears only briefly: citing Blackburn, it says millions joined for

GA-02291 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Dari Putri Priayi ke Aktivis Bawah Tanah (Bagaimana Umi Sardjono menjadi aktivis perempuan)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: From priyayi daughter to underground activist (how Umi Sardjono became an activist)

Tempo biographical feature (2 Oct 2021, Isma Savitri and Nurdin Kalim) on Umi Sardjono's early life: born Suharti Sumodiwirjo in Salatiga, 24 Dec 1923, inspired by Kartini, joined Parindra then Gerindo, worked as an underground courier in East Java, tortured by the Japanese in 1943 alongside S.K. Trimurti, married Suki

GA-02292 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Gerwani, Sukarno, dan Poligami (Gerwani dan dilema semangat persaudaraan)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Gerwani, Sukarno and polygamy (Gerwani and the dilemma of brotherhood)

Tempo essay (2 Oct 2021) by I Gusti Agung Ayu Ratih on why Gerwani did not criticise Sukarno's polygamy. It recounts Kowani expelling Gerwani on 29 Oct 1965 and removing Hurustiati Subandrio in 1966, the erasure of Gerwani from women's movement history, Perwari rivalry, Gerwani members' reverence for Sukarno, and anti-

GA-02316 2021-10-04 Tempo English rel A licensed

From A Civil Servant's Daughter to An Underground Activist (Umi Sardjono)

Tempo English, 4 October 2021: From a civil servant's daughter to an underground activist (Umi Sardjono)

Tempo English cover story (4 Oct 2021, Isma Savitri) on Umi Sardjono's early life, drawing on Ruth Indiah Rahayu and Lilik H.S. Born Suharti Sumodiwirjo in Salatiga in 1923 to a civil servant, she was shaped by Kartini, Parindra and Gerindo, worked as an underground courier in East Java, was tortured by the Japanese in

GA-02302 2023-05-22 Tempo rel C licensed

SK Trimurti, Menteri Tenaga Kerja Pertama Indonesia dan Perjalanan Politiknya

Tempo.co, 22 May 2023: S.K. Trimurti, Indonesia's first labour minister, and her political journey

Tempo.co profile (22 May 2023, Febyana Siagian and S. Dian Andryanto) of SK Trimurti, journalist and Indonesia's first labour minister. It covers her birth in Boyolali (1912), teacher training, Rukun Wanita, Partindo in Bandung, press work, witnessing the BPUPKI and the 1945 proclamation push, KNIP membership, and the