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GA-01115 1952-08-18 Indische Courant Voor Nederland rel B

Gerwis Jawa Timur: delegasi ke konferensi perdamaian Peking (Gerwis East Java: delegation to the Peking peace conference)

Gerwis East Java: delegation to the Peking peace conference

Short Aneta item, Indische Courant voor Nederland, 18 Aug 1952, p. 3: the East Java branch conference of Gerwis decides to send a delegation (Mrs Tam, Sulami, Warmi) to the Asian peace conference in Peking. Also notes Salatiga teacher-training funds and the Parindra congress.

GA-00770 1952-09-04 De Vrije Pers rel B

Demonstraties verboden (Demonstrations banned)

Demonstrations banned: Surabaya refuses permission for 7 September rally

De Vrije Pers item (4 Sep 1952): Surabaya authorities refused permission for the 7 September demonstration for August-raid detainees; a delegation of Mrs. Tam, Mrs. Talia and Miss Sulami left for Jakarta to seek a presidential audience, and Tam and Sulami with Miss Warmi and Mr Fatkali were to go on to the "communist p

GA-02088 1957 Pravda rel B

Pravda, 8 Maret 1957, No. 67: Kehidupan dan perjuangan perempuan Indonesia (Hari Perempuan Internasional)

Pravda, 8 Mar 1957: life and struggle of Indonesian women (International Women's Day)

Pravda, 8 March 1957 (No. 67), p. 4 only (machine-translated): International Women's Day page with statements by Cai Chang (China), the WIDF president, Syrian and Soviet women, and 'Ban atomic and hydrogen weapons!' by T. Sulami, member of Indonesia's national 8 March Committee. She stresses women's role in the 1954 el

GA-03567 1957-03-08 Pravda, 8 March 1957, p. 4 rel A licensed

Pravda, 8 March 1957, p. 4: International Women's Day statement by T. Sulami (Indonesia)

Pravda, 8 Mar 1957: International Women's Day statement by T. Sulami (Indonesia)

Page 4 of Pravda (8 March 1957), International Women's Day, carrying a statement signed 'T. Sulami, member of the national 8 March Committee of the Republic of Indonesia'. She describes Indonesian women's life and struggle, sixteen women elected to parliament and 33 to the Constituent Assembly, rising schooling, anti-c

GA-02397 1958 rel A

Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1958): Cabang Gerwani, Sekretariat Kowani, Sulami

US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1958): Gerwani branches, Kowani secretariat, Sulami

US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1958) extracts: Kowani secretariat (Maria Ulfah Santoso chair, Mudigdio of Gerwani treasurer); Harian Rakjat's 30 Dec 1957 list of Gerwani's working council (Umi Sardjono chair; Mudigdio, Suharti, S.K. Trimurti deputies; Kartinah secretary-general; Sulami deputy; Suwati Sutrimo Sudji

GA-02812 1959 Sulami rel A licensed

The Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part II (Sulami, 1959)

Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part II (Sulami, 1959)

Part II of Sulami's 1959 history: Indonesian women under Japanese occupation (Fujinkai, women coerced as 'geishas'), the 1945 proclamation, founding of Perwari (Klaten, Dec 1945), the formation of KOWANI (Solo, Feb 1946), its second congress at Madiun deciding to affiliate to WIDF, and women's role in partisan resistan

GA-00117 1960 Sulami rel A licensed

Wanita Italia

Italian Women

Article by Sulami (1960) reporting on the 8th national congress of the Union of Italian Women (UDI) in Rome in May, attended by 783 delegates and foreign guests including Indonesia. Describes Maria Maddalena Rossi and Marisa Rodano, the women's demands (equal pay, pensions for housewives, social security, opposition to

GA-00033 1961 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 2 Th. 3, Februari 1961

Api Kartini No. 2, Year 3, February 1961

February 1961 issue tied to Sukarno's speech at the Indonesian Women's Congress (6 Feb 1961); a cluster of pieces mourning the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, with editorial calls for land reform and socialist society.

GA-00041 1962 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 3 Th. 4, Maret 1962

Api Kartini No. 3, Year 4, March 1962

March 1962 issue on International Women's Day: its history from the socialist women's movement and suffrage victories to the 1962 Jakarta commemoration at UI; cover commemorates Clara Zetkin.

GA-00039 1962-01 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 1 Th. 4, Januari 1962

Api Kartini No. 1, Year 4, January 1962

January 1962 issue opening with a report on Gerwani's Fourth Congress (Dec 1961; 400 delegates), where Sukarno urged it to stay a revolutionary mass movement not a 'ladies movement'; WIDF foreign guests, Mudigdio, Sulami and Sudjinah appear.

GA-00045 1963 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 1 Th. 5, Januari 1963

Api Kartini No. 1, Year 5, January 1963

January 1963 issue opening with a report on the DPP Gerwani plenum (Jakarta, 6–10 Jan 1963) where Umi Sardjono addressed the international situation and the plenum endorsed the coming WIDF World Congress.

GA-01962 1965-03-08 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 8 Maret 1965: Protes keras atas pemboman AS di Vietnam; 75.000 pemuda berapat di Indonesia (强烈抗议美国再次轰炸越南民主共和国)

Strong protests against US bombing of Vietnam; 75,000 youth rally in Semarang

Xinhua dispatches in Renmin Ribao (8 Mar 1965, p. 4): 75,000 youth in Semarang demand confiscation of US capital and expulsion of the Peace Corps; Buddhists protest at the US Embassy. Women volunteers' leaders, including Gerwani volunteer-command leaders Sulami and Suwati Trimo (uncertain) and adviser Mrs Arudji Kartaw

GA-00930 1975-06-02 De Waarheid rel A

Vrijlating Indonesische vrouwen geëist

Release of Indonesian women demanded: Women's Action Day 1975 protest letter

De Waarheid, 2 Jun 1975, p. 1: report that the NVB's Women's Action Day '75 sent a protest letter to the Suharto regime (copy to minister Pronk) demanding release of four Gerwani women: life imprisonment demanded against Sulami, secretary of Gerwani, and 20 years each against Sri Ambar Rukmijati, Sudjinah and Suharti H

GA-00933 1975-06-21 De Waarheid rel A

Blad Vrouwenbeweging hekelt proces in Indonesië: NVB eist vrijheid Gerwani-vrouwen (volledige krantenpagina, 21-6-1975)

NVB demands freedom for Gerwani women (full newspaper page, 21 Jun 1975)

Full De Waarheid page, 21 Jun 1975 (p. 5), mostly unrelated (Mokum 700 festival, EEC steel output, farmers' protests). The relevant article reports the NVB's call to protest the Jakarta trial of four Gerwani women: life demanded for Sulami (about 50), 20 years for Suharti Harsono, Sri Ambar Rukmijati and Sudjinah, accu

GA-03664 2003-02 TAPOL Bulletin no. 169/170 rel A

TAPOL Bulletin No. 169/170, January/February 2003

TAPOL Bulletin No. 169/170, Jan/Feb 2003: obituary of Sulami (Gerwani deputy secretary-general)

TAPOL Bulletin no. 169/170 (Jan/Feb 2003), with Carmel Budiardjo's obituary of Sulami (pp. 13-15). Born Sragen 15 Aug 1926, she joined Gerwis (Gerwani from 1951), became East Java executive member (1954) and second deputy secretary-general (1957), attended WIDF meetings, and was deputy secretary-general in 1965. Arrest

GA-02289 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Beban Trauma Peristiwa 1965 (Mengapa Umi Sardjono tak terbuka mengungkap riwayat Gerwani)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: The burden of trauma of 1965 (why Umi Sardjono was not open about Gerwani's history)

Tempo feature (2 Oct 2021, Dini Pramita and Bagja Hidayat) on why Gerwani chair Umi Sardjono (Suharti Sumodiwiryo) said little after 13 years in Bukit Duri (to 1978). Drawn from Ita Nadia, Ruth Indiah Rahayu, others: she wept at accounts of rape and Sudjinah's injury, 'it is my responsibility'; friendships with Fransis