Constituent Assembly Member Profile: Mrs Setiati Surasto, Scanned Form
Scan of the original Konstituante membership form (c. 1956) for Nj. Setiati Surasto, PKI member of the Constituent Assembly. The OCR is almost entirely noise; only form headings (birth, education, career) are partly legible and no entries can be read. Her biography is legible in the companion transcription GA-00131.
List of Konstituante members, including Setiati Surasto and Suwardiningsih (Bintang Timur, 17 July 1956)
Bintang Timur, 17 July 1956, p. 3 (four-page issue). Continues the published lists of candidates/elected members for the Konstituante by party; among the PKI-and-allies list (OCR columns interleaved with NU, Masyumi and regional lists) appear Setiati Surasto and Suwardiningsih, alongside Nyoto and others. Remainder is
Harian Rakjat, 8 March 1957: Setiati Surasto on menstrual leave
Harian Rakjat issue of 8 March 1957 (International Women's Day), noisy OCR. Page 3 carries Setiati Surasto's women's-day article defending menstrual leave (cuti haid) for women workers under Labour Law 1951/1948. Elsewhere: a Gerwani branch (Blitar) reported gaining members, a Gerwani public lecture is announced, and t
US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1958): National Conference of Communist Women
US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1958) analysis of the First National Conference of Communist Women (Jakarta, 26-31 May 1958). Aidit's address presents the 'Communist woman' and calls for a wider Gerwani; Suharti Suwarto (Gerwani second deputy chair) and Sundari report on women's groups, only 100,000 women PKI membe
Page (seq. 329) of the US State Department 'Monthly Indonesian Press Survey' (nos. 45-58, 1959-60) listing the PKI fraction in the Constituent Assembly, including Mrs Setiati Surasto, Mrs Suwarti Bintang Suradi, Mrs S.D. Susanto, Miss Suwardiningsih and Mrs Djaenah Amir Sjarifuddin, plus the fraction's executive. It al
Almanac of State Institutions and Parties (1961)
Government reference almanac issued by the Department of Information (Departemen Penerangan), June 1961, on the institutions of Guided Democracy: MPRS, DPR-GR, DPAS, Depernas, Bapekan, Front Nasional and recognised parties, with decrees, membership lists and party statutes. Gerwani appears only once, as the women's del
The Communist Party of Indonesia 1951-1961: A Decade of the Aidit Leadership (Hindley, 1961)
Donald Hindley's 1961 ANU PhD thesis on the Indonesian Communist Party under the Aidit leadership, 1951-1961, covering PKI strategy, party-building, finances, mass organisations and elections. Section 'Women' (pp. 422-448, esp. 'Gerwani', pp. 428-441) traces Gerwis from its founding on 4 June 1950 (about 500 members) t
JPRS (1964): New candidate members of the PKI Central Committee, including Setiati Surasto
Short JPRS extract (1964) from Harian Rakjat translations listing changes to the PKI Central Committee: new candidate members include Mrs Setiati Surasto, Mrs Sundari (Dundari Ar.) and Mrs Umi Sardjono, plus replacements on the Control and Verification Commissions (Mrs Mudjiatun) and new Secretariat members (Njono, Rus
Airgram A-398: List of PKI Leaders and Their Whereabouts, 17 Dec 1965
US Embassy airgram A-398, 17 Dec 1965, listing PKI leadership bodies after May 1965 and fugitive leaders' whereabouts. Places Suharti (Gerwani chair, head of the PKI women's department), Umi Sardjono, Setiati Surasto and Mudjiatun in PKI organs; no women in the whereabouts list.
Indonesian protests abroad against stance of Soviet leaders
De Waarheid, 4 Nov 1967, p. 3: report that Indonesian representatives abroad of SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat and Gerwani protested Soviet leaders' stance towards the Suharto regime. SOBSI secretary Setiati Surasto condemned a Soviet union delegation's January 1967 visit; Gerwani rejected a 'hypocritical' WIDF resolution in Eas
The line of the Communist Party of Indonesia explained: interview with Setiati Surasto (Indonesian Tribune, Tirana, 1974
JPRS translation of an Indonesian Tribune (Tirana) 1974 report of Radio Tirana interview with Setiati Surasto, leader of the PKI delegation to Albania's 30th liberation anniversary. She describes Indonesia as a US neo-colony under Suharto's 'fascist' regime, cites 28 million unemployed and about 100,000 political priso