De Waarheid, 7 Jul 1951, p. 3: short report that a second group of Indonesian participants left Jakarta on 2 July for the Third World Youth Festival in Berlin, 38 in all. Among them is Darmini, representing the women's movement, with painter Sudjojono and union and youth delegates. Farewell speeches came from PKI, SOBS
Issue 14 of Wanita Sedar, fortnightly organ of Gerwis (25 July 1951). Covers preparation for the first Gerwis congress (57 branches, WIDF links), the Indonesian delegation to the Berlin youth festival including three Gerwis delegates, women in Czechoslovakia, and organisational news.
WIDF Executive Committee message (1952) calling women worldwide to prepare for the Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna, 5 December 1952, and to demand an end to the Korean war, arms reduction, banning of atomic and bacteriological weapons, and a Pact of Peace. Signatories include Eugénie Cotton and others; Darmin
Neues Deutschland, 29 March 1952, p. 2: report 'Großberliner Schülerkonferenz' on a Berlin schoolchildren's conference organised by the German Society for the Protection of Children, with WIDF representatives present. The Indonesian kindergarten teacher Darmini, with Jeanette Turner of the USA, described the catastroph
Harian Rakjat, 8 Apr 1952, p.3-4: Gerwis, led by Umi Sardjono (PB Gerwis), hosts a reception in Jakarta for organisations and officials, including Health Ministry's Dr Syulianti, to prepare a national committee for child defence; Trimurti speaks on child labour and schooling. Gerwis delegates Suwarti and Darmini (alrea
Izvestiia, 22 Jul 1952, p. 4. TASS reports from the WIDF executive committee session in Bucharest: Iranian rapporteur Elie Sharmini on women's equal rights and cooperation with trade unions; debate speakers included Dharmini (Indonesia), whose remarks are not given. Illustrates Indonesian women's early WIDF participati
Pravda p. 3, 22 July 1952: TASS reports from the 13th session of the WIDF executive committee in Bucharest and a mass women's meeting addressed by Eugenie Cotton. Darmini (Indonesia) is listed among debaters on Carmen Santi's report on child defence; national committees reportedly formed in Indonesia. Content of Darmin
Harian Rakjat, 26 Jul 1952, p. 4: report of a lecture in Jakarta by Suwarti, chair of Gerwis (PB Gerwis) and MP, on the Vienna Congress for the Defence of Children (April 1952) and the Peking Asia-Pacific peace preparatory conference (May 1952), both attended by her. Darmini also attended Vienna; student Amran attended
Short 1954 item in WIDF's 'Women Write to Us From Everywhere' by Darmini, Assistant General Secretary of Gerwani. She reports the Gerwani congress as a success, with WIDF representative Monica Felton present and foreign delegates (Dutch, Australian, Soviet) touring the country, a first in Indonesian women's movement hi
WIDF 1954 profile of Miss Darmini of GERWIS, reporting to a WIDF meeting. Membership rose from 6,000 at the 1951 first congress to 37,000 by 1953 and about 600,000 prior to the March 1954 second congress (as printed); the Union of Railway Workers' Wives affiliated. She describes campaigns on women's rights, maternity l
Bintang Timur (Jakarta daily), 25 May 1956, full issue. A short item on page 2, 'Delegasi wanita tiba', reports that Indonesian women delegates to a GWDS (WIDF) meeting in China, named as Nyonya Priyino, Ridwan and Suharti, had returned to Jakarta, while fellow delegate Darmini had not yet returned and was invited to a
Bintang Timur, 5 July 1956, p. 1 (four-page issue). Reports that the Indonesian women workers' delegation returning from the world women workers' conference in Budapest was refused entry/visas in Thailand on the way back via Copenhagen and told to continue flying or be jailed. Ten delegates are named from trade unions,
Pravda, 5 Sept 1956 (No. 249), partial issue (pp. 1, 4, 6, machine-translated): TASS and correspondents' reports on President Sukarno's tour of the USSR (Sverdlovsk, Tashkent) and Indonesian reactions. On p. 6 O. Chechetkina quotes Darmini, 'one of the leaders of the mass women's organization Gerwani', hailing the visi
Keyword-hit excerpt of Pravda, No. 249, 5 Sept 1956, report by correspondent O. Chechetkina (Jakarta, 4 Sept) on Indonesian reactions to President Sukarno's visit to the USSR. D. N. Aidit and Darmini, 'one of the leaders of the mass women's organization Gerwani', hail it as the first visit of Indonesia's president to t
US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1959-60) extracts. A review of the new monthly Api Kartini, published by Yayasan Melati and headed by Maasje Siwi, lists its editors (S. Asijah, Darmini, Parjani Pradono, S.K. Trimurti, Rukiah Kertapati and others). Parliamentary notes list Umi Sardjono (functional group for women) a
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.
De Waarheid, 21 Dec 1962, p. 3: full text of a letter from the Gerwani delegation at the WIDF Council session in Berlin, Suharti Suwarto, Darmini Sudirdjo and Sulami, to Dutch objector Tom Clardij, thanking him on behalf of Gerwani's 1,250,000 members, supporting Dutch women's demand for his release from prison and sen
Renmin Ribao, 14 Jun 1963, p. 4 (Xinhua): Gerwani vice-chairwoman Mrs Mudigdio and Mrs Damini, Central Committee member and secretary of its secretariat, arrive in Beijing on 8 June at the All-China Women's Federation's invitation. Brief arrival notice.
Renmin Ribao, 14 Jun 1963, p. 4 (Xinhua): Gerwani vice-chairwoman Mrs Mudigdio and Mrs Damini, Central Committee member and secretary of its secretariat, arrive in Beijing on 8 June at the All-China Women's Federation's invitation. Brief arrival notice.
FBIS Daily Report page (HathiTrust, Chicom International Affairs, dated 19 June 1963 on the page) with several Peking items. Relevant entry: Mrs Mudikdio (Mudigdio), vice chairman of the Gerwani central council, and Mrs Darmini, secretariat member, ended their China visit and flew home 17 June, seen off by Li Te-chuan
One-item FBIS note (17 Jun 1963, Xinhua): Mrs Mudikdio (Mudigdio), vice chairman of the central council of Gerwani, and Mrs Darmini of its secretariat ended their China visit and left Peking for Indonesia on 17 June, seen off by Li Te-chuan, vice president of the Chinese National Women's Federation. Same item as in the
Renmin Ribao, 18 Jun 1963, p. 4 (Xinhua): Gerwani vice-chairwoman Mrs Mudigdio and Central Committee member Mrs Damini leave Beijing by air on 17 June after concluding their visit to China. Brief departure notice.
Renmin Ribao, 18 Jun 1963, p. 4 (Xinhua): Gerwani vice-chairwoman Mrs Mudigdio and Central Committee member Mrs Damini leave Beijing by air on 17 June after concluding their visit to China. Brief departure notice.
Tempo English infographic 'Women Warriors' (4 Oct 2021, text by Hussein Abri Dongoran) summarising Gerwani: founded 1954 from Gerwis (1950), disbanded 1965 after New Order accusations. It lists the central board (Umi Sardjono chair, Mudikdio, Suharti, S.K. Trimurti, Sulami Djojoprawiro, Sudjinah and others), the jasmin