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GA-02682 2007 rel A

Gender-Based Crimes Against Humanity: Women's Human Rights Monitoring Report (Komnas Perempuan, 2007)

Komnas Perempuan's 2007 report on gender-based crimes against humanity in 1965: 122 testimonies, an account of Gerwani's history and the 1965 press campaign behind the Lubang Buaya slander, and catalogue of rape, sexual slavery, detention and Buru. Key official source on women's experience.

GA-03007 2013 rel A

Sejarah Gerwis dan Munculnya Gerwani (detikNews, 2013)

History of Gerwis and the emergence of Gerwani (detikNews, 2013)

detikNews feature (2013) on Gerwis's founding on 4 June 1950 by six organisations (Rupindo, Persatuan Wanita Sedar, Istri Sedar, Gerwindo, Wanita Madura, PPRI) and founders Trimurti, Salawati Daud, Umi Sardjono, Tris Metty and Sri Panggihan, with I.G.A.A. Ratih. Concise account of origins.

GA-02873 2020 rel A

Feminismus als Klassenfrage, Teil I (Ita Fatia Nadia, südostasien 3/2020)

Feminism as a Class Question, Part I (Ita Fatia Nadia, 2020)

Part I of Ita Fatia Nadia's essay (südostasien 3/2020) tracing the women's movement 1912-65 to Gerwani: peasant and plantation work, marriage and land reform, WIDF ties and 1.7 million members. Notes Kowani in the WIDF 1946-49 and Indonesian women at the WIDF secretariat. In German.