Inaugural issue of Api Kartini (June 1959), published by Jajasan Melati with Maasje Siwi as editor in chief. Built around Hari Kartini: Kartini's writings and socialist reading, profiles, and contributions from S.K. Trimurti, Rukiah Kertapati and Sulami.
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 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.
Double issue (Nov–Dec 1964) centred on the DPP Gerwani National Seminar on Housewives, 4–6 Nov 1964 (20 of 23 provinces), classifying housewives by class and consciousness, with addresses by Subandrio, Hurustiati Subandrio and Rukiah Kertapati.
Api Kartini (1964) article 'Racism in the Land of Dollars' on discrimination against 19 million African Americans (Birmingham bombing, voting restrictions), condemning also the 10 May 1963 anti-Chinese racist riots in West Java. The page continues with a short piece on a May book fair at Gedung Pemuda and encouraging w
FBIS-monitored VNA Domestic Service text (6 Apr 1965) on tens of thousands of Korean, Indonesian, Venezuelan, Indian and Japanese volunteers for South Vietnam. Key Indonesian item: on 4 April about 100 women volunteers led by Mrs Umi Sardjono, president of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani), went to the DRV Emba
TAPOL Bulletin No. 46 (July 1981). A note, 'A Hundred Minus Six', reports that a four-volume Indonesian short-story anthology had to drop six writers deemed involved in G30S/PKI, among them S. Rukiah (Rukiah Kertapati), alongside Pramoedya. The same issue covers the banning of Pramoedya's Buru novels. Gerwani is not me
Tempo feature (1 May 2021) on publisher Ultimus (Bandung) reissuing works by woman writer S. Rukiah, banned after 1965 because she was jailed as a Lekra activist: 'Kejatuhan dan Hati' and 'Tandus' (2017), children's book 'Pak Supi' (2018), and nine more children's titles found in libraries. Gerwani is not mentioned.