Harian Rakjat, 30 June 1952: Suwarti returns from the Vienna conference
Harian Rakjat, Jakarta, 30 June 1952 (full issue; p. 1 relevant). Reports that Suwarti, MP, sent by Gerwis in April to the Vienna conference on children's rights, returned to Jakarta; she describes contacts with WIDF, contrasts socialist and capitalist countries, announces the Peking peace conference, and complains tha
CIA intelligence survey of the PKI's history, structure and front organisations, May 1955, before the September 1955 elections. Section III.E (report pp. 49-50) profiles Gerwani: founded 1950 as Gerwis, renamed Gerwani at the March 1954 congress, 25,000+ members, S.K. Trimurti general chairman and Umi Sardjono chairman
Theft by Dutch imperialism: one cow per farmer per year (Aidit speaks in Bandung)
Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1955-05-31, p. 2): PKI election rally at Tegallega, Bandung, with tens of thousands present. Candidates Eddy Abdurrachman and Mrs. Suwarti open, she stressing women's interests; D.N. Aidit criticises post-RTC governments and the Madiun executions of Musso and Sjarifuddin without trial. Archive
Foreign investment: communist interpellation in Parliament
Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1955-12-27, p. 2): the communist parliamentary faction (Sakirman, Tjugito, Mrs. Suwarti, Achmad Sumadi, Sujono, S. Utarjo) submits a written interpellation on foreign capital investment, arguing the RTC agreements restored monopoly capital, citing colonial-era profits, and asking eight detaile
Constituent Assembly Member Profile: Suwarti Bintang Suradi, Scanned Form
Scan of the original Konstituante membership form (c. 1956) for Suwarti Bintang Suradi, 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-00135.
Constituent Assembly Member Profile: Suwarti Bintang Suradi
Konstituante.Net member profile (transcribed) of Suwarti Bintang Suradi, PKI member no. 15 of the Constituent Assembly. Born 1 August 1914 in Ngawi, Kweekschool and AMS educated, living in Jakarta. KNIP working committee member in Surakarta and nationally 1945-50, member of the RIS parliament and the unitary Parliament
Election committee
Short Algemeen Indisch Dagblad item (1956-11-20, p. 2): the Constituent Assembly forms a five-member committee to arrange the election of its chairman: Slamet (PNI), Ali Imbido (NU), Muh. Hidajat (Masyumi), Mayrengsay (Partai Katolik) and Mrs. Suwarti (PKI), identified in the archive as Suwarti Bintang Suradi.
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
One OCR page (p. 17) of a US Joint Publications Research Service translation, Political Affairs in Indonesia (1960), a numbered list of names with occupations. Entry 188 is Mrs Suwarti Bintang Suradi, 'Former Member of Constituency Djakarta'; entry 189 is Mrs S.D. Susanto, same description; entry 153 is Mrs Sutinah Suk
Antara item (Djakarta, 7 July 1965) in the Indonesian Consulate General's 'News and Views' bulletin: President Sukarno, by Decision No. 159/1965, appointed 12 new members to the Consultative Body for National Development Planning (MUPPENAS), among them Mrs Suwarti Bintang Suradi Siregar and Mrs Kartini Gatot Sukandar.