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GA-01229 1955-02-10 Java-Bode rel A

Aanvullende verklaringen (Supplementary statements, Maisuri affair)

Supplementary statements (Maisuri affair)

Java-Bode, 10 February 1955, p. 2: report on supplementary testimony in the Maisuri forced-marriage case before the customary court in South Sumatra, showing the marriage was arranged by Hadji Achmad, his wife, her father and an intermediary without Maisuri's consent. It notes Gerwani and other women's organisations ma

GA-00643 1955-02-12 De Locomotief rel A

Verklaringen (Statements in the Maisuri case)

Statements in the Maisuri forced-marriage case

De Locomotief, 12 Feb 1955: follow-up on the Maisuri forced-marriage case. Supplementary testimony shows Maisuri never agreed to marry Hadji Achmad and the match was arranged without her and her mother. The case became a national question through Gerwani and other women's organisations, which see it as breaking the con