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GA-01444 1955-01-26 Harian Rakjat rel A

Maisuri simbol perlawanan terhadap kawin paksa (Harian Rakjat, 26 Januari 1955, hlm. 3)

Maisuri, symbol of resistance to forced marriage (Harian Rakjat, 26 January 1955)

Harian Rakjat, 26 Jan 1955, p. 3: women's-page feature 'Maisuri, symbol of resistance to forced marriage', signed Ny. Suwarti (DPP Gerwani). Maisuri refused a marriage imposed by her family to an older man (Kyai Ahmad) who already had wives; the piece uses the case to argue against forced marriage and for a marriage la

GA-00454 1956-04-17 Bintang Timur rel A

Bintang Timur, 17 April 1956: Umi Sardjono di DPR soal kasus Maisuri

Umi Sardjono in the DPR on the Maisuri case (Bintang Timur, 17 April 1956)

Bintang Timur (Jakarta daily), 17 April 1956, full issue. The Gerwani-relevant item is a report on the DPR debate on the Ali Sastroamidjojo cabinet programme, in which Umi Sardjono (Fraksi Pembangunan) objects to a verdict punishing Maisuri for refusing a forced customary marriage and demands abolition of feudal remnan

GA-02814 1960 Sulami rel A licensed

Kartini (Sulami, 1960)

Sulami's 1960 piece 'Kartini' for the anniversary of R.A. Kartini: biography (b. 1879, child-marriage custom, letters, schooling of girls, marriage as Regent's wife), Kartini as symbol for Indonesian women's national and emancipation struggle, quoting Sukarno's 1959 lecture. Paired with a parallel profile of Egyptian f

GA-02195 1960-02 Suara Tani rel B

Suara Tani, Februari 1960: Menyambut Sidang Biro GWDS (WIDF) di Jakarta

Suara Tani, February 1960: Welcoming the WIDF Bureau session in Jakarta

Suara Tani (BTI organ), Feb 1960 (vol. XI no. 2), OCR noisy. Covers BTI protest over price rises, sugar-cane land rents, Khrushchev's coming visit and the Bandung peace conference. On p. 3 an article welcomes the WIDF Bureau session in Jakarta (late Jan 1960), stressing peasant women's backwardness, citing Sri Darnings

GA-02805 1961 Maasje Siwi rel A licensed

The dream of an Indonesian peasant woman (Seminar Nasional Wanita Tani)

The dream of an Indonesian peasant woman: National Seminar on Peasant Women (1961)

1961 article by Maasje Siwi on Gerwani's first National Seminar on Peasant Women's Problems. Describes peasant hardships (debt, child marriage, easy divorce, exclusion from village office) and demands: land reform and women's land ownership, crop-sharing law, abolition of colonial ban on women village heads. Features d