S.K. Trimurti (Gerwis) on National Awakening Day, 20 May (Harian Rakjat, 20 May 1952)
Harian Rakjat, 20 May 1952. A front-page item quotes S.K. Trimurti of Gerwis telling the paper that 20 May should truly become a day of unity in the struggle for independence; she recalls the 1948 Yogyakarta commemoration and the unrealised National Program, blaming organisational fragmentation. The issue also covers S
Harian Rakjat, 13 May 1954, p. 1
Harian Rakjat, 13 Mei 1954, hlm. 1. Front page dominated by Geneva Conference news; the only woman-centred item shows a left woman using press-ethics bodies to defend her family against press accusations.
Gerwani central board (80,000 members) supports the WIDF at ECOSOC (Bintang Timur, 29 May 1954)
Bintang Timur (Jakarta daily), 29 May 1954, p. 2 of a multi-article issue; only one item concerns Gerwani. Its central board (DPP Gerwani), speaking for 80,000 members, protests to the UN against ECOSOC's removal of the WIDF from consultative status, citing a letter from WIDF president Eugenie Cotton, and demands reins
Harian Rakjat, 21 May 1955, p. 2
Harian Rakjat, 21 Mei 1955, hlm. 2. News page including World Peace Council prizes for 1954 (Joris Ivens) and election-sign vandalism; no Gerwis or Gerwani item.
Gerwani statement on abrogating the KMB; women at the SOBSI national council (Bintang Timur, 23 February 1956)
Front page (with pp. 2-4) of Bintang Timur, Jakarta, 23 Feb 1956. The DPP Gerwani issues a statement, after a meeting with Central Java, West Java and Jakarta delegates, demanding full unilateral abrogation of the KMB agreements. Women delegates Setiati Surasto (Sarbupri), Sri Ambar, Tuti, Rantiyem and Emmy Purwati att
Gerwani endorses prosecutor's demand against Jungschlager (Bintang Timur, 28 February 1956)
Front page (with pp. 2-4) of Bintang Timur, Jakarta, 28 Feb 1956, dominated by the KMB abrogation debate and the Masyumi/PNI-NU stand-off. A short item reports Gerwani welcoming and endorsing the prosecutor's demand against the Dutch defendant Jungschlager, calling it commensurate with his crimes. Other items cover the
Umi Sardjono joins the Development faction in the new DPR (Bintang Timur, 4 April 1956)
Front page (with pp. 2-4) of Bintang Timur, Jakarta, 4 Apr 1956. A short item on the new DPR's factions lists Umi Sardjono (Gerwani chair) among the members of the 'Pembangunan' (Development) faction, with Suprapto, Abulhayat, Runturambi, Supardi and Sujono. Headline news: government to seek full KMB abrogation and tak
1958 WIDF note: Indonesian women write that the country faces rebellion backed by SEATO and the US (the PRRI/Permesta crisis), and that women join the struggle shoulder to shoulder with men. Gerwani sets up public kitchens, collects food and magazines for the front, runs first aid; in rebel-held West Sumatra its leader
Gerwani DPP (650,000 members): dissolve SEATO (Bintang Timur, 24 March 1958)
Bintang Timur, 24 March 1958, p. 1 (during the PRRI rebellion). Front-page statement of the Gerwani national leadership (DPP), said to represent 650,000 members, condemning US and SEATO intervention and the US Seventh Fleet's movements, and demanding that SEATO be dissolved ('Bubarkan SEATO'), in an open letter. Same p
Gerwani Central Sumatra: statement against the PRRI rebels (Bintang Timur, 31 March 1958)
Bintang Timur, 31 March 1958, p. 1 (during the PRRI rebellion). Reports a statement by the Gerwani Sumatera Tengah leadership: women and people of Central Sumatra cannot be fooled again by the 'traitors' (PRRI, proclaimed 14 February 1958), stand firmly behind the central government, the army chief and President Sukarn
Gerwani DPP protests to the US and Taiwan governments (Bintang Timur, 6 May 1958)
Bintang Timur, 6 May 1958, p. 1 (after APRI's recapture of West Sumatran towns). Reports the Gerwani DPP's protest to the US and Taiwan governments over their intervention supporting Permesta/PRRI, demanding they stop interference, respect Indonesia's sovereignty and Asia-Africa, and appealing to American women to pres
Api Kartini No. 7, Year 1, December 1959
Seventh issue of Api Kartini (Dec 1959), centred on Hari Ibu (22 December). Includes an article on the peace movement against nuclear testing, S. Djin's report on the November 1959 Latin American women's congress in Santiago, and an interview on food and clothing supply.
7 November and the Women of the Soviet Union
Api Kartini (1959) article for 7 November (Russian Revolution anniversary) on the women of the Soviet Union. Reports a gathering in Jakarta where Soviet Supreme Soviet member Zaripova, visiting Indonesia, described women's advancement since 1917 (366 women of 1,378 deputies; 85% of health workers women) and the Soviet
German Women's Hearts Refuse to Be Divided
Api Kartini (1959) travel-style article by S. Jin on divided Berlin and German women's campaign against atomic armament and remilitarisation. Cites arrests and petitions in West Germany (Renate Kruse, Renate Riemeck, Elisabeth Heimpel, Hamburg and Dortmund women's groups), East German women's views, and WIDF telegrams;
Welcoming National Day
Api Kartini (1959) editorial column 'Celebrating National Day': after Indonesia's 17 August, urges readers to welcome the national days of friendly states upholding the Bandung principles. Features the Democratic Republic of Vietnam's 2 September National Day with a poem by Ho Chi Minh. Solidarity propaganda with Asian
Latin American Women Defend Life
Api Kartini article (1959) by S. Djin on Latin American women's movements: the first Latin American Women's Congress in Santiago, Chile (November 1959), electricity-rate protests in Argentina, equal-pay demands in Chile, the Cuban women's conference, and anti-nuclear petitions in Colombia. Compares them to Asian-Africa
Api Kartini No. 3, Year 2, March 1960
March 1960 issue devoted to the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day and the Copenhagen International Women's Congress (21–24 April 1960); interviews with delegation figures Arudji Kartawinata, Ratu Aminah Hidajat and Hurustiati Subandrio.
Kowani Delegation in North Korea
Fragmentary Api Kartini item (1960s) closing a statement by the Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani) delegation after visiting North Korea, thanking hosts, praising Korean revolutionary culture and socialist construction, and backing Korean reunification and the 'Crush Malaysia' campaign. Signatories listed include Suh
The 15th Anniversary of the August Revolution
Api Kartini (Aug-Sept 1960) report on the 15th anniversary of the August Revolution: summarises Sukarno's 17 August address to the DPR-GR plenary and speech (Manipol-USDEK, unity of Nasakom groups, landreform, retooling, firm line on Irian Barat). Also prints editorial replies to readers in Lombok and Central Java. Con
The Atom Bomb Continues to Kill After Fifteen Years (Api Kartini, 1960)
Article in Api Kartini (1960), in Indonesian, 'The atomic bomb continues to kill after fifteen years'. A Japanese mother tells of her daughter Hiroko Kayiyama, who died of leukaemia in April 1960 aged 17 after Hiroshima radiation. It notes Japanese women delegates at the WIDF assembly in Copenhagen (21 April 1960) and
Api Kartini No. 1, Year 3, January 1961
January 1961 issue with a report on the First Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo (14–23 Jan 1961) and Iwanah Prijono's speech, plus East German textiles, Cuban women fighters and household columns.
Api Kartini No. 11, Year 3, November 1961
November 1961 issue: a report on torture of women political prisoners in South Vietnam, a Heroes Day essay linking Indonesia to Algeria, Angola, Congo and Cuba, and peace letters between Ratu Aminah Hidajat and Nina Popova.
Api Kartini No. 2, Year 3, February 1961
February 1961 issue tied to Sukarno's speech at the Indonesian Women's Congress (6 Feb 1961); a cluster of pieces mourning the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, with editorial calls for land reform and socialist society.
Api Kartini No. 3, Year 3, March 1961
March 1961 issue for International Women's Day: Sudjinah on the Algerian war and WIDF solidarity, Sugiarti Siswadi's open letter to Pauline Lumumba, and features on revolutionary couples (Lumumbas, Fuciks, Rosenbergs).
Api Kartini No. 6, Year 3, June 1961
June 1961 issue (second anniversary, 5000 copies): Indian women honouring Rameshwari Nehru's Lenin Peace Prize, a profile of WIDF magazine Women of the Whole World and its Afro-Asian congress coverage.
Api Kartini No. 8, Year 3, August 1961
August 1961 issue for the 16th independence anniversary: slogan against feudalism and imperialism, Sukarno's Hari Ibu speech that women need socialism, praise of Soviet women doctors and China's communes, Moscow Film Festival.
Two Women Leaders Exchange Letters, One Wish: Lasting Peace
Api Kartini (1961) exchange of open letters on peace between Ny. A. Hidayat, a leader of the Indonesian peace committee, and Nina Popova of the Soviet women's movement, about nuclear tests, disarmament and the Soviet space flights of Gagarin and Titov. The page also carries a mother's letter to school-age children. Pea
To Die for the Homeland Is to Live (Cuban Women)
Api Kartini (early 1961) article on Cuban women in the revolution: the women's fighting unit led by Isabel Rieg (named after Mariana Grajales), Vilma Espin's description of rural hunger under Batista, and the August 1960 founding of the Federation of Cuban Women under Espin. Page also carries a humorous 'Mak Ompreng' c
Letter from New York: American Youth and Peace
Api Kartini (1961) item 'Letter from New York': a young American woman's account (Bettina Aptheker, per the editors' note) of growing American youth peace activism, with marches, vigils and demonstrations from 1960 to August 1961 and the formation of a single national peace organisation. Printed by the editors in Indon
Hell on Earth
Api Kartini item (1961), a review of Nguyen Xuan Tram's book 'Hell on Earth' on South Vietnamese women prisoners under Ngo Dinh Diem, including mothers jailed with infants and tortured. It ends by condemning planned US military intervention (General Maxwell Taylor's mission) as a threat to peace in Southeast Asia. Gerw