Izvestiia, 20 Jun 1954. Travel notes by a member of the Soviet women's delegation (Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women) touring Indonesia: Jakarta, Boyolali rally where Gerwani representatives and the woman who invited them questioned the guests about the USSR, plantation conditions near Bandung, Round Table agreeme
1955 WIDF magazine feature 'For Friendship' with statements by Anusuya Gyanchand (India), Utami Suryadarma (Indonesia) and Che Zahara (Malaya) for the World Congress of Mothers. Suryadarma, a vice-president of the Preparatory Committee and of the Foundation for the Well-being of Indonesian Children, links Bandung to pe
Pravda, 5 August 1955, No. 217, page 6, supplied as a Claude machine translation of the Indonesia item. A TASS dispatch from Jakarta on the cabinet crisis (Harahap of Masjumi asked to form a government) says Harian Rakjat printed dozens of telegrams from SOBSI, BTI, the women's organisation Gerwani and Pemuda Rakjat in
De Waarheid, 17 Aug 1955, p. 3: Cor Geugjes's article for the Republic's tenth anniversary, covering Dutch colonial violence, the Bandung Conference, the Ali Sastroamidjojo government's fall and replacement by a Masjumi-PSI cabinet under Harahap, and the PKI's election platform. It lists Gerwani only as 'the strong wom
Pravda, 2 Mar 1960 (No. 62), pp. 1-3, 5 (machine-translated): coverage of the end of Khrushchev's 12-day visit to Indonesia (farewell speeches by Khrushchev and Sukarno; Calcutta stop). Pp. 2-3 report a farewell meeting on 29 Feb with delegates of mass organisations, naming 'the Indonesian women's movement (Gerwani)' a
Sovetskaia Kirgiziia, 3 Mar 1960, p. 2: TASS coverage of Khrushchev's 12-day Indonesia visit: toasts with Sukarno, Khrushchev's farewell at Kemayoran, and crowds. On the last day Khrushchev received delegates of mass organisations including SOBSI, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani; Njono spoke. No Gerwani speaker is named
Renmin Ribao, 15 Jul 1960, p. 5 (Xinhua, Jakarta): over 15,000 ethnic Chinese hold a memorial in Cimahi, West Java, for Ye Jinniang and Yang Mumei, killed 3 July by West Java military during forced removals. Gerwani's Central Council and its Jakarta, Bandung, West and East Java and Cimahi branches sent representatives.
Renmin Ribao, 15 Jul 1960, p. 5 (Xinhua, Jakarta): over 15,000 ethnic Chinese hold a memorial in Cimahi, West Java, for Ye Jinniang and Yang Mumei, killed 3 July by West Java military during forced removals. Gerwani's Central Council and its Jakarta, Bandung, West and East Java and Cimahi branches sent representatives.
Renmin Ribao, 21 Jul 1960, p. 5 (Xinhua, Jakarta): ceremony at Tanjung Priok on 18 July sending home the ashes of Yang Mumei and Ye Jinniang, ethnic Chinese women killed in West Java, with their families and 700 poor or displaced Chinese (Presidential Decree No. 10). Gerwani, SOBSI, BTI, Baperki's women's department an
Renmin Ribao, 21 Jul 1960, p. 5 (Xinhua, Jakarta): ceremony at Tanjung Priok on 18 July sending home the ashes of Yang Mumei and Ye Jinniang, ethnic Chinese women killed in West Java, with their families and 700 poor or displaced Chinese (Presidential Decree No. 10). Gerwani, SOBSI, BTI, Baperki's women's department an
Moscow News (English), 25 April 1964, pp. 13-16 section. Includes a travelogue by a Soviet cultural-delegation member on Indonesia (new Jakarta monuments, Soviet-built stadium, 100,000 students, Lekra in Bandung) and a short item on a Moscow meeting marking Kartini's birth, run by the USSR-Indonesia Society's Women's C
Soviet Woman, 30 Nov 1964, p. 11-12: Victor Tsoppi's 'Indonesia's Independence Day' (with a separate Algerian woman's story). Madame Manai Sofian and Soviet women, incl. Nina Orlova, report on attending the 10th Congress of Kowani (Federation of Indonesian Women's Organizations) at Jakarta's stadium, invited by Hurusti
Berliner Zeitung, 17 December 1964, p. 2: continuation of the joint declaration 'Bedeutsame Erklärung der Repräsentanten beider Parlamente' at the end of a GDR Volkskammer delegation's visit to Indonesia. It lists meetings with Sukarno, ministers and leaders, and records 'cordial encounters' with scientists and represe
Xinhua dispatches in Renmin Ribao (17 Apr 1965, p. 5) on the Bandung Conference tenth-anniversary celebration in Jakarta: Ganis Harsono announces 37 attending countries, delegations arrive, and BTI (8.5 million) and Gerwani welcome Zhou Enlai's visit. The Gerwani Central Council, speaking for 'three million members', s