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GA-02341 1947-08-10 Sunday Worker rel A licensed

Indonesian Minister of Labor is a woman, Mrs. S. K. Trimurti

Sunday Worker, 10 August 1947, p. 8: Indonesian Minister of Labor is a woman, Mrs S.K. Trimurti

Sunday Worker, 10 Aug 1947, p. 8: the OCR contains only a crossword puzzle (clues and grid), so the catalogued article on S. K. Trimurti as Indonesia's woman Minister of Labor cannot be read or checked. No Gerwani/Gerwis content is verifiable.

GA-01487 1949-12-31 China Weekly Review rel C licensed

Women in Colonial Countries: Delegates to the Asian Women's Conference in Peking report

Women in Colonial Countries: delegates to the Asian Women's Conference in Peking report (China Weekly Review, 1949)

China Weekly Review, 31 Dec 1949: report of delegates' speeches at the Asian Women's Conference in Peking (WIDF-aligned) on women in colonial and semi-colonial countries (Africa, Middle East, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Vietnam, France, China, Korea, Madagascar, Burma). The Indonesian delegate Lillah Suripno traces

GA-02342 1950-01-01 Sunday Worker rel B licensed

Asian Women Tell the U.S.A. (Asian Women's Conference, Peking)

Sunday Worker, 1 January 1950, p. 2: Asian women tell the U.S.A. (Asian Women's Conference, Peking)

Sunday Worker, 1 Jan 1950, p. 2: page with several items; the relevant article, datelined Peking, reports the Asian Women's Conference where women leaders from 15 Asian countries, including Indonesia, Burma and India, pledged struggle against imperialism. Delegates said conditions in Burma and Indonesia were alike unde

GA-02324 1950-04-17 Daily Worker rel C licensed

I Saw Mao Tse-tung: A New World Voyage (Delegate's report on the Conference of the Women of Asia, Peking)

Daily Worker, 17 April 1950: I saw Mao Tse-tung - delegate's report on the Conference of the Women of Asia, Peking

Page 5 of the Daily Worker (New York, 17 Apr 1950) carrying Betty Millard's first article on the Peking Conference of the Women of Asia, organised by the WIDF. She describes the train journey from Moscow with delegates including a Dutch woman active against arms shipments to Indonesia. OCR is garbled and the article co

GA-02343 1951-03-04 Sunday Worker rel C licensed

Shall Not Happen Again! Save Lives of McGee and Trenton Six (catalogued as: Indonesian people where women sit in their councils)

Sunday Worker, 4 March 1951, p. 4: Shall not happen again - save lives of McGee and the Trenton Six

Sunday Worker, 4 March 1951, p. 4: Harry Raymond on the execution of the Martinsville Seven in Virginia and the pending case of Willie McGee in Mississippi, framed as 'legal lynching'. Despite the catalogue title, the text contains no Indonesia, Gerwani or women's-council content.

GA-02325 1952-05-27 Daily Worker rel B licensed

20 Nations Pick Delegates for Asia Peace Parley (list naming president of Indonesian Women's Movement)

Daily Worker, 27 May 1952: 20 nations pick delegates for Asia peace parley

Page 4 of the Daily Worker (New York, 27 May 1952) with a roundup of 20 countries naming delegates for the Asian Peace Conference preparatory meeting in Peking. The Indonesian list includes a member of Parliament named as president of the Indonesian Women's Movement ('Olpuwarti' in garbled OCR), alongside SOBSI, Lekra-

GA-02344 1953-06-07 Sunday Worker rel B licensed

Issues absorb Women's World Meet (WIDF Copenhagen Congress)

Sunday Worker, 7 June 1953, p. 4: Issues absorb Women's World Meet (WIDF Copenhagen Congress)

Sunday Worker, 7 June 1953, p. 4: report on the opening of the WIDF World Congress of Women in Copenhagen, with debates on peace and children and delegates from many countries, including Burma, Japan and the Philippines. Indonesia appears only in a speech listing the Dutch in Indonesia among colonial powers; no Indones

GA-02345 1953-06-28 Sunday Worker rel B licensed

World Congress of Women, Copenhagen (Indonesian delegates)

Sunday Worker, 28 June 1953, p. 12: World Congress of Women, Copenhagen (Indonesian delegates)

Sunday Worker, 28 June 1953, p. 12: account of the WIDF World Congress of Women in Copenhagen, describing delegates in the lobby (including 'exquisite Indonesians') and calls for peace. A moving scene has Indonesian and Dutch women embracing after a Dutch delegate said her people fought for liberty everywhere; Vietnam,

GA-02326 1955-04-26 Daily Worker rel C licensed

Bandung Notebook: The Spirit in the Streets (Ralph Parker from Bandung)

Daily Worker, 26 April 1955: Bandung notebook - the spirit in the streets (Ralph Parker)

Page 2 of the Daily Worker (New York, 26 Apr 1955) with Ralph Parker's 'Bandung Notebook' on the Asian-African Conference: Indonesian hosts, students, land and independence hopes. A separate item reports 27 doctors' protest over Claudia Jones's imprisonment, citing a WIDF report. Indonesian women appear only in a fragm

GA-02327 1955-05-13 Daily Worker rel B licensed

Perwari, Indonesia's Largest Women's Organization, Joins Asian Women Leaders (Assail Polygamy)

Daily Worker, 13 May 1955: Perwari, Indonesia's largest women's organisation, joins Asian women leaders (assail polygamy

Page 8 of the Daily Worker (New York, 13 May 1955). A short Djakarta dispatch (12 May) reports that the central committee of Perwari, described as Indonesia's largest women's organisation, joined Pakistani women in criticising Prime Minister Mohammed Ali's second marriage, and recalls Perwari's protest the previous yea

GA-02346 1955-07-31 Sunday Worker rel C licensed

Lausanne Congress Sends Message to Mothers of All Nations (World Congress of Mothers)

Sunday Worker, 31 July 1955, p. 11: Lausanne congress sends message to mothers of all nations

Sunday Worker, 31 July 1955, p. 11: Federated Press report on the first World Congress of Mothers at Lausanne (7-10 July 1955), more than 1,000 women from 68 countries, which issued a manifesto calling for the defence of children against war and for banning atomic weapons. The OCR is partly garbled and shares the page

GA-02328 1956-07-24 Daily Worker rel C licensed

Women Unionists from 42 Lands Hold Conference in Budapest (Indonesian delegate on equal pay)

Daily Worker, 24 July 1956: Women unionists from 42 lands hold conference in Budapest

Page 4 of the Daily Worker (New York, 24 Jul 1956) reporting a Budapest conference of women trade unionists from 42 countries called by the WFTU, which demanded equal pay and opportunities and paid maternity leave. An unnamed delegate from Indonesia is cited on women workers being treated as cheap labour. Gerwani is no

GA-02333 1969-01-11 Daily World rel C licensed

Women's political rights worldwide, including Indonesia illiteracy figures

Daily World, 11 January 1969: Women's political rights worldwide

Daily World, 11 Jan 1969, p. M-5: feature on women's political rights worldwide, covering suffrage dates, education and the work-family dilemma. Indonesia appears only in passing, with the figure that some years earlier 42% of Indonesian men and 70% of women were illiterate, and as a country granting women equal status

GA-02329 1969-06-17 Daily World rel B licensed

Women's Congress Cheers Plea for a Free Vietnam (WIDF Helsinki congress; women tortured in Indonesian prisons)

Daily World, 17 June 1969: Women's congress cheers plea for a free Vietnam (WIDF Helsinki congress)

Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 17 Jun 1969) with a Beatrice Johnson report on the WIDF World Congress of Women in Helsinki. Vietnamese NLF delegate Nguyen Thi Binh appeals for US withdrawal, and the congress hears that hundreds of women are being tortured in camps and prisons in Greece, Indonesia, Spain and else

GA-02334 1969-07-08 Daily World rel C licensed

Indonesia now a boom for foreign firms, banks

Daily World, 8 July 1969: Indonesia now a boom for foreign firms, banks

Daily World, 8 July 1969, p. 10: William J. Pomeroy (London) and the Foreign Department on British 'withdrawal' from bases in Singapore and Malaysia, and on Indonesia's opening to foreign capital after the 1967 investment law and the 1965 massacre of up to 566,000 Communists. Lists US oil firms and banks returning and

GA-02335 1974-04-09 Daily World rel C licensed

Asian scholars panel, political prisoners in Philippines and Indonesia

Daily World, 9 April 1974: Asian scholars panel on political prisoners in the Philippines and Indonesia

Daily World, 9 April 1974, p. 3: page with several items; the Indonesia-related part is a short report that an Association of Asian Scholars panel on martial law in the Philippines (3 April; Kerkvliet, Stauffer, Manglapus) also raised political prisoners in the Philippines and Indonesia. Other articles cover the Vietna

GA-02330 1975-05-16 Daily World rel B licensed

Connecticut Towns Hear Peace Delegates (WILPF-WIDF disarmament seminar)

Daily World, 16 May 1975: Connecticut towns hear peace delegates (WILPF-WIDF seminar)

Page 9 of the Daily World (New York, 16 May 1975) with a Connecticut report on delegates to a WILPF-WIDF disarmament seminar. They included British woman Carmel Budiardjo, who was in Djakarta in 1965 and imprisoned for three years while her husband remained jailed after ten years; she says over a million were killed an

GA-02331 1975-07-02 Daily World rel C licensed

Mexico Conferees Tie Women's Freedom to Economic Problems (Women under capitalism; Indonesian delegate)

Daily World, 2 July 1975: Mexico conferees tie women's freedom to economic problems

Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 2 Jul 1975) with a special report from the UN International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City. Delegates from Italy, Fiji, Norway and Indonesia describe discrimination against women workers under capitalism, including lower pay and unemployment; tensions between US feminists a

GA-02336 1975-07-03 Daily World rel C licensed

WFTU condemns jailings of Indonesian workers, SOBSI ban

Daily World, 3 July 1975: WFTU condemns jailings of Indonesian workers and SOBSI ban

Daily World, 3 July 1975, p. 5: page of mixed US labour news; the Indonesia item (Prague) reports the WFTU condemning the imprisonment of thousands of political prisoners in Indonesian military compounds and demanding that the ban on SOBSI be lifted, calling both violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

GA-02332 1975-07-26 Daily World rel A licensed

Women leaders jailed by Indonesian junta

Daily World, 26 July 1975: Women leaders jailed by Indonesian junta

Daily World (New York), 26 July 1975, p. 9: Foreign Department report that a Jakarta court on 16 June 1975 sentenced four women after a five-month trial: Sulami (general secretary of the Indonesian Women's Movement, 20 years), Sudjinah (magazine editor, 18), Sri Ambar (SOBSI women's section, 15) and Suharti Alimarkaban

GA-02337 1975-11-04 Daily World rel C licensed

PKI leader dies in Nusakambangan camp, 100,000 political prisoners

Daily World, 4 November 1975: PKI leader dies in Nusakambangan camp; 100,000 political prisoners

Daily World, 4 Nov 1975, p. 10: among short news items, a report that Zain Nasution, 50, PKI central committee member and former secretary of its foreign affairs commission, died on 3 October 1975 in Nusakambangan camp after ten years' imprisonment. The PKI estimates at least 100,000 political prisoners face 'slow deat

GA-02338 1977-12-21 Daily World rel C licensed

Indonesia prisoner release, PKI statement

Daily World, 21 December 1977: Indonesia prisoner release, PKI statement

Daily World, 21 Dec 1977, p. 8: short item that the PKI analysed the Indonesian government's release of 10,000 Communist political prisoners, saying perhaps 60,000-70,000 remain jailed, many since 1965, at least 15,000 died in Palembang and Surabaya camps, and new arrests roughly offset releases. Surrounded by unrelate

GA-02339 1979-10-11 Daily World rel C licensed

2000 Indonesian political prisoners released

Daily World, 11 October 1979: 2,000 Indonesian political prisoners released

Daily World, 11 Oct 1979, p. 7: world-news column; the Indonesia item reports that 2,000 political prisoners were released from 'special camps' in Jakarta-reported news, most held since 1965-66, with another 2,000 from Buru to follow. Indonesian democratic sources call it positive but note ex-prisoners lose civil right

GA-02340 1986-11-04 People's Daily World rel C licensed

Indonesia executes Communists

People's Daily World, 4 November 1986: Indonesia executes communists

People's Daily World, 4 Nov 1986, p. 7-A: short item on worldwide protests against the execution of nine Communist political prisoners in Indonesia under Suharto, several jailed for years; a PKI representative links the executions to the 45% rupiah devaluation. Readers urged to write to Suharto. Surrounded by Haiti and