'Peace' demonstration in Medan
De Locomotief, 14 Aug 1950 (Aneta): about 5,000 attend a Medan peace-committee rally, mainly plantation, peasant and pedicab unions, with anti-American banners. Speakers include Tuti Rukmi for 'Indonesian women'. The resolution urges Indonesia not to join the 'imperialist war' in Korea and calls for a ban on atomic wea
News in brief (Roosevelt to address women's congress)
'News in brief' column, Provinciale Overijsselsche en Zwolsche Courant (14 Mar 1952). The only Indonesia item says Eleanor Roosevelt will reach Jakarta on 25 March, be received by Sukarno on 26 March and address the congress of an Indonesian women's movement (not named). Context for the Gerwis letter to Roosevelt.
Exposition of Asian fashion
Java-Bode, 8 February 1957, p. 2: report on an exposition of national costumes and music by Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asian women's organisations at the Plaza Hotel, New York; Indonesian participants included Sukanti Surjotjondro, Nelly Kawilarang and Sulami Sujud. A second snippet about a clandestine bank on Bangka is