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GA-00319 1954-05-22 Townsville Daily Bulletin rel B

Advertising (Townsville Daily Bulletin, 22 Mei 1954)

Advertising: Mrs Dickie on the Indonesian Women's Congress, Townsville

Townsville Daily Bulletin classified-advertising page, 22 May 1954, p. 7: mostly unrelated ads. A Building Workers' Industrial Union notice invites members and families to a film display and address on Monday 24 May by Mrs Dickie, wife of Rev. Dickie, 'just returned from the Indonesian Women's Congress'. Also a politic

GA-00634 1954-07-29 De Locomotief rel A

Conferentie Gerwani (Gerwani conference, Salatiga)

Gerwani conference in Salatiga on implementing congress decisions

De Locomotief, 29 July 1954: the Salatiga branch of Gerwani, with Central Java provincial delegates and BTI, SOBSI and women's organisation representatives, discusses implementing the latest congress decisions. Sub-branches will be set up in every subdistrict capital. Gerwani fields no candidates in the elections but i

GA-00521 1954-11-30 Algemeen Indisch Dagblad rel A

Congres „Gerwani”: Dwanghuwelijken dienen in modern Indonesië te worden afgeschaft (Kongres Gerwani: kawin paksa harus dihapus)

Gerwani congress: forced marriages must be abolished in modern Indonesia

Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1954-11-30, p. 2): two-day congress of Gerwani's Bandung branch ('formerly Gerwis') sends sympathy to Maisoeri, a sixteen-year-old in South Sumatra jailed for refusing a forced marriage to a sixty-year-old, and calls for abolishing forced marriages. It also demands bans on 'modern dances' and