Only workers; youth organisations merge into a new front
Short items in De Vrije Pers (11 Apr 1950): a clarification about banknote distribution for workers, and a merger of Front Pemuda Indonesia and eight youth groups into Gerakan Pemuda Rakyat, with A.L. Fanggidaej as one of the secretaries. Gerwis/Gerwani is not mentioned; the Fanggidaej named here is not identified as F
Notice of thanks from Mulyono and Sutanti after their wedding
De Locomotief, 18 Nov 1952: Indonesian-language thank-you notice by the Milono family and by newlyweds Mulyono and Sutanti after their wedding on 13 Nov 1952, plus a subscription form. No connection to Gerwani; the bride Sutanti is not shown to be Soetanti Aidit. False hit.
World women's congress in Denmark
Short item, Java-Bode, 31 Jan 1953, p. 2: the Gerwis central board receives word from the WIDF about the world women's congress in Denmark in June 1953, which will stay aloof from politics, faith or skin colour and concern itself solely with women's and people's interests.
Causerie: Mrs Moedigdo to talk on the general elections
One-sentence De Vrije Pers notice (23 Apr 1953): Mrs. Moedigdo (Mudigdio), PKI member of parliament, would give a talk on the general elections in the city garden on Sunday morning. Gerwis is not mentioned.
Surakarta: Gerwis meets (Central Java working conference)
De Locomotief, 11 July 1953: one-line notice from Surakarta that the Central Java Commissariat of Gerwis will hold a working conference from 27 July (end date garbled in source), with delegates from all of Central Java.
Advertising (Morning Bulletin, 28 May 1954): Union of Australian Women Tea with Mrs Dickie
Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld), 28 May 1954, p. 10, a full page of classified and general advertisements (jobs, vehicles, property, notices). The only relevant item is a Union of Australian Women invitation to an afternoon tea in Rockhampton's Red Cross Rooms, where Mrs Dickie, wife of Rev. Dickie, 'just returned
Saturday agenda in Surabaya: Gerwani reception
Daily events agenda in De Vrije Pers (27 Aug 1954) for Surabaya on Saturday 28 August 1954. The only item of interest is a Gerwani reception at 19:00 in the Yayasan Tani Kebudayaan building (Stadstuin); the rest are dances, sports and a church service.
Saturday agenda in Surabaya: Gerwani reception (second copy)
Daily events agenda in De Vrije Pers (28 Aug 1954) for Surabaya on Saturday 28 August 1954. The only item of interest is a Gerwani reception at 19:00 in the Yayasan Tani Kebudayaan building (Stadstuin); the rest are dances, sports and a church service.
WIDF congress to open next May
Mainichi Shimbun (Tokyo morning edition, 22 Dec 1957, p. 5): article on a report that the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) congress will open the following May. The OCR is almost entirely scrambled, so this summary rests on the title and a few legible words; no named Gerwani member or Gerwani mention
Youth club Chi Chi: Amnesty evening on Indonesia
Nieuwe Winterswijksche Courant, 12 January 1979, p. 9: youth-club notice of an information evening with Amnesty International Winterswijk, screening a film on political prisoners in Indonesia. It states that after six generals were murdered in October 1965, the army killed half a million people in four months and arres
Cezanne (Trouw corrections column)
Trouw correction column (4 Oct 1995): a wrong phone number for the Cézanne exhibition, and a note that the 30 September article on the 1965 coup drew on Saskia Wieringa's research, due for her Amsterdam doctorate on 6 October, under-acknowledged. Gives her thesis title: The Politicization of Gender Relations in Indones