Soviet Woman, 28 Feb 1954, p. 30: article by Rantijem (SOBSI National Council member), written after her Nov 1953 USSR tour with a trade union delegation, on Indonesian women's conditions. Describes legal bars to women's state and foreign-firm work, unequal pay (4.30 rupees/day vs 155.49 subsistence minimum), no matern
Izvestiia, 11 Apr 1954. TASS, citing Harian Rakyat: when a Soviet women's delegation led by A. Kholopova reached Surakarta (Solo), thousands of Gerwani members, students and housewives met it in a demonstration of friendship; the delegation received dozens of invitations in Surakarta and Yogyakarta.
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
Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1955, p. 36 (fragment): 'Visit to Indonesia' by film-makers V. Mikosha and I. Sokolnikov, describing two months filming a documentary in Indonesia. Includes filming the welcome at Jakarta airfield for an Indonesian women's delegation returning from the USSR. Umi Sardjono, listed in metadata, does n
Page 4 of Pravda (8 March 1957), International Women's Day, carrying a statement signed 'T. Sulami, member of the national 8 March Committee of the Republic of Indonesia'. She describes Indonesian women's life and struggle, sixteen women elected to parliament and 33 to the Constituent Assembly, rising schooling, anti-c
Izvestiia, 18 Jan 1959, p. 5, 'Brief news': the mass women's organisation Gerwani sent letters to the USA, USSR and British embassies in Jakarta demanding an immediate end to nuclear tests. Page context notes a London anti-nuclear conference.
Page 5 of Pravda (Moscow, 6 May 1959) with a piece headed 'The Indonesian people on guard for peace', signed 'Sudjina, Djakarta' (identified by the sweep as Sudjinah). It reports the Indonesian Peace Supporters Committee: Prof. Purbodiningrat's statements, an April special session demanding the dissolution of SEATO, su
Izvestiia, 2 Mar 1960, p. 3, conclusion of a report on Khrushchev's farewell meeting in Jakarta with Indonesian representatives; Gerwani leaders are listed among those present with SOBSI, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat, Lekra. Speeches by Njono, Buntaran Martoatmodjo and peace activist Setiadi (probably not Gerwani); Khrushchev's
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
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, 31 May 1964: Ludmila Balakhovskaya's 'Our visit to Indonesia', on a two-week Soviet Women's Committee tour for Mother's Day (22 Dec) at Hurustiati Subandrio's invitation (Kowani). Notes 30 women among 300 MPs, creches and women's clubs, and that Gerwani runs 1,400 kindergartens (50+ children each), planni
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
Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1965, p. 18: Nina Voronina's 'Till we meet again', on a three-week USSR tour (Moscow, Riga, Leningrad, Dushanbe) by a five-woman KOWANI delegation: Basariah Simorangkir, Sidi Moehammad (WANI), Ani Boesiri, Ratjih Natawidjaja, Mimi Soeparmi, with Hurustiati Subandrio in Moscow. Left a message in the
Izvestiia, 19 Oct 1965, p. 1, TASS: Jakarta military administrator Maj. Gen. Umar Wirahadikusumah banned the PKI and affiliates in Jakarta, naming Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani, BTI, CGMI, HSI, Lekra and others; executives must report to police or army or be punished under emergency law.
Izvestiia, 4 Nov 1965, p. 2, international commentary: Antara reports the Congress of Indonesian Women (Kowani) expelled the CPI's women's organisation Gerwani; also Supreme Court dismissals, 57 PKI deputies suspended (Lukman, Njoto), about 3,000 arrested near Yogyakarta, and books of 'implicated' authors removed from
Pravda front page, 17 Nov 1965: TASS dispatch 'The situation in Indonesia'. Reports 62 MPs removed after the 30 September Movement, 315 arrests in Jepara, and that Brig. Gen. Busiri temporarily banned the PKI, SOBSI, Gerwani ('Gervani') and BTI in the Moluccas.
Izvestiia, 22 Nov 1965, p. 1, TASS: Sukarno at Bogor condemns journalists spreading 'fables' about 'atrocities' of the 30 September movement, orders a civil-service purge under Subandrio; a second item gives arrests (1,600 in South Kalimantan), citing Antara that all those arrested are members of PKI, Gerwani, Pemuda R
Gudok, 23 Nov 1965, p. 4, TASS dispatch from Jakarta: military and right-wing forces continue the anti-communist campaign, with arrest figures (1,600 in South Kalimantan; 1,630 in Wonogiri, 820 in Sragen, 711 in Boyolali, over 2,200 in Klaten), citing Antara that all those arrested are members of PKI, Gerwani, Pemuda R
Pravda front page, 19 Feb 1967 (No. 50), full-page capture of the same issue. The only Indonesia item is the short TASS report 'Arrests': PKI CC candidate Anwar Nasution, Pemuda Rakyat leaders, CC member Rachmat and three members of Gerwani's central leadership were arrested in Jakarta. Other articles concern Turkey, S
Izvestiia, 15 Aug 1968, p. 2, TASS citing Antara: about 850 members of the banned PKI arrested in East Java, including six Central Committee members; the chairwoman of Gerwani has also been arrested. A fragment 'Sukatno' follows the sentence but cannot reliably be attached to her.
Pravda, 30 Oct 1990, p. 5: full page with V. Shurygin's (Pravda-TASS) article 'Indonesia: strokes to a tragedy of 35 years ago', a Soviet correspondent's retrospective on the 1965 coup, Sukarno's choice at Halim, up to 500,000 communists killed, and slander-driven anti-communist propaganda. Gerwani appears once, listed