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GA-01459 1953-04-30 Harian Rakjat rel C

Harian Rakjat, 30 April 1953, hlm. 8

Harian Rakjat, 30 April 1953, p. 8

Harian Rakjat, 30 April 1953, hlm. 8. Last page of the May Day issue: protest at bans on parts of the May Day programme, army budget, and reports of violence against women framed as moral decay and polygamy.

GA-01377 1954-10-07 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel B

Soekarno's huwelijk (Sukarno's marriage)

Sukarno's marriage

Tubantia/Twentsch Dagblad brief (7 Oct 1954): the Indonesian parliament asks the government's view on Sukarno's second marriage and, with communists voting against, agrees to consider a women's movement petition to deprive Muslim men of the right to marry more than one wife. Relevant to the polygamy campaign Gerwani an

GA-01231 1955-05-31 Java-Bode rel A

P.K.I. bestaat 35 jaar (PKI is 35 years old)

PKI is 35 years old

Java-Bode, 31 May 1955, p. 2: report on the PKI's 35th anniversary rally on Merdeka Square. D.N. Aidit urged the Dutch to leave and stressed Muslim-Nationalist-Communist unity; Umi Sardjono, Gerwani general chair, spoke sharply against surviving feudalism and large landownership; judge Astrawinata explained his PKI can

GA-01146 1955-06-08 Indische Courant Voor Nederland rel A

PKI bestaat 35 jaar (The PKI is 35 years old)

The PKI is 35 years old

Indische Courant voor Nederland, 8 Jun 1955, p. 2: report on the PKI's 35th-anniversary rally at Merdeka Square, Jakarta. Umi Sardjono, general chairwoman of Gerwani, attacks feudalism and large landownership; Aidit speaks on Muslim-nationalist-communist unity and Dutch profits, with slogans against Dutch and landlords

GA-00454 1956-04-17 Bintang Timur rel A

Bintang Timur, 17 April 1956: Umi Sardjono di DPR soal kasus Maisuri

Umi Sardjono in the DPR on the Maisuri case (Bintang Timur, 17 April 1956)

Bintang Timur (Jakarta daily), 17 April 1956, full issue. The Gerwani-relevant item is a report on the DPR debate on the Ali Sastroamidjojo cabinet programme, in which Umi Sardjono (Fraksi Pembangunan) objects to a verdict punishing Maisuri for refusing a forced customary marriage and demands abolition of feudal remnan

GA-00544 1956-04-20 Algemeen Indisch Dagblad rel A

Umi Sardjono

Short Algemeen Indisch Dagblad item (1956-04-20, p. 3): Mrs. Umi Sardjono (Pembangunan faction) again raises marriage in parliament, hoping for a legal marriage regulation soon and a closer study of adat law in the various regions of Indonesia.

GA-01551 1957-01-16 Asahi Shimbun rel B licensed

（上）婦人運動インドネシアの婦人たち (Part 1: The women's movement, the women of Indonesia)

Part 1: The women's movement, the women of Indonesia (Asahi Shimbun, 16 January 1957)

Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 16 Jan 1957, p. 2), part 1 of a series on the women's movement among Indonesian women, apparently by a Japanese woman writer who visited. OCR is badly scrambled; fragments mention Sumatra, Jakarta, women's organisations, possibly polygamy, and New Delhi. No Gerwani name legible.