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GA-02436 1953-01-03 rel C licensed

Women's Demand (FBIS, 3 Jan 1953)

FBIS, 3 January 1953: Women's demand (GPII women's branch congress)

One-line FBIS item (3 Jan 1953): the women's branch of the Indonesian Islamic Youth League (GPII) held a congress in Jakarta and demanded vocational training for Indonesian women and a government physical-education vocational school for women. Background on Muslim women's organisations contemporary with Gerwis.

GA-01034 1953-10-28 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel A

Tegen het gedwongen huwelijk (Gerwis-conferentie, oktober 1953)

Against forced marriage (Gerwis conference, October 1953)

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (28 Oct 1953, p.2): at its 25 October conference the Jakarta women's organisation Gerwis resolved on 'Menteng 31' (supporting its return to youth but asking the government to rehouse the girls living there) and on a forced marriage of a 60-year-old man to a 14-year-old schoolgirl, expressing