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GA-01061 1954-10-06 Het Parool rel B

Parlement over tweede huwelijk van Soekarno

Parliament on Sukarno's second marriage

Het Parool report (6 Oct 1954, p.108): parliament asks the government to clarify its stand on President Sukarno's second marriage, as the controversy causes the first rift in the year-old PNI-PKI coalition. A woman MP of the socialist fraction submitted the request, and parliament received a petition from women's movem

GA-01063 1955-11-11 Het Parool rel C

P.N.I. (analyse van de verkiezingsuitslag 1955)

P.N.I. (analysis of the 1955 election result)

Het Parool column 'P.N.I.' (11 Nov 1955) analysing the 1955 Indonesian election result: the PNI did well despite corruption; Sukarno's second marriage (Hartini) had been thought to hurt him as it moved many prominent Indonesian women to militant counter-action, but the fight against polygamy was a concern of a handful

GA-01064 1961-10-23 Het Parool rel C

Socialisten in Rome bijeen (Internationale raad van socialistische vrouwen)

Socialists meet in Rome (International Council of Socialist Women)

Short Het Parool report (23 Oct 1961) from Rome on meetings preceding the Socialist International congress: exiled East European socialists protest Russification, and the International Council of Socialist Women elects Dutch Rita de Bruyn-Ouboter president, succeeding Mary Sutherland. Indonesian delegate Djoesma Said c

GA-01071 1995-10-06 Het Parool rel A

Suharto's angst voor de stem van Gerwani (over het onderzoek van Saskia Wieringa)

Suharto's fear of the voice of Gerwani (on Saskia Wieringa's research)

De Vrijdag (Het Parool, 6 Oct 1995) article by Hanneke de Wit on Saskia Wieringa's Amsterdam PhD on the Indonesian women's movement. It recounts the 1965 press claims that Gerwani girls castrated and blinded generals and danced naked, which Wieringa calls lies; autopsies showed the generals intact. It details forced 'c