Communist Blueprint for Asia (Western Mail, 18 August 1949)
Western Mail (Perth), 18 August 1949, p. 10, Denis Warner's anti-communist article 'Communist Blueprint for Asia'. It claims the February 1948 Calcutta Southeast Asia Youth and Students' Conference carried Moscow's instructions for revolt to Australia, Malaya, Burma, Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam. Indonesia's dele
'Peace' demonstration in Medan
De Locomotief, 14 Aug 1950 (Aneta): about 5,000 attend a Medan peace-committee rally, mainly plantation, peasant and pedicab unions, with anti-American banners. Speakers include Tuti Rukmi for 'Indonesian women'. The resolution urges Indonesia not to join the 'imperialist war' in Korea and calls for a ban on atomic wea
Indonesian women journalists visit Japan (Asahi Shimbun, 6 October 1955)
Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 6 Oct 1955, p. 3) item on Indonesian women journalists visiting Japan. OCR is nearly entirely scrambled; only 'Indonesia' and part of the name Herawati Diah are legible. Summary based on title; no Gerwani content visible.
The lives of Indonesian women (Asahi Shimbun, 12 October 1955)
Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 12 Oct 1955, p. 2) article on the lives of Indonesian women, apparently built around Herawati Diah's visit. OCR is largely scrambled; legible fragments include Jakarta, women's organisations, subsidy, Paris and school. Gerwani is not identifiable.
No. 6: Youth and women's liberation, Indonesian delegate, 'I saw Japan' (Asahi Shimbun, 14 November 1957)
Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo morning edition, 14 Nov 1957, p. 6), instalment 6 of 'I saw Japan' by an Indonesian delegate on youth and women's liberation. OCR is nearly unreadable (only Jakarta, women, Asia, Japan, China, Italy, France, Indonesian legible); summary is mostly from the title, and no Gerwani mention is visible.
Afro-Asian women's conference, Ceylon (Asahi Shimbun, 16 February 1958)
Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo morning edition, 16 Feb 1958, p. 3): article on Afro-Asian women's conference; Ceylon. 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 is visible.
Kowani Delegation in North Korea
Fragmentary Api Kartini item (1960s) closing a statement by the Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani) delegation after visiting North Korea, thanking hosts, praising Korean revolutionary culture and socialist construction, and backing Korean reunification and the 'Crush Malaysia' campaign. Signatories listed include Suh
Aidit in Pyongyang: Indonesian-Korean friendship (snippet)
Snippet-only Renmin Ribao extract (14 Sept 1963, p. 3) from Aidit's Pyongyang rally speech. It gives PKI-affiliated mass organisation figures, including 1.5 million women in Gerwani, described as the progressive women's organisation, and 1.5 million in Pemuda Rakyat. The full text is GA-01902.
D.N. Aidit, 'Indonesian-Korean friendship will last forever': Pyongyang speech, 11 September 1963
Full text (Renmin Ribao, 14 Sept 1963, p. 3, via Xinhua/KCNA) of D.N. Aidit's 11 September speech at a Pyongyang welcome rally: praise of North Korea, an outline of the Indonesian revolution, Nasakom, West Irian, the anti-US line and attacks on 'modern revisionism'. Gerwani appears once in the tally of PKI-aligned orga
Api Kartini (late 1964) article on Sukarno's 'The Era of Confrontation' speech at the Second Non-Aligned Summit, Cairo (5-10 October 1964), applied to Indonesia: confrontation with Malaysia and with the 'seven village devils' (landlords) in the interest of peasant women. Also carries a Kowani delegation's impressions o
Indonesia's woman Minister for Social Affairs visits Japan
Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo morning edition, 15 Apr 1964, p. 9): article on a visit to Japan by Indonesia's woman Minister for Social Affairs, headlined as remarkable advance of women. 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 i
Women advancing into nation-building: Indonesia's woman Minister for Social Affairs
Mainichi Shimbun (18 Apr 1964): article on the Indonesian woman Minister for Social Affairs and women entering nation-building; the article itself is unreadable (page text is about the postal service). The OCR is almost entirely scrambled, so this summary rests on the title and a few legible words; no named Gerwani mem
Cable on Pak Seong-cheol's Discussion with Ambassador Jiao Ruoyu on Indonesia and Vietnam, 14 Dec 1965
Cable from the Chinese Embassy in North Korea, 14 Dec 1965, reporting a banquet conversation between DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Seong-cheol and Ambassador Jiao Ruoyu (Wilson Center Digital Archive; trans. Charles Kraus). Pak calls Sukarno still a leftist advocating Nasakom with high prestige, and warns that guerrilla wa
Kim Il Sung and the Chinese Delegation, 28-29 Oct 1965
Cable by Yang Yong and Hao Deqing, 29 Oct 1965, recording Kim Il Sung's 28 Oct meeting with a Chinese People's Delegation (Wilson Center; trans. Jeffrey Wang and Charles Kraus). Kim covers Korean war preparations, Japanese militarism and Asia's revolutionary role; on Indonesia he calls the 30 September incident 'necess
Garajszki Report on Hungarian-Korean Solidarity Meeting and DPRK Views of the PKI, 14 Nov 1967
Hungarian Foreign Ministry information report by Istvan Garajszki, 14 Nov 1967, on Hungarian-Korean solidarity meetings (Wilson Center Digital Archive; trans. Balazs Szalontai). A North Korean embassy secretary, Choe Guk-hyeon, says the PKI erred by exposing all its leaders and members and by relying on Sukarno after t
Dynamics of Tokyo-Djakarta Interactions, 1951-1966 (Nishihara, 1973)
Masashi Nishihara's 1973 Michigan PhD thesis on Japanese-Indonesian relations 1951-1966: war reparations, the Kishi-Sukarno settlement, lobbies, the Malaysia confrontation and the 'Sukarno groups'. Gerwani appears only once (pp. 285-286): the Nasution-Suharto group's claim that Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and SOBSI trained
Stop support for the Suharto regime
De Waarheid, 21 Jun 1975, p. 5: boxed text 'Stop support for the Suharto regime' from the NVB monthly 'Vrouwen': the IGGI group (US, Japan, West Germany, Netherlands) gives up to 880 million dollars yearly to the regime; its April meeting was postponed amid confusion over Indochina; Suharto fears liberation victories.