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GA-01332 1988-02-19 NRC Handelsblad rel C

Oost is Oost en West is West (East is East and West is West)

East is East and West is West (Kousbroek)

Rudy Kousbroek's column 'Oost is Oost en West is West' in NRC Handelsblad (19 Feb 1988): an anecdote of a Minahasan surveyor in Maluku shocked by his atheism, with remarks on Indonesian attitudes to feminism and childlessness. Ends as the surveyor asks whether they are communists. No mention of Gerwani; background colo

GA-00972 1988-05-07 De Waarheid rel A

Sociale systeem (over de Indonesische vrouwenbeweging na 1949)

Social system (on the Indonesian women's movement after 1949)

De Waarheid text (7 May 1988, p.6), apparently a speech/interview by an unnamed Indonesian woman, on the Indonesian women's movement. She says Gerwani, with about 1.5 million members after 1949, gave the movement its mass character defending peasant and working women, while Perwari led on polygamy; after 1965 Gerwani w