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GA-00797 1948-07-09 De Waarheid rel C

Internationale vrouwententoonstelling te Parijs (International women's exhibition in Paris)

International women's exhibition in Paris with Dutch stand on Indonesia

De Waarheid report (9 Jul 1948) on the WIDF international women's exhibition in Paris (12 Jun-18 Jul, 42 countries). The Dutch Women's Movement stand had a section on Indonesia, opposing colonial war; the article contrasts Western capitalism with Eastern Europe, China and the USSR. No Indonesian women's group is named.

GA-00799 1948-10-01 De Waarheid rel C

Vrouwen als gij allen (Women like you all)

Women like you all: introducing the WIDF to Dutch readers

De Waarheid piece (1 Oct 1948) presenting the 80-million-member WIDF to Dutch readers as ordinary women including those in Indonesia, and quoting its appeal to women to demand arms reduction and ban atomic weapons. Indonesia appears only in a list of countries.

GA-00805 1949-04-20 De Waarheid rel C

318 gedelegeerden konden niet komen (318 delegates could not come: World Peace Congress, Paris)

318 delegates could not come: World Peace Congress opens in Paris

De Waarheid report (20 Apr 1949) on the opening of the World Peace Congress in Paris, where Joliot-Curie greeted delegations from China, Spain, Greece, Vietnam and Indonesia, protested French refusal of 380 visas and noted women's role in peace. WIDF chair Cotton sat on the platform. No Indonesian delegate or Gerwis/Ge

GA-00814 1949-12-09 De Waarheid rel C

Voor het eerst in Peking: Tentoonstelling over het leven van de vrouwen in Azië (Exhibition on the life of women in Asia)

First time in Peking: exhibition on the life of women in Asia

Short De Waarheid report (9 Dec 1949) on the exhibition on the life and struggle of Asian women and workers opened in Peking for the WIDF Asian Women's Conference, with material from the USSR, Mongolia, China, Korea, Vietnam, India, Indonesia and Iran. Speakers Li Dequan and Vaillant-Couturier stressed solidarity and n

GA-00698 1954-09-30 De Nieuwsgier rel C

De Indonesische delegaties in China (Indonesian delegations in China)

Indonesian delegations in China, including a women's delegation

Short De Nieuwsgier report (30 Sept 1954, p. 2) on the arrival in Peking of an Indonesian delegation and a separate women's delegation, invited by the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs and the All-China Democratic Women's Federation. Mrs. S. Pudjobuntoro spoke for the women's delegation; Gerwani is not name

GA-01251 1957-02-08 Java-Bode rel C

Expositie Aziatische mode (Exposition of Asian fashion)

Exposition of Asian fashion

Java-Bode, 8 February 1957, p. 2: report on an exposition of national costumes and music by Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asian women's organisations at the Plaza Hotel, New York; Indonesian participants included Sukanti Surjotjondro, Nelly Kawilarang and Sulami Sujud. A second snippet about a clandestine bank on Bangka is

GA-00479 1959-11-06 Algemeen Dagblad rel C

Moskou's opmars (Kemajuan Moskow)

Moscow's advance

Algemeen Dagblad (1959-11-06, p. 7): second part of Allen W. Dulles's essay on Soviet and Chinese economic and subversive penetration of developing countries. Lists Indonesia among arms recipients and names the WIDF, with trade-union, youth and peace bodies, as a communist 'front organisation'. Cold War framing context

GA-01268 1967-05-24 Leeuwarder Courant rel C

Achter het nieuws (Behind the news: Chinese in Indonesia)

Behind the news: Chinese in Indonesia

Leeuwarder Courant, 24 May 1967, p. 1: front-page background column on the persecution of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia after 1965, citing camps in Medan, roundups in Borneo, closed Chinese schools in East Java, and the mass killings of communists and suspects in which Chinese families died. The tone is stereotyping. Ger