FBIS-monitored Chinese Home Service excerpts (6 Jun 1952): press interview with Indonesian delegates Suwarti and Surjonegoro in Peking. They described Indonesian livelihood under foreign capital, the land question, US aid and the rubber embargo (prices down about 70%), and said over 600,000 Indonesians signed a request
FBIS-monitored Xinhua item (15 Oct 1956): Sukarno and party left Kunming for Rangoon at the end of his China visit; the Indonesian women's delegation to China left for home with him. Over 10,000 people saw him off; he thanked the Chinese government and people. Background context for the women's delegation.
FBIS-monitored Moscow text (8 Mar 1960) of Yekaterina Furtseva's Pravda article 'Women and the Building of Communism' for the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day: Marxist-Leninist emancipation theory, Soviet statistics on women in work, soviets and science, contrast with capitalist 'free world', peace and dis
FBIS-monitored KCNA item (23 Jul 1963): Kim Ok-sun, first vice chair of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, reported to a Pyongyang meeting on the Moscow World Women's Congress, calling it a 'great blot' that ignored the anti-imperialist struggle and allowed an anti-Chinese racket. She lists the women's delegations of
FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (15 May 1964) on the Bucharest women workers' trade union conference: WFTU Secretary General Louis Saillant's report praising the Moscow test-ban treaty and peaceful coexistence is attacked as a 'capitulationist' line. Chi Yuan-te (China) and Sri Ambar, head of the Indonesian delegation, ar
FBIS-monitored VNA report (2 Apr 1965) on volunteers in socialist and other countries offering to fight in Vietnam, citing letters from the USSR, China, DPRK, Cuba and Hungary. The final sentence says workers', peasants' and women's organisations in Indonesia called on members to enrol as volunteers and the Indonesian
FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (25 Apr 1965): Premier Zhou Enlai, in Jakarta for the Bandung anniversary, received Indonesia-China Friendship Association and mass-organisation representatives, among them SOBSI chair Mohammad Munir, the Peasants' Front, and Mme Mudikdio (Mudigdio), leader of the Indonesian Women's Movemen