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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-02844 1958 WIDF rel C licensed

Good Recipes around the World (WIDF, 1958)

WIDF magazine 1958, International Women's Day feature 'Good Recipes around the World': tips on preparing vegetables and recipes from several countries, including two Indonesian dishes (beef fried with cloves and atjar cucumber salad), plus Bulgarian, Italian, Chinese. No Gerwani or political content.

GA-00035 1961 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 4–5 Th. 3, April–Mei 1961

Api Kartini No. 4-5, Year 3, April-May 1961

Double issue (Apr–May 1961, 40 pp.) for Kartini Day and Education Day, dense with transnational content including a visiting Chinese cultural mission and embassy commemorations in Cairo, Rome, Moscow and New York.

GA-02852 1961 WIDF rel C licensed

In National Colours (WIDF, 1961): Asian and African postage stamps

In National Colours: Asian and African postage stamps (WIDF, 1961)

WIDF magazine 1961 stamp feature 'In National Colours' on postage stamps of newly independent Asian and African states, commemorating liberation, public works, agrarian reform, education and women (Mongolia, Korea, Ceylon, UAR, Vietnam, China). An Indonesian stamp is listed among liberation-themed issues. Gerwani is no

GA-02474 1961-06-22 rel B licensed

Indonesian Women Writers (FBIS, 22 Jun 1961)

FBIS, 22 June 1961: Indonesian women writers (Rukiah and Sugiarti in China)

One-line Xinhua item (22 Jun 1961, via FBIS): two Indonesian women writers, S. Rukiah Kertapati and Sugiarti Siswadi, left Peking for home after a visit to China; Chinese writer Yang Shuo saw them off. Records Lekra-circle women writers' PRC visit.

GA-02475 1961-06-25 rel B licensed

Indonesian Writers (FBIS, 25 Jun 1961)

FBIS, 25 June 1961: Indonesian writers (leave Xi'an)

One-line Xinhua item (25 Jun 1961, via FBIS): the two Indonesian women writers S. Rukiah Kertapati and Sugiarti Siswadi left Xi'an by air for home after two weeks as guests of the Union of Chinese Writers. Companion to GA-02474.

GA-03440 1962-05-08 Contemporary Progressive Indonesian Poetry rel A

Contemporary Progressive Indonesian Poetry (anthology, introduction dated Djakarta, 8 May 1962)

Contemporary Progressive Indonesian Poetry (anthology, Djakarta, 1962)

English anthology of progressive Indonesian poetry, 1955-61 (introduction dated Djakarta, 8 May 1962), from Zaman Baru, Harian Rakjat and Bintang Timur. Its contributor notes state that the poet Sugiarti Siswadi, who visited Romania (1955) and the GDR, USSR and China (1961) with Rukiah Kertapati as LEKRA delegation hea

GA-03441 1962-05-08 Contemporary Progressive Indonesian Poetry rel A

Contemporary Progressive Indonesian Poetry (anthology, introduction dated Djakarta, 8 May 1962)

Contemporary Progressive Indonesian Poetry (anthology, Djakarta, 1962)

English anthology of progressive Indonesian poetry, 1955-61 (introduction dated Djakarta, 8 May 1962), from Zaman Baru, Harian Rakjat and Bintang Timur. Its contributor notes state that the poet Sugiarti Siswadi, who visited Romania (1955) and the GDR, USSR and China (1961) with Rukiah Kertapati as LEKRA delegation hea

GA-01977 1965-07-22 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 22 Juli 1965: Wakil Ketua Federasi Wanita Tiongkok menjamu tamu Indonesia (我全国妇联副主席宴请印度尼西亚客人)

Women's federation vice-chair hosts Gerwani puppet-art study delegation (snippet)

Snippet-only Renmin Ribao item (22 July 1965, p. 4): Kang Keqing of the All-China Women's Federation hosts a banquet for a Gerwani puppet-art study delegation led by a Mrs Muljati Gondjajo (name uncertain), which arrived in Beijing on 17 July at the Federation's invitation. Full text is GA-01978.

GA-01978 1965-07-22 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 22 Juli 1965: Wakil Ketua Federasi Wanita Tiongkok menjamu tamu Indonesia (我全国妇联副主席宴请印度尼西亚客人)

Women's federation vice-chair hosts Gerwani puppet-art study delegation

Brief Xinhua note in Renmin Ribao (22 July 1965, p. 4): on 19 July Kang Keqing, vice-chair of the All-China Women's Federation, gave a banquet for the Gerwani delegation studying puppet art, led by Mrs Muljati Gondjajo (name uncertain), which arrived in Beijing on 17 July as guests of the Federation. Evidence of Gerwan

GA-01980 1965-10-01 Renmin Ribao rel B licensed

Renmin Ribao, 1 Oktober 1965: Tamu dari delapan puluh negara merayakan Hari Nasional (我们的朋友遍于全世界)

Guests from eighty countries celebrate China's National Day on the eve of the 1965 coup

Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (1 Oct 1965, p. 3) on 2,000+ guests at China's 16th National Day, dated the eve of the 1965 coup. Only Indonesian items are translated: MPRS and economic delegations, a PKI delegation under Sidik Kertapati, SOBSI, Harian Rakjat and a Gerwani puppet-art study delegation (leader's name uncer

GA-03713 2012 KITLV Press (Verhandelingen 274), Leiden rel B

Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian 1950–1965

Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian 1950-1965 (KITLV Press, 2012)

Edited volume (KITLV Press, Leiden, 2012) by Jennifer Lindsay and Maya H.T. Liem on Indonesian culture and its international links, 1950-65. Gerwani appears only in passing: Michael Bodden's chapter on Lekra theatre says Gerwani, like Lekra and CGMI, was pressed by the PKI in 1964 to declare itself communist (p. 470, c

GA-03714 2012 KITLV Press (Verhandelingen 274), Leiden rel B

Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian 1950–1965

Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian 1950-1965 (KITLV Press, 2012)

Edited volume (KITLV Press, Leiden, 2012) by Jennifer Lindsay and Maya H.T. Liem on Indonesian culture and its international links, 1950-65. Gerwani appears only in passing: Michael Bodden's chapter on Lekra theatre says Gerwani, like Lekra and CGMI, was pressed by the PKI in 1964 to declare itself communist (p. 470, c

GA-03599 2021-05-01 Tempo (edisi 1 Mei 2021) rel C licensed

Kisah Dua Sastrawan Lekra (S. Rukiah Kertapati)

Tale of two Lekra writers: S. Rukiah Kertapati (Tempo, 1 May 2021)

Tempo feature, 1 May 2021, by Moyang Kasih Dewi Merdeka and Hardian Putra Pratama, on the forgotten Lekra writer S. Rukiah Kertapati: poet and novelist, Lekra leadership member from the 1959 congress, wife of BTI leader Sidik Kertapati. Soldiers took her from Purwakarta (article dates the arrest 1969; she was held at C

GA-03033 2025 rel C licensed

Red Nanyang: Chinese-Language Literature of Indonesia, 1945-1965

Red Nanyang: Chinese-Language Literature of Indonesia, 1945-1965 (Borgonjon, 2025)

Columbia PhD dissertation (2025) by David Borgonjon, the first full-length study of Chinese-language (yinhua) literature in Indonesia 1945-65, set within Sino-Indonesian friendship, Afro-Asian translation and Guided Democracy-era debates on labour and schooling. Gerwani is barely present: a glossary entry gives Gerwani