State Department intelligence report (17 July 1956) on the Soviet and Chinese communist campaign in Indonesia after the 1956 visits, with a chronology of Indonesia-China exchanges. Gerwani features only in the chronology: a May 1956 Gerwani protest against US H-bomb tests, plus Indonesian delegations to the WIDF meetin
Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1956-08-20, p. 2): report of Soong Ching Ling's visit to Bandung, including the Institute for the Deaf-Mute and a dinner with Governor Sanusi. At nine in the evening a women's delegation led by Gerwani called on her, after which the evening continued with singing and dancing.
Straits Times, 27 Sep 1956 (photo caption, lead only). A six-member Indonesian women's delegation to China, led by Mrs Roeslan Abdulgani with Madam Hurustiati Subandrio, stopped in Singapore en route to National Day celebrations in Peking on 1 October.
Renmin Ribao, 30 Sep 1956, p. 2 (Xinhua): the All-China Democratic Women's Federation hosts a banquet for an Indonesian women's delegation led by Mrs Abdulgani, including Perwari chair Mrs Sudaman and wives of parliamentary leaders. Deng Yingchao stresses shared anti-colonial experience. Gerwani is not named.
Renmin Ribao, 30 Sep 1956, p. 2 (Xinhua): the All-China Democratic Women's Federation hosts a banquet for an Indonesian women's delegation led by Mrs Abdulgani, including Perwari chair Mrs Sudaman and wives of parliamentary leaders. Deng Yingchao stresses shared anti-colonial experience. Gerwani is not named.