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GA-03388 1960-02-20 Neue Zeit rel B licensed

Neue Zeit, 20 February 1960, S. 4: Kartini wollte keine 40 Nebenfrauen

Neue Zeit, 20 Feb 1960, p. 4: Kartini did not want 40 secondary wives

Neue Zeit, 20 February 1960, p. 4: women's-page feature "Kartini wollte keine 40 Nebenfrauen", signed Sulami, on Kartini (1879–1904), pioneer of the Indonesian women's movement. It recounts her opposition to child marriage and polygamy under Dutch colonial rule, her letters, and her sympathy for socialism, and quotes P

GA-02625 1960-07 rel A licensed

Biographic Data on Members of the Gotong Rojong Parliament (US Embassy Djakarta despatch, July 1960)

Biographic Data on Members of the Gotong Royong Parliament (US Embassy despatch, July 1960)

US State Department Central Files despatch from Embassy Djakarta (July 1960, chargé Rolland Buchner): biographic data, with alphabetical index, on about 110 former members of parliament appointed to the Gotong Royong parliament, grouped by party. Biographies of women MPs include Gerwani figures. Mrs Mudigdio (Gerwis/Ge

GA-01498 1965-03-27 New York Times rel A licensed

Reds, Pressing Reforms, Win Wide Peasant Support in Java (New York Times, 27 Maret 1965)

Reds, pressing reforms, win wide peasant support in Java (New York Times, 27 March 1965)

New York Times, 27 March 1965, p.55, Neil Sheehan from Klaten, Central Java: on how the PKI and affiliates win peasant support through land-reform agitation and practical projects. Mrs. Sukarni, chair of the Klaten district women's organisation (Gerwani) and district committee member, says Gerwani works to remove restr

GA-02297 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Umi Sardjono dan Hantu Tahunan PKI

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Umi Sardjono and the annual PKI ghost

Tempo column (2 Oct 2021, Budi Setyarso) using Umi Sardjono's life to argue that 1965 history is still painted in black and white. It notes her arrest without trial, Bukit Duri and Plantungan until 1979, Gerwani's origins in Gerwis, about 1.5 million members by 1960, literacy courses, her immigration and marriage-law w