Salatiga: new executive council member elected
De Locomotief, 20 Jan 1954: Salatiga municipal council elects a new member of the executive council; Mrs Judodiprodjo of Gerwis receives 1 vote against 6 for Abdulsalam (Pemuda Demokrat) and 4 for Djojopuspito (PIR). Shows a Gerwis woman as a candidate in local government.
International Women's Day in Salatiga, 1954
De Locomotief, 11 Mar 1954: Salatiga's federation of women's associations marks International Women's Day on 8 March; a Gerwis representative explains the day's origin, followed by a talk on baby care, a health-service film and children's dances. Shows Gerwis giving the political history of the day within a mixed local
Impressive ceremony on the invasion beach (with item on Gerwani and the Union)
Het Vaderland front page (8 Jun 1954) opening with Dutch resistance veterans' wreath-laying at the Normandy invasion beaches, followed by Indonesian news. A short passage 'Indon. comm. women and the Union' says the Indonesian feminist movement Gerwani, recently hostess to delegations of communist women from Russia and
Gerwani conference in Salatiga on implementing congress decisions
De Locomotief, 29 July 1954: the Salatiga branch of Gerwani, with Central Java provincial delegates and BTI, SOBSI and women's organisation representatives, discusses implementing the latest congress decisions. Sub-branches will be set up in every subdistrict capital. Gerwani fields no candidates in the elections but i
To the Chinese People's Republic: women's delegation to China
De Locomotief, 11 Sept 1954: Mrs Surya Hadi, member of the Central Java provincial council's education section, and ten other women including one from 'the left-oriented Gerwis' will visit the Chinese People's Republic at the invitation of the chair of China's federation of democratic women's organisations.
Indonesian women rise up against Sukarno's second marriage
Le Lorrain (30 Sep 1954, p.10), Jakarta dispatch: Sukarno's secret June marriage to Hartini Suwondo has turned political after women's organisation Perwari asked government and parliament to regulate leaders' marriages and draw up a marriage law. It blames Sukarno for not warning Fatmawati. A committee defends his repu