Situation in the Indies: Mansergh orders surrender of arms
Nijmeegsch Dagblad, 10 November 1945, p. 1: wire report on the British ultimatum of Maj-Gen Mansergh to Surabaya's Indonesian leadership to surrender arms, and on conditions in Batavia, Bandung, Semarang and the Pontianak area. It says Indonesian women and children could leave Surabaya only by a specified route. No Ger
A Brief Look Back
Article by Kukilowarsi (1959) for 17 August, recalling women's roles in the Indonesian revolution: 1926 rebels and Digul exiles, anti-Japanese resistance, women's guerrilla brigades, Red Cross and kitchens, and stories of Suparmi and a mother fighter. It cites the first women's congress of 1928, the 1955 vote, and dema
Modern Indonesian History: stencilled lecture text (Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 1964)
Stencilled lecture text, 'Sedjarah Modern Indonesia' (1964), by Pramoedya Ananta Toer for a literature faculty course (cover bears 'Res Publica'); OCR is very noisy. Introduction (pp. 2-5) defines 'history', 'modern' and 'Indonesia' from a Marxist-nationalist view; later chapters treat Dutch colonial exploitation, assi
The Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree: Muhammadiyah in a Central Javanese Town (Nakamura, 1976)
Mitsuo Nakamura's 1976 Cornell PhD thesis, an ethnography and local history of the Muhammadiyah reform movement in Kotagede, Yogyakarta, arguing that Islamization of Java is an ongoing, internally generated process. Gerwani appears only in passing (p. 208), listed with Pemuda Rakyat and Lekra as PKI-influenced mass org