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Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959

Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959 (Lin, 2020)

PhD dissertation (History, University of Washington, 2020) by Hongxuan Lin tracing the confluence of Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959, through vernacular print culture; it genealogises Sukarno's NASAKOM. Gerwani appears only briefly: citing Blackburn, it says millions joined for

GA-02317 2021-10-04 Tempo English rel A licensed

Soft on Sukarno (Gerwani and Sukarno's Polygamy)

Tempo English, 4 October 2021: Soft on Sukarno (Gerwani and Sukarno's polygamy)

Tempo English cover story 'Soft on Sukarno' (4 Oct 2021, Hussein Abri) on why Gerwani, which campaigned against polygamy, stayed silent when Sukarno married Hartini in 1954. Umi Sardjono told Ruth Indiah Rahayu the group still needed Sukarno against imperialism, and defended him in Harian Rakjat (4 Jan 1956). The stanc

GA-02318 2021-10-04 Tempo English rel A licensed

Opinion: The Story of Gerwani Leader Umi Sardjono and Communism Phobia (Umi Sardjono and the Annual Ghost)

Tempo English, 4 October 2021: Opinion - Umi Sardjono and communism phobia (the annual ghost)

English edition of the Tempo column 'Umi Sardjono and the Annual Ghost' (4 Oct 2021) arguing that 1965 history is still black and white. It uses Umi Sardjono's life (arrest without trial, Bukit Duri, Plantungan to 1979), Gerwani's Gerwis origins, a mid-1960s membership of 1.5 million, literacy classes, her immigration