WIDF pamphlet (Berlin, Dec 1952) surveying women's political rights, wages, unemployment, education, rural conditions and social protection country by country, and issuing the Call to the World Congress of Women (Denmark, June 1953). Indonesia appears briefly: equal rights on paper under the 1950 Constitution, no elect
Report volume (WIDF, Berlin, 1953) on the World Congress of Women, Copenhagen, 5-10 June 1953: reports, speeches, documents, resolutions and the officers elected. Gerwani and Gerwis are not named. Indonesia appears in the congress report (p. 4), which says its 10 delegates and observers came from six organisations, one
Alger républicain (11 Apr 1953, p.4): a short item reports that the Indonesian women's movement Gerwis called on its 141 national branches to put on the agenda for preparing the World Congress of Women (Copenhagen, June 1953) women's rights, recruitment of new members, social and economic work, and strengthening the ch
Alger républicain (11 Apr 1953, p.4; clean snippet extract): a short item reports that the Indonesian women's movement Gerwis called on its 141 national branches to put on the agenda for preparing the World Congress of Women (Copenhagen, June 1953) women's rights, recruitment of new members, social and economic work, a
De Waarheid, 14 Aug 1953, p. 3: open letter from the NVB chair G. Blokker-de Groot congratulating 'dear Indonesian sisters' on the eighth anniversary of the Republic, praising Gerwis as a sister organisation of great significance in women's struggle for equality. Recalls the Dutch and Indonesian women's meeting at the
Soviet Woman, 31 Dec 1953, pp. 49-52: WIDF declaration for peaceful settlement and Eugenie Cotton's statement, then Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier's 'We are stronger than ever' on follow-up to the Copenhagen World Congress of Women. One sentence notes the Indonesian women's union GERWIS would hold its congress in Dece
WIDF commemorative booklet (Berlin, 1955) for its tenth anniversary: history from the 1945 Paris founding congress, peace and anti-atom campaigns, the 1953 Copenhagen Congress, children's work, the 1955 Lausanne World Congress of Mothers. Page 28 states that in Indonesia 'the women's organization which had 6,000 member
Front page (with pp. 2-4) of Bintang Timur, Jakarta, 9 Mar 1956. One column reports the 10th-anniversary celebration of the Women's International Democratic Federation (GWDS/WIDF) at the SBKA hall, Manggarai: Gerwani chair Umi Sardjono urges women's organisations to get women's rights written into the Konstituante, cit
Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1957-07-31, p. 3): continued biographies of National Council members. Soerastri Karma Trimurti, representing women's organisations, born Surakarta 1912, teacher-training and economics studies, jailed by the Dutch 1933-36, attended the 1953 Copenhagen international women's congress, and wrote b
Api Kartini (1959) short article marking 50 years of International Women's Day (1910-1960), reproducing the appeal of the preparatory committee after the Malmo meeting of 13-14 June 1959 (women of 28 countries). Links women's rights to peace and national self-determination and invites support for the 1960 jubilee. No I
Api Kartini (1959/60) feature asking Indonesian women leaders their views on the Copenhagen International Women's Conference (21-24 April 1960) for the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day. Quotes Ny. Aruji Kartawinata (committee chair), Ratu Aminah Hidayat and Dr. Hurustiati Subandrio, who led the Indonesian
Api Kartini (1959-60) biographical article on Clara Zetkin (b. 1857), pioneer of the international women's movement, drawing on Luise Dornemann's biography. Traces her youth in Saxony, socialist formation in Leipzig, exile with Ossip Zetkin, editorship of Gleichheit in Stuttgart, and her 1910 Copenhagen proposal for an
Api Kartini interview-report with Dr. Hurustiati Subandrio, head of the Indonesian women's delegation to the Copenhagen International Women's Conference (April 1960, 73 countries). She chaired the first plenary on 21 April (Kartini Day), sat on the Presidium and chaired the Education and Culture Commission; other deleg
Api Kartini item announcing the International Women's Assembly in Copenhagen, 21-24 April 1960, marking fifty years since International Women's Day was proclaimed there in 1910. Reviews gains and unfinished goals in women's equality, and sets the conference theme of women yesterday, today and tomorrow as a forum to exc
Api Kartini item on preparations for the Fiftieth Anniversary of International Women's Day (March 1960) in Indonesia. Carries a message from Ny. Aruji Kartawinata, chair of the Indonesian committee, to the international preparatory committee, linking Kartini's ideals to the 1910 Copenhagen resolutions and listing plann
March 1960 issue devoted to the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day and the Copenhagen International Women's Congress (21–24 April 1960); interviews with delegation figures Arudji Kartawinata, Ratu Aminah Hidajat and Hurustiati Subandrio.
Suara Tani (BTI organ), Feb 1960 (vol. XI no. 2), OCR noisy. Covers BTI protest over price rises, sugar-cane land rents, Khrushchev's coming visit and the Bandung peace conference. On p. 3 an article welcomes the WIDF Bureau session in Jakarta (late Jan 1960), stressing peasant women's backwardness, citing Sri Darnings
US Embassy Djakarta despatches, Oct 1961: transmittal of the July 1961 war-administrator regulation on international friendship societies, and the report 'Role of Women in Indonesia: Women's Organizations' with a memorandum of conversation with Maria Ulfah Santoso (8 March 1961) and biographic notes. It describes Gerwa
Francisca de Haan's 2018 chapter proposing a 'global left-feminist 1960s' led by the WIDF network, from the 1953 Copenhagen Congress (whose declaration reached Indonesia) to the 1963 Moscow congress. Frames WIDF transnationalism relevant to Gerwani.