Java-Bode, 10 February 1955, p. 2: report that the customary court at Tanjungraja began re-examining the Maisuri case on appeal. Maisuri, forced by her father to marry a 45-year-old hadji, married her chosen partner Kojum instead and was sentenced with him and her uncle to six months. Prominent Palembang women and Sout
Indische Courant voor Nederland, 16 Feb 1955, p. 3: the customary court at Tanjungraja re-examines the Maisuri case, a village girl forced to marry a 45-year-old hadji who sentenced her and her chosen husband to six months. Gerwani South Sumatra delegates attend; Gerwani and other women's groups made it a national issu
Peking Review Vol. VI No. 29, 19 July 1963, a Chinese weekly. The item of interest is 'Peking Acclaims Women Delegates From Asia, Africa and Latin America' (p. 17): at a Peking meeting after the Moscow World Congress of Women, Mme Parjani Pradono, Central Committee member of the Indonesian women's movement (Gerwani) an