The Women of Asia and Africa: Documents, Report of the Commission (WIDF, Budapest, 1948)
WIDF documents volume (Budapest, December 1948) for the Conference of the Women of Asia: the report of the WIDF commission that toured South-East Asia in February-April 1948, plus country reports (Viet Nam, India, Malaya, China, Korea, Africa, Mongolia and others). Indonesia is mentioned only in passing: the commission
Official WIDF account of its Second Women's International Congress, Budapest, 1-6 December 1948 (390 delegates, 51 nations), with preface by Irene Joliot-Curie. It frames women's rights, child welfare and peace against Cold War blocs. Gerwani is not named. Indonesia appears only as a colonial struggle: appeals to end D
Potentials of World Communism: Women's International Democratic Federation (OIR report, 1949)
OSS/State Department intelligence report (1 Aug 1949) on the Women's International Democratic Federation as a communist front: origins in the Soviet Anti-Fascist Committee of Women, 1945 Paris founding, leaders (Cotton, Popova, Ibarruri, Cai Chang), membership claims and Asia activities. Indonesia is mentioned only in
World Conference of Women Workers, Budapest 1956 (WIDF issue)
Issue of Women of the Whole World (no. 105, 1956) on the World Conference of Women Workers in Budapest, 14-17 June 1956 (497 delegates, 44 countries): reports on wage discrimination, working mothers, African women, Latin America, plus a contents list pointing to the Indonesian delegate's speech. This page itself says l
Berliner Zeitung, 27 May 1956, p. 6: In June in Budapest ...
Berliner Zeitung, 27 May 1956, p. 6: women's column item "Im Juni wird in Budapest ..." ahead of the World Congress of Working Women. One short paragraph reports that the Indonesian women's organisation GERWANI demands a ban on child marriage, forced marriage and bride-purchase, an end to the ban on widows remarrying,
Daily Worker, 24 July 1956: Women unionists from 42 lands hold conference in Budapest
Page 4 of the Daily Worker (New York, 24 Jul 1956) reporting a Budapest conference of women trade unionists from 42 countries called by the WFTU, which demanded equal pay and opportunities and paid maternity leave. An unnamed delegate from Indonesia is cited on women workers being treated as cheap labour. Gerwani is no
Women of all countries strive for peace and their own rights (Renmin Ribao, 8 March 1957)
Renmin Ribao, 8 Mar 1957, p. 6, Weng Hua: International Women's Day survey of women's struggles for peace and rights worldwide, WIDF growth, wage inequality and conditions in socialist countries. Only Indonesian item: an unnamed Indonesian women's organisation said to have grown from 6,000 members three years earlier t
Women of all countries strive for peace and their own rights (Renmin Ribao, 8 March 1957)
Renmin Ribao, 8 Mar 1957, p. 6, Weng Hua: International Women's Day survey of women's struggles for peace and rights worldwide, WIDF growth, wage inequality and conditions in socialist countries. Only Indonesian item: an unnamed Indonesian women's organisation said to have grown from 6,000 members three years earlier t
WIDF at 15: Fighting for Family Happiness and World Peace
Api Kartini article (1960) by Maasje Siwi, an Api Kartini staff member who attended the WIDF Council in Warsaw (29 Nov-5 Dec 1960), marking the WIDF's 15th anniversary. Delegates from 61 countries heard Eugenie Cotton review WIDF history (1948 manifesto, 1953 Copenhagen congress, 1955 Lausanne mothers' congress, 1958 V
US Embassy Reports on Women's Organizations and Friendship-Society Regulation, Oct 1961
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
Working Women Shape Their Future: 2nd International Trade Union Conference on Working Women, Bucharest 1964
Proceedings volume published by the World Federation of Trade Unions (Prague, 1964) of the 2nd International Trade Union Conference on the Problems of Working Women, Bucharest, 11-16 May 1964: agenda reports, delegates' speeches, a Charter on the Economic and Social Rights of Working Women and a memorandum to the ILO.
Neue Zeit, 27 Nov 1965, p. 4: Strength lies in unity: twenty years of the Women's International Democratic Federation
Neue Zeit, 27 November 1965, p. 4 (women's page): 'Die Kraft liegt in der Einigkeit', a history of 20 years of the WIDF (IDFF). Indonesia appears once, in a list of imperialist armed aggressions (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaya, Korea) against which the WIDF organised protests. The article also stresses the DFD's role and I
The WIDF: History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991 (de Haan, c.2012)
Overview essay by Francisca de Haan (Women and Social Movements International database, c. 2012) on WIDF's origins, agenda, UN role and Cold War marginalisation, 1945-1991. Gerwani is listed once as a large, influential WIDF member organisation (with footnotes to Wieringa and to McGregor on Indonesian women and WIDF);
Tempo, 17 September 2023: Why 1965 exiles will not return home
Tempo report (17 Sep 2023, Raymundus Rikang and Stefanus Pramono) on 1965 exiles who decline to return despite visa and residence facilities offered by ministers Mahfud Md. and Yasonna Laoly in Amsterdam and Prague. Sri Budiarti (Aachen, ex-student in Budapest) demands truth and an apology and removal of the stigma tha