FBIS monitored New China News Agency report (30 Nov 1949) on worldwide preparations for the Asian Women's Conference in Peking (opening 6 Dec). Notes Indonesian women's delegation to Peking, funded partly by women's groups in Italy, Belgium and Austria, and Dutch women protesting the colonial war. Context for WIDF-link
FBIS editorial report (19 Sep 1958) on foreign items carried by Xinhua on 18 Sept supporting China in the Taiwan Strait crisis (TASS and Soviet commentary, US critics, Poland, Oman, Australia, Burma, German unionists). One clause notes support from 'an Indonesian women's organization' and Indonesian public figures; no
Chapter 'The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women' by Amara Raksasataya in The Annals of the American Academy (Jan. 1968, 'Women Around the World'). Surveys Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam: equal legal rights but modest office-holding; Thailand as case study of indirect influence. For
Daily World, 9 April 1974, p. 3: page with several items; the Indonesia-related part is a short report that an Association of Asian Scholars panel on martial law in the Philippines (3 April; Kerkvliet, Stauffer, Manglapus) also raised political prisoners in the Philippines and Indonesia. Other articles cover the Vietna
Neue Zeit, 13 August 1993, p. 5: report 'Bekenntnis zur Kriegsschuld' on Japan's new coalition seeking to apologise to neighbouring states. It recalls that up to 200,000 women from Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines were forced into army brothels (so-called 'comfort women') between 1930 and 1