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GA-00695 1954-07-08 De Nieuwsgier rel B

Comité 17 Augustus (17 August committee)

17 August committee in Jakarta with Gerwani in secretariat

De Nieuwsgier, 8 July 1954: Jakarta forms a committee to celebrate 17 August for national unity, abolition of the Netherlands-Indonesia Union and the return of West Irian; its secretariat, at the Balai Kota, is run by Gerwani, SOBSI and FPI. No Soetanti Aidit; Gerwani appears only as a secretariat organiser.

GA-00696 1954-08-07 De Nieuwsgier rel A

Ekaterina op Java (Ekaterina in Java)

Ekaterina in Java: Soviet delegates and the Gerwani congress

De Nieuwsgier, 7 Aug 1954: a Dutch-Indonesian paper recounts that Russian delegates invited to the Gerwani congress arrived after it ended but toured Java with organisers. Ekaterina Sheveleva's Izvestia report praises roads built by colonisers, laments farmers' primitive tools and notes a women's union meeting at a rai

GA-00699 1954-11-15 De Nieuwsgier rel B

De situatie in Atjeh (The situation in Aceh; includes Gerwani Lampung resolution)

The situation in Aceh; Gerwani Lampung anti-pornography resolution

De Nieuwsgier news roundup (15 Nov 1954, p. 2) mostly on Aceh security incidents. One item reports that Gerwani of Lampung, at its first congress in Tanjung Karang, resolved to ask the government to ban pornographic reading matter, indecent advertisements and films, and urged other women's and democratic organisations

GA-00700 1954-12-06 De Nieuwsgier rel B

Massademonstratie op Medan Merdeka voor Irian (Mass demonstration for West Irian)

Mass demonstration on Medan Merdeka for West Irian

De Nieuwsgier front-page report (6 Dec 1954) on a mass demonstration at Medan Merdeka, Jakarta, organised by the West Irian liberation committee with women's organisations, demanding incorporation of Irian and rupture with the Netherlands. Speakers included Mrs. Sudarman Hadikusumo, Mrs. Kartowijono (Perwari) and Mrs.