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GA-01086 1954-05-14 Het Vrije Volk rel B

Fouten van vroeger (over de Sobsi en Gerwis)

Mistakes of the past (on SOBSI and Gerwis)

Het Vrije Volk opinion piece 'Fouten van vroeger' (14 May 1954, p.15) on Indonesian labour relations: SOBSI has profited from foreign employers' past neglect, the government chooses political over economic paths, and when strike leaders are prosecuted SOBSI and the communist women's association Gerwis appear in court w

GA-01088 1965-09-23 Het Vrije Volk rel B

Protest in Djakarta tegen duurte

Protest in Jakarta against high prices

Short ANP item in Het Vrije Volk (23 Sep 1965, p.9), one week before the coup attempt: thousands of Indonesian women demonstrated at the Ministry of Trade in Jakarta against rising prices of necessities, as reported by PKI paper Harian Rakjat. They demanded strong action against capitalists, bureaucrats, swindlers and

GA-01090 1990-07-09 Het Vrije Volk rel B

Lesbische vrouwen in Derde Wereld: vervolgd en erkend

Lesbian women in the Third World: persecuted and recognised

Het Vrije Volk interview feature (9 Jul 1990, p.10) by Canis Zijlmans on anthropologist Saskia Wieringa's research on lesbian women in the Third World. One passage mentions her research in Indonesia on the 'three-million-member' communist women's organisation Gerwani, wiped out after Suharto's takeover, and lesbian lif