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GA-01206 1953-06-16 Java-Bode rel A

Standpunt Gerwis (Gerwis position)

Gerwis position

Java-Bode, 16 June 1953, p. 1: Gerwis statement on the formation of a new cabinet. It demands withdrawal of measures harming women and the people, with a programme of protection for working and pregnant women, fighting unemployment, higher education budget, price control, repeal of regional measures violating democrati

GA-01028 1953-06-17 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel A

Gerwis en het komende kabinet

Gerwis and the coming cabinet

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (17 Jun 1953, p.2): Gerwis issues a statement on the formation of a new cabinet, calling for one that repeals measures harming women and people. Its programme demands protection of working women (especially pregnant), curbing unemployment, a bigger education and culture budget, price control

GA-02194 1959-01 Suara Tani rel A

Suara Tani, Januari 1959 (Nomor Istimewa 10 Tahun): Sambutan Gerwani dan kerja sama dengan BTI

Suara Tani, January 1959 (10th anniversary issue): Gerwani greeting and cooperation with BTI

Suara Tani (BTI organ), special 10th-anniversary issue, January 1959, OCR noisy. Contains greetings from ministers, army chief Nasution and Gerwani; BTI New Year message; agrarian seminar results; BTI membership table (3.39 million); exposés of landlord exploitation in Java. On p. 5 Gerwani's national leadership (claim

GA-00240 1967-11-21 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 November 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 November 1967. 'Operasi Tjakra' in North Sumatra: 215 PKI members arrested for an alleged 'Gerakan 12 Nopember'; Pemuda Rakyat, BTI and Gerwani members at Tanjung Morawa and 'women members of Gerwani' among those arrested.

GA-02693 2006 rel A

Catatan Sulami, Mantan Sekjennas Gerwani (YPKP 1965, 2006)

Notes of Sulami, Former Gerwani Secretary-General (YPKP 1965, 2006)

Sulami's reflective essay (written 1992, posted 9 Nov 2006) on why revolutionary women founded Gerwis on 4 June 1950, its rejection of 'man-hating feminism', its actions such as Tanjung Morawa and International Women's Day. First-person account by a Gerwani secretary-general.

GA-02873 2020 rel A

Feminismus als Klassenfrage, Teil I (Ita Fatia Nadia, südostasien 3/2020)

Feminism as a Class Question, Part I (Ita Fatia Nadia, 2020)

Part I of Ita Fatia Nadia's essay (südostasien 3/2020) tracing the women's movement 1912-65 to Gerwani: peasant and plantation work, marriage and land reform, WIDF ties and 1.7 million members. Notes Kowani in the WIDF 1946-49 and Indonesian women at the WIDF secretariat. In German.