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GA-00804 1949-03-05 De Waarheid rel C

Vrouwen, demonstreert Dinsdag voor Vrede! (Women, demonstrate on Tuesday for peace!)

Women, demonstrate on Tuesday for peace: International Women's Day call 1949

De Waarheid call (5 Mar 1949) for Dutch women to demonstrate on International Women's Day for peace: against the colonial war in Indonesia, the Marshall Plan and Atlantic Pact, for troop withdrawal and equal pay, with Soviet women held up as models and WIDF president Cotton quoted. Concerns Dutch communist women; no In

GA-01260 1954-09-21 Leeuwarder Courant rel C

Vrouwen-delegatie op het paleis: Nog steeds veel rumoer over nieuwe huwelijk van Soekarno (Women's delegation at the palace)

Women's delegation at the palace: uproar over Sukarno's new marriage

Leeuwarder Courant, 21 September 1954, p. 3: Dutch roundup of the uproar over Sukarno's marriage to Hartini. A four-woman delegation led by Perwari chair Mrs Kartowijono visited the palace; Indonesian, Chinese and Malayan-region papers are quoted, some warning that the fuss helps the PKI, Indonesia Raya calling it a bl

GA-01349 1954-09-21 Provinciale Drentsche En Asser Courant rel C

Rumoer om 't huwelijk van Sukarno nog niet bedaard: Vrouwendelegatie door president ontvangen (Uproar over Sukarno's marriage: women's delegation received)

Uproar over Sukarno's marriage not yet calmed: women's delegation received by the president

Provinciale Drentsche en Asser Courant (21 Sep 1954): uproar over Sukarno's marriage to Mrs Suwondo (Hartini). A four-woman delegation led by Perwari chair Mrs Kartowijono spent an hour at the palace. Indonesian papers divide; Keng Po fears PKI advantage, Indonesia Raya calls the marriage 'a great blow to the women's m

GA-01355 1954-09-21 Provinciale Overijsselsche En Zwolsche Courant rel C

Soekarno's tweede huwelijk: Indonesische pers betreurt besluit van president (Sukarno's second marriage: Indonesian press deplores decision)

Sukarno's second marriage: Indonesian press deplores president's decision

Provinciale Overijsselsche en Zwolsche Courant (21 Sep 1954) survey of Indonesian press reaction to Sukarno's second marriage (to Mrs Suwondo): attacks on the 'palace clique', Keng Po's fear it will favour the PKI, Suara Rakyat and Pikiran Rakyat lamenting a presidential crisis. A Perwari-led women's delegation visited

GA-00074 1960 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Gema Revolusi (fragmen)

Echoes of the Revolution (fragment)

Fragmentary Api Kartini (1960) item 'Echoes of Revolution': OCR remnants of a rhetorical piece or poem on women marching, crushing colonialism, and demanding equal rights in politics and economy. Too damaged to summarise beyond title and these themes.

GA-00077 1960 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Setiakawan Wanita dari Berbagai Negeri

Women's Solidarity from Many Countries (against the Karel Doorman)

Api Kartini (1960) compilation of foreign women's solidarity statements against the Dutch dispatch of the carrier Karel Doorman and troops to Irian Barat. Includes Dutch women's movement (NVB) protests to parliament and a Rotterdam petition, a WIDF statement backing Indonesia, and a message from Australian miners' wive

GA-00085 1961 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Surat dari New York: Pemuda Amerika Serikat dan Perdamaian

Letter from New York: American Youth and Peace

Api Kartini (1961) item 'Letter from New York': a young American woman's account (Bettina Aptheker, per the editors' note) of growing American youth peace activism, with marches, vigils and demonstrations from 1960 to August 1961 and the formation of a single national peace organisation. Printed by the editors in Indon

GA-02572 1965 rel C licensed

Indonesia, Bilateral relations: US [3] (FO 371/180337, 1965)

FO 371/180337: Bilateral Relations with the US [3] (1965)

UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180337 (Mar-Nov 1965): telegrams and letters on US-Indonesian relations: Bunker mission, Peace Corps withdrawal, anti-American demonstrations, Ambassador Green, Palmer affair, then Anglo-American talks on aid to the generals after 1 October. No mention of Gerwani; 'women' appear only among

GA-02856 1965-05 WIDF rel C

Women of the Whole World, May 1965: 20th Anniversary of Victory over Fascism

Women of the Whole World, May 1965: 20th anniversary of victory over fascism

Full May 1965 issue of Women of the Whole World (WIDF), a commemorative number for the 20th anniversary of victory over Nazism: women in the resistance, wartime memoirs and Sholokhov's story, Coventry, Leningrad, Warsaw, Lidice-type massacres, Dresden and Hiroshima, plus peace, Vietnam and anticolonial pieces. Indonesi

GA-01380 1965-09-23 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel C

Kort en klein (Short and small)

Short and small (women's price demonstration)

'Kort en klein' column, Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (23 Sep 1965). One Indonesia item: thousands of women demonstrated before the trade ministry against high prices, per PKI paper Harian Rakjat, urging action against capitalists and bureaucrats. Organisers not named, Gerwani not mentioned. Other items unrelated.

GA-01381 1965-09-23 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel C

Kort en klein (Short and small)

Short and small (women's price demonstration, duplicate)

'Kort en klein' column, Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (23 Sep 1965), duplicate of the previous item. Thousands of women demonstrated before the trade ministry against high prices, per Harian Rakjat, urging action against capitalists and bureaucrats. Organisers not named, Gerwani not mentioned.

GA-00661 1966-02-25 De Nieuwe Limburger rel C

Gevechten in Djakarta (Fighting in Jakarta)

Fighting in Jakarta: students storm Sukarno's palace

De Nieuwe Limburger, 25 Feb 1966: students storm Sukarno's palace after the swearing-in of the new cabinet; Sukarno calls them 'madmen' and the cabinet is derided as a 'Gestapu cabinet'. A photo caption notes that KOWANI members also joined the mass gathering at the palace. Gerwani is not named.

GA-00497 1966-03-09 Algemeen Handelsblad rel C

Militairen kijken toe: Scholieren in Djakarta opnieuw in de aanval (Militer menonton: pelajar Jakarta kembali menyerang)

Soldiers look on: schoolchildren in Jakarta attack again

Algemeen Handelsblad (1966-03-09, pp. 1 and 11): student and schoolchildren demonstrations in Jakarta, tanks outside ministries, a student demand to ban the PKI, and Siliwangi troops beating the Cakrabirawa guard to the university. Sukarno told a meeting of Indonesian women (unnamed) to amend a resolution to condemn Am

GA-01267 1966-03-18 Leeuwarder Courant rel C

Sfeer van staatsgreep in Djakarta: Soebandrio in arrest (Atmosphere of coup in Jakarta: Subandrio under arrest)

Coup atmosphere in Jakarta: Subandrio under arrest

Leeuwarder Courant, 18 March 1966, p. 1: report on Suharto's army placing Foreign Minister Subandrio, twelve other ministers and Saleh in 'protective custody' after the 11 March order, with tanks aimed at the Merdeka palace, Adam Malik made acting foreign minister, and student demonstrations. Suharto cites trial testim

GA-01995 1966-12-14 Renmin Ribao rel C licensed

Renmin Ribao, 14 Desember 1966: Lima badan Tiongkok menyatakan dukungan seruan menyelamatkan 300.000 patriot Indonesia (我国五团体代表全国人民发表联合声明)

Five Chinese bodies back appeal to save 300,000 Indonesian patriots (snippet)

Snippet-only Renmin Ribao front-page extract (14 Dec 1966): five Chinese bodies including the All-China Women's Federation issue a joint statement condemning the mass slaughter of Indonesian patriots; truncated. Gerwani not named. Full text is GA-01996.

GA-01996 1966-12-14 Renmin Ribao rel C licensed

Renmin Ribao, 14 Desember 1966: Lima badan Tiongkok menyatakan dukungan seruan menyelamatkan 300.000 patriot Indonesia (我国五团体代表全国人民发表联合声明)

Five Chinese organisations condemn Indonesian military regime's mass slaughter and detention

Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (14 Dec 1966, p. 1): five Chinese organisations, including the All-China Women's Federation, jointly condemn Indonesia's 'right-wing military regime' for mass slaughter and detention of 300,000, support the Indonesian AAPSO appeal, and attack Soviet 'revisionists' and Adam Malik's Moscow v

GA-01370 1967-10-25 Tubantia rel C

Adam Malik op bezoek bij collega mr. Luns (Adam Malik visits colleague Luns)

Adam Malik visits colleague Luns

Tubantia profile (25 Oct 1967) of Adam Malik on his visit to The Hague to meet Luns: Dutch plea for clemency for Subandrio, New Guinea, credit needs, his role against Sukarno. Notes that in 1965 Mrs Subandrio led a women's demonstration against Malik, then trade minister. Gerwani not named; context for Subandrio's wife

GA-02750 1975 rel C

Indonesie-avond (poster, Amsterdam 1975)

Indonesia Evening (Poster, Amsterdam 1975)

Poster for an 'Indonesie-avond' protest meeting at Frascati, Amsterdam, 28 April 1975, against the donor countries conference, demanding an end to aid to Suharto and release of political prisoners. Dutch solidarity material.

GA-02672 2017 rel C

Data dan Fakta Kebangkitan PKI (ceramah audio)

Data and Facts on the Revival of the PKI (Audio Lectures, 2017)

Audio item (description only, no transcript): 'Data dan Fakta Kebangkitan PKI', a 3:12:35 recording of lectures by Alfian Tanjung, Rizieq Shihab and Kivlan Zen, tagged Aksi Bela Islam III (2017), hosted on archive.org. It argues for an alleged revival of the PKI; relevant as contemporary anti-communist propaganda. No G

GA-03003 2018 rel C

Pukulan Telak bagi Gerakan Perempuan (Historia, 2018)

A heavy blow to the women's movement (Historia, 2018)

Historia article (2018) on the 1953 women's campaign against Government Regulation 19/1952 giving civil-service pensions to all widows of polygynous officials, including the 17 Dec 1953 mass meeting at Deca Park attended by Gerwani and others. Context on the anti-polygamy movement.