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GA-02842 1957 WIDF rel C licensed

President Sukarno Gave Her a Name (WIDF, 1957)

Short 1957 WIDF magazine item: President Sukarno, visiting Tashkent, was asked by the Urazayev family to name their newborn daughter and chose 'Youldous Sukharno' ('little star'), symbolising Soviet-Indonesian friendship. Gerwani is not mentioned; it illustrates Sukarno's 1956-57 Soviet bloc visits and friendship propa

GA-00080 1961 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Harapan Jenab (Seminar Nasional Wanita Tani, 1961)

Jenab's Hope (National Seminar on Peasant Women, 1961)

Api Kartini (1961) human-interest profile of Jenab, a poor peasant woman from Pabuaran village, West Java, who attended the DPP Gerwani National Seminar on Peasant Women in Jakarta with her baby. Describes her family's poverty (8 of 12 children died) and her hopes for implementing the sharecropping and agrarian laws; n