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GA-02848 1958 WIDF rel C licensed

R. A. Kartini (WIDF, 1958)

WIDF magazine 1958, one page carrying two pieces: a profile of R. A. Kartini for Indonesia's Kartini Day (born 1879, regent's daughter, quoted letters on education, polygamy and anti-colonial sympathy, died aged 25), and 'The Growing Family of the WIDF' on new affiliations (India, Japan, Sudan, Cameroons, Senegal, Ceyl

GA-02849 1958 WIDF rel C licensed

The Growing Family of the WIDF (WIDF, 1958)

WIDF magazine 1958, one page carrying two pieces: a profile of R. A. Kartini for Indonesia's Kartini Day (born 1879, regent's daughter, quoted letters on education, polygamy and anti-colonial sympathy, died aged 25), and 'The Growing Family of the WIDF' on new affiliations (India, Japan, Sudan, Cameroons, Senegal, Ceyl

GA-00059 1959 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Clara Zetkin, Pelopor Gerakan Wanita Sedunia

Clara Zetkin, Pioneer of the World Women's Movement

Api Kartini (1959-60) biographical article on Clara Zetkin (b. 1857), pioneer of the international women's movement, drawing on Luise Dornemann's biography. Traces her youth in Saxony, socialist formation in Leipzig, exile with Ossip Zetkin, editorship of Gleichheit in Stuttgart, and her 1910 Copenhagen proposal for an

GA-00064 1959 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Kesan Dr. Hurustiati Subandrio dari Kopenhagen

Dr. Hurustiati Subandrio's Impressions of Copenhagen

Api Kartini interview-report with Dr. Hurustiati Subandrio, head of the Indonesian women's delegation to the Copenhagen International Women's Conference (April 1960, 73 countries). She chaired the first plenary on 21 April (Kartini Day), sat on the Presidium and chaired the Education and Culture Commission; other deleg

GA-00073 1959 Api Kartini rel B licensed

Tokoh Hari Kartini: Ny. Utami Suryadarma

Kartini Day Figure: Mrs Utami Suryadarma

Api Kartini (1959-60) profile for Kartini Day of Utami Suryadarma, wife of the Air Force chief, presented as a leading woman of Indonesian women's organisations: Kowani foreign-information head, chair of the Children's Welfare Foundation, Armed Forces arts committee and an AURI wives' committee, and founder of a girls'

GA-00111 1959 Kukilowarsi rel C licensed

Menengok Sejenak ke Belakang

A Brief Look Back

Article by Kukilowarsi (1959) for 17 August, recalling women's roles in the Indonesian revolution: 1926 rebels and Digul exiles, anti-Japanese resistance, women's guerrilla brigades, Red Cross and kitchens, and stories of Suparmi and a mother fighter. It cites the first women's congress of 1928, the 1955 vote, and dema

GA-02811 1959 Sulami rel A licensed

The Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part I (Sulami, 1959)

Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part I (Sulami, 1959)

Part I of Sulami's 1959 history of the Indonesian women's movement in WIDF's magazine: Kartini, Putri Merdika (1912), Wanita Sedar, the 1928 Women's Congress, the Congress League of Indonesian Women, and demands on marriage, education and voting rights through 1941, with PKI influence noted after 1920. Prefaces the bir

GA-02812 1959 Sulami rel A licensed

The Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part II (Sulami, 1959)

Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part II (Sulami, 1959)

Part II of Sulami's 1959 history: Indonesian women under Japanese occupation (Fujinkai, women coerced as 'geishas'), the 1945 proclamation, founding of Perwari (Klaten, Dec 1945), the formation of KOWANI (Solo, Feb 1946), its second congress at Madiun deciding to affiliate to WIDF, and women's role in partisan resistan

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-00116 1960 Sulami rel A licensed

Sarinah dari Abad ke Abad

Sarinah through the Ages

Short illustrated piece by Sulami (c. 1959-60), written for the anniversary of the August Revolution, tracing women's history from Kartini, the 1928 Youth Pledge and the 22 December 1928 women's congress to demands for equality, education and political rights. It cites Sukarno's Manipol and the book 'Sarinah', and urge

GA-02814 1960 Sulami rel A licensed

Kartini (Sulami, 1960)

Sulami's 1960 piece 'Kartini' for the anniversary of R.A. Kartini: biography (b. 1879, child-marriage custom, letters, schooling of girls, marriage as Regent's wife), Kartini as symbol for Indonesian women's national and emancipation struggle, quoting Sukarno's 1959 lecture. Paired with a parallel profile of Egyptian f

GA-02815 1960 Sulami rel A licensed

Minah (short story by Sulami, 1960)

Minah: short story (Sulami, 1960)

'Minah', a 1960 short story by Sulami in Women of the Whole World, winning that magazine's monthly contest. Set in colonial and Japanese-occupation Java: Minah fights for schooling at Kartini's school, is married off, then resists Japanese Commander Josida's attempt to take her as second wife; Josida is shot as the ind

GA-02816 1961 Sulami rel A licensed

The dawn is breaking (short story by Sulami, 1961)

The dawn is breaking: short story (Sulami, 1961)

1961 short story 'The dawn is breaking' by Sulami, 'our Indonesian correspondent', in Women of the Whole World. Peasant woman Sarinah, active in the peasant organisation, explains the new Agrarian Act and land reform to village women, including women's right to own land and head households; landlords pay the government

GA-02853 1963 WIDF rel A licensed

The Need for Social Services in Indonesia (WIDF, 1963): Gerwani kindergartens

The Need for Social Services in Indonesia: Gerwani kindergartens (WIDF, 1963)

1963 WIDF bulletin article 'The Need for Social Services in Indonesia': the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) and others push kindergartens. It reports a first National Seminar on kindergartens in 1959, teacher courses in 1961-62, the aim of one kindergarten per street, over 700 kindergartens (first started in 1951

GA-00104 1964 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Sedikit tentang Gerakan Wanita Indonesia

A Little about the Indonesian Women's Movement

Api Kartini (late 1964) history of the Indonesian women's movement for Youth Pledge Day, tracing Kartini, Isteri Sedar, Perwari, wartime Fujinkai and Gerwis's founding on 4 June 1950 from the Gerakan Wanita Sedar, its name change to Gerwani after merging with railway workers' wives and Perwin Menado, joining Kowani and

GA-02781 1964 rel A licensed

Working Women Shape Their Future: 2nd International Trade Union Conference on the Problems of Working Women, Bucharest, 11-16 May 1964

Working Women Shape Their Future: 2nd International Trade Union Conference on Working Women, Bucharest 1964

Proceedings volume published by the World Federation of Trade Unions (Prague, 1964) of the 2nd International Trade Union Conference on the Problems of Working Women, Bucharest, 11-16 May 1964: agenda reports, delegates' speeches, a Charter on the Economic and Social Rights of Working Women and a memorandum to the ILO.

GA-02860 1968 rel C licensed

The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women (Amara Raksasataya, 1968)

The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women (Raksasataya, 1968)

Chapter 'The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women' by Amara Raksasataya in The Annals of the American Academy (Jan. 1968, 'Women Around the World'). Surveys Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam: equal legal rights but modest office-holding; Thailand as case study of indirect influence. For