Api Kartini (1964) article 'Racism in the Land of Dollars' on discrimination against 19 million African Americans (Birmingham bombing, voting restrictions), condemning also the 10 May 1963 anti-Chinese racist riots in West Java. The page continues with a short piece on a May book fair at Gedung Pemuda and encouraging w
Api Kartini (Aug-Sept 1964) report on women's participation in 17 August 1964 celebrations inspired by Sukarno's 'Tavip' speech (Year of Living Dangerously). Describes the Gerwani DPP rally on 15 August, where over 700 Gerwani Dwikora volunteers from the Jakarta training centre (Tiswati Jaya) swore oath, then the Merde
Api Kartini (late 1964) article on Sukarno's 'The Era of Confrontation' speech at the Second Non-Aligned Summit, Cairo (5-10 October 1964), applied to Indonesia: confrontation with Malaysia and with the 'seven village devils' (landlords) in the interest of peasant women. Also carries a Kowani delegation's impressions o
Report (1964) on the opening of the 10th Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani) at Istora, Jakarta, with extracts of Hurustiati Subandrio's speech and Sukarno's address. Sukarno calls for 'Manipolist' women, a cooperative body uniting women's organisations, and warns against admitting persons linked to subversion or bann