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GA-03343 1955-03-02 Indian Daily Mail rel A

Indonesian Women's 3rd Congress (Palembang, 2-6 March 1955)

Indonesian Women's 3rd Congress, Palembang, 2-6 March 1955 (Indian Daily Mail)

Indian Daily Mail (Singapore), 2 March 1955, p. 1: the third Indonesian Women's Congress is held in Palembang, 2-6 March, with 300 delegates of women's organisations. Preparatory committee chair is Mrs S.A. Hanafiah (Gerwani), secretary Mrs R. Mailan (Gerwani), treasurer Mrs Djauhari; Perwari, Gerwani, Wanita Demokrat

GA-03335 1963-02-06 Berita Harian rel B

SOBSI, Partindo dan Gerwani bantah Kerajaan Singapura (Indonesian left-wing parties protest)

SOBSI, Partindo and Gerwani protest to Singapore government (Berita Harian, 1963)

Berita Harian, 6 February 1963, p. 3: SOBSI, Partindo and Gerwani send a protest to the Singapore government over the previous week's arrests of left-wing figures (Operation Coldstore); SOBSI blames the British and Tunku Abdul Rahman. The clipping is damaged and ends abruptly; Gerwani is only one of three protesting bo

GA-03349 1963-02-06 The Straits Times rel B

Sobsi protest to Singapore Government over mass arrests (Arrests: Indonesian groups protest)

SOBSI protest to Singapore government over mass arrests (Straits Times, 1963)

The Straits Times, 6 February 1963, p. 10, Reuters: SOBSI cables the Singapore government protesting the mass arrests of left-wing people the previous weekend and demanding release of detainees; Partindo and the Gerwani Women's Movement 'have also protested'. Brief mention of Gerwani among Indonesian left organisations

GA-03347 1963-03-25 The Straits Times rel B

Java Reds in protest march (Purwokerto)

Java Reds in protest march, Purwokerto (Straits Times, 1963)

The Straits Times, 25 March 1963, p. 2, UPI/Antara: 1,500 communists demonstrate in Purwokerto, Central Java, against high prices and the cost of living; participants came from the PKI and affiliates including Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani, BTI and Lekra. They petition for lower prices and the inclusion of communists in the C

GA-03334 1964-08-05 Berita Harian rel A

GERWANI mahu tutup pejabat2 USIS

Gerwani wants US Information Service offices closed (Berita Harian, 1964)

Berita Harian, 5 August 1964, p. 3, Reuters: Gerwani, described as a left-wing women's movement, cabled Sukarno demanding closure of the US Information Service, return of Peace Corps volunteers training Indonesian athletes, and condemned the Johnson-Tunku Abdul Rahman joint statement, per the PKI paper Harian Rakyat. S

GA-03332 1965-01-23 Berita Harian rel A

Aidit tudoh Chaerul Saleh buat fitnah (speech to Gerwani)

Aidit accuses Chaerul Saleh of fabricating a document (speech to Gerwani, Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian, 23 January 1965, p. 3: D.N. Aidit, speaking to Gerwani, accuses Deputy Prime Minister Chaerul Saleh of spreading a forged document claiming the PKI planned to seize power in 1970; he says he reported this to Sukarno. Clipping is partly unreadable. Shows Aidit using Gerwani as an audience for PKI rebuttal

GA-03340 1965-06-08 Berita Harian rel A

Amaran terhadap gerakan pertubohan wanita (Watch out for women's organisations, says a man)

Warning against women's organisations' movement (Sudibjo at a Gerwani rally, Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian, 8 June 1965, p. 3, Reuters: at a Gerwani political-military rally, National Front secretary-general Sudibjo warns the public to be vigilant against 'womanish' bourgeois women's organisations that are 'afraid of politics' and 'afraid of the people' and want to 'lure men'. Shows Gerwani's mobilisation in 1

GA-03325 1965-06-10 Berita Harian rel A

Negara2 yang sokong Malaysia jangan hadhir dlm sidang di-Algiers (Sukarno to a Gerwani rally)

States backing Malaysia should not attend the Algiers conference: Sukarno to a Gerwani rally (Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian (Singapore), 10 June 1965, p. 3, Reuters report: Sukarno, speaking to 10,000 'Communist women of Gerwani', says states backing Malaysia, Israel and South Korea should stay away from the Algiers Afro-Asian conference and that he will go with a Nasakom delegation including women's organisations. Shows Gerwa

GA-03333 1965-07-26 Berita Harian rel A

PKI tuntut halau Duta (Gerwani demand against US ambassador Green)

PKI demands expulsion of US ambassador (Gerwani demand, Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian, 26 July 1965, p. 3: the PKI renews its demand that Sukarno cancel acceptance of new US ambassador Marshall Green; the demand, issued through its women's organisation Gerwani, also asks Sukarno to break diplomatic relations with the United States. Clipping breaks off. Evidence of Gerwani's anti-American c