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GA-02341 1947-08-10 Sunday Worker rel A licensed

Indonesian Minister of Labor is a woman, Mrs. S. K. Trimurti

Sunday Worker, 10 August 1947, p. 8: Indonesian Minister of Labor is a woman, Mrs S.K. Trimurti

Sunday Worker, 10 Aug 1947, p. 8: the OCR contains only a crossword puzzle (clues and grid), so the catalogued article on S. K. Trimurti as Indonesia's woman Minister of Labor cannot be read or checked. No Gerwani/Gerwis content is verifiable.

GA-02328 1956-07-24 Daily Worker rel C licensed

Women Unionists from 42 Lands Hold Conference in Budapest (Indonesian delegate on equal pay)

Daily Worker, 24 July 1956: Women unionists from 42 lands hold conference in Budapest

Page 4 of the Daily Worker (New York, 24 Jul 1956) reporting a Budapest conference of women trade unionists from 42 countries called by the WFTU, which demanded equal pay and opportunities and paid maternity leave. An unnamed delegate from Indonesia is cited on women workers being treated as cheap labour. Gerwani is no

GA-01505 1964-12-14 South China Morning Post rel B licensed

Sukarno Rejects Demand For Ban On Sukarnoism (South China Morning Post, 14 Desember 1964)

Sukarno rejects demand for ban on Sukarnoism (South China Morning Post, 14 December 1964)

South China Morning Post, 14 Dec 1964, p.28 (Jakarta, 13 Dec; fragmentary OCR): Sukarno rejects a demand to ban 'Sukarnoism', and the item notes that Antara reported hundreds of members of Gerwani, 'the Communist women's organisation', demonstrated outside government offices in Medan the previous Wednesday with signs d

GA-01522 1973-10-11 The Guardian rel B licensed

Ten torture cases to be used by Amnesty (The Guardian, 11 Oktober 1973)

Ten torture cases to be used by Amnesty (The Guardian, 11 October 1973)

The Guardian, 11 Oct 1973, p.8, Peter Cole: Amnesty International launches Prisoner of Conscience Week with ten emblematic torture cases. One is an Indonesian woman, Mrs Sri Ambar[...] (surname cut off in OCR), head of the women's department of the SOBSI trade union federation, who after arrest in 1966 was stripped nak

GA-02331 1975-07-02 Daily World rel C licensed

Mexico Conferees Tie Women's Freedom to Economic Problems (Women under capitalism; Indonesian delegate)

Daily World, 2 July 1975: Mexico conferees tie women's freedom to economic problems

Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 2 Jul 1975) with a special report from the UN International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City. Delegates from Italy, Fiji, Norway and Indonesia describe discrimination against women workers under capitalism, including lower pay and unemployment; tensions between US feminists a

GA-02336 1975-07-03 Daily World rel C licensed

WFTU condemns jailings of Indonesian workers, SOBSI ban

Daily World, 3 July 1975: WFTU condemns jailings of Indonesian workers and SOBSI ban

Daily World, 3 July 1975, p. 5: page of mixed US labour news; the Indonesia item (Prague) reports the WFTU condemning the imprisonment of thousands of political prisoners in Indonesian military compounds and demanding that the ban on SOBSI be lifted, calling both violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

GA-01533 1979-10-14 The Observer rel B licensed

'Children are tortured' (The Observer, 14 Oktober 1979)

'Children are tortured' (The Observer, 14 October 1979)

The Observer, 14 Oct 1979, p.2, Ian Mather, 'Children are tortured': on an Amnesty International report on torture of children in many countries. For Indonesia it reports that the daughter of Sri Ambar, a woman trade unionist, was tortured in her mother's presence and disappeared, that many children arrested in 1965 re