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GA-00652 1955-11-30 De Locomotief rel A

De Gerwani over het huwelijk (Gerwani on marriage), full page 30 Nov 1955

Gerwani on marriage: full page with four-point marriage programme

Whole scrambled page of De Locomotief, 30 Nov 1955, with the fullest text of Gerwani's four-point marriage programme for the Constituante: no coercion, abolition of child, forced and purchase marriages and mistresses, polygamy forbidden in principle, divorce open to both sexes before a court and support for divorced wo

GA-00708 1956-01-05 De Nieuwsgier rel A

De Gerwani en mevrouw Fatmawati (Gerwani and Mrs. Fatmawati)

Gerwani and Mrs Fatmawati: statement on a private divorce matter

De Nieuwsgier item (5 Jan 1956) on a Gerwani statement about Fatmawati Sukarno's divorce request: Gerwani calls it a private matter, defends free democratic marriage, regrets that certain parties exploited it to undermine national unity and the president's name, and uses it to demand a democratic marriage law.