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GA-00002 1961 rel A

Program Gerwani (Kongres IV), 1961

Gerwani Programme (Fourth Congress), 1961

DPP Gerwani booklet with the 33-point Program Perdjuangan ratified at the Fourth Congress (Jakarta, December 1961), revising the 1957 Solo program. Keeps demands for women village heads, a democratic marriage law and price control; claims over one million members and sets three slogans.

GA-02630 1961-01 rel B licensed

Komunisme dan Partai Komunis Indonesia, despatch Januari 1961 (Indonesia political affairs: communism and the PKI)

Communism and the PKI, Despatch of January 1961

US embassy Djakarta despatch compilation (Jan 1961) analysing communism and the PKI, including its front organisations. The overview describes Gerwani as the communist women's organisation used for price and anti-bomb demonstrations, affiliated with the WIDF (which funds trips abroad for prominent members), and contras