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GA-00857 1954-01-27 De Waarheid rel A

Met het congres van de Gerwis in zicht

With the Gerwis congress in sight: Jakarta feature on preparations

De Waarheid, 27 Jan 1954, p. 5: correspondent's Jakarta feature ahead of Gerwis's second congress (opening 26 March 1954), describing its literacy courses, hygiene campaigns, defence of women under customary law, wage struggles (Sampurna cigarette factory Surabaya, Kaliklatak coffee estate) with SARBUPRI, and the mass

GA-01483 1955-09-21 Harian Rakjat rel C

Harian Rakjat, 21 September 1955, hlm. 4

Harian Rakjat, 21 September 1955, p. 4

Harian Rakjat, 21 September 1955, hlm. 4. Feature on collective newspaper-reading groups among housewives in China, where wives learn to read and settle quarrels; context for women and literacy in the PKI press.

GA-03409 1965-09-24 Neue Zeit rel B licensed

Neue Zeit, 24 September 1965, S. 4: Selbständig und gleichberechtigt (Halme des Reises als Symbol des Glücks)

Neue Zeit, 24 Sep 1965, p. 4: Independent and equal (stalks of rice as a symbol of happiness)

Neue Zeit, 24 September 1965, p. 4 (women's page): ADN reportage "Halme des Reises als Symbol des Glücks – Selbständig und gleichberechtigt" by ADN Jakarta correspondent Helga Pe[...] on Indonesian women's life. It claims women drive cars, work as police and journalists, make up almost half of students and that the dep

GA-02333 1969-01-11 Daily World rel C licensed

Women's political rights worldwide, including Indonesia illiteracy figures

Daily World, 11 January 1969: Women's political rights worldwide

Daily World, 11 Jan 1969, p. M-5: feature on women's political rights worldwide, covering suffrage dates, education and the work-family dilemma. Indonesia appears only in passing, with the figure that some years earlier 42% of Indonesian men and 70% of women were illiterate, and as a country granting women equal status

GA-01591 1984-07-08 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 8 Juli 1984: 'Mengarahkan remaja dari sikap frustasi'

Berita Yudha, 8 July 1984: Steering teenagers away from frustration

Berita Yudha, 8 July 1984, p. 4: youth-page essay using 1965 as a warning, saying teenagers drawn to the 'PKI education system' were used to murder the generals at Lubang Buaya; Gerwani invoked in passing.

GA-03006 2012 rel A

Frau L's Kampf für Gerechtigkeit: Die 80-jährige Lestari wünscht sich, dass niemand mehr Angst vor ihr hat (Keller, 2012)

Frau L's fight for justice: 80-year-old Lestari wishes that no one fears her any more (Keller, 2012)

Anett Keller's 2012 reportage (südostasien, German) on Lestari, an 80-year-old Gerwani co-founder in a Jakarta house of ex-prisoners: Gerwani's literacy and kindergarten work, her husband a PKI East Java leader, flight, arrest in Malang, 1979 release and life as an 'ET' domestic worker. Life-history portrait.