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GA-00682 1953-03-31 De Nieuwsgier rel A

Vrouwencongres in Djakarta (Women's congress in Jakarta)

Women's congress in Jakarta initiated by Gerwis

De Nieuwsgier, 31 Mar 1953: on Gerwis's initiative a conference of women's organisation representatives from across Indonesia will meet in Jakarta on 2-3 April to collect data on Indonesian women's social, economic and political struggle, discuss the WIDF world women's congress in Denmark in June and consider sending a

GA-02831 1954 WIDF rel A licensed

Indonesia: Miss Darmini of the G.E.R.W.I.S. (WIDF, 1954)

Indonesia: Miss Darmini of Gerwis (WIDF, 1954)

WIDF 1954 profile of Miss Darmini of GERWIS, reporting to a WIDF meeting. Membership rose from 6,000 at the 1951 first congress to 37,000 by 1953 and about 600,000 prior to the March 1954 second congress (as printed); the Union of Railway Workers' Wives affiliated. She describes campaigns on women's rights, maternity l

GA-02601 1965-12-21 rel C

Airgram A-408: Joint Weeka no. 48, 21 Desember 1965

Airgram A-408: Joint Weeka no. 48, 21 Dec 1965

US Embassy Joint Weeka no. 48 (airgram A-408), 21 Dec 1965: estimates 100,000 PKI deaths and 10,000 on Bali; notes Sukarno addressing the 20th anniversary of Perwari. Only women-related scene is a non-communist women's group used as a stage.

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