We Saw and Heard at the Council Meeting, Helsinki 1957: Umi Sardjono for Gerwani
WIDF magazine 1957 'We Saw and Heard at the Council Meeting' with delegate speeches at the Helsinki Council. Umi Sardjono, President of Gerwani (640,000 members), reports a nationwide marriage-law campaign, the 1955 elections (five Gerwani members in parliament, six in the Constituent Assembly, 52 provincial councillor
Woman and the Changing Marriage Pattern of Indonesia (van der Kroef, 1957)
Journal article by Justus M. van der Kroef (American Catholic Sociological Review, June 1957) on women's status and marriage in Indonesia: adat versus Islamic law, polygamy, divorce rates, colonial and revolutionary change. Surveys women's organisations (Perwari, Kowani) and notes Kowani's early left turn and WIDF cont
Part 1: The women's movement, the women of Indonesia (Asahi Shimbun, 16 January 1957)
Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 16 Jan 1957, p. 2), part 1 of a series on the women's movement among Indonesian women, apparently by a Japanese woman writer who visited. OCR is badly scrambled; fragments mention Sumatra, Jakarta, women's organisations, possibly polygamy, and New Delhi. No Gerwani name legible.