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2 itemsTopic: women's rights and emancipation ✕Theme: 1965 and its aftermath ✕Year: 1953 ✕
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GA-00261 1953-12-18 Daily Mirror rel B

National and Foreign News in Brief (Daily Mirror, 18 Dec 1953)

National and Foreign News in Brief (Daily Mirror, 18 December 1953)

Daily Mirror (Sydney), 18 December 1953, p. 11, a page of national and foreign news briefs. Only one item concerns Indonesia: a short AP report from Jakarta that 2,000 sarong-clad Indonesian women jammed the capital's streets demanding a government ban on polygamy and child marriage. No organisation is named. The other

GA-00777 1953-12-31 De Vrije Pers rel C

Bloemlezing uit het nieuws (News anthology; Moestopo defends polygamy)

News anthology: Moestopo defends polygamy and pensions for four wives

News digest in De Vrije Pers (31 Dec 1953). Colonel Dr. Moestopo, for the "Corps of Fighting Women", defended polygamy and the pension rule for up to four wives, arguing withdrawal would stimulate prostitution. Gerwis is not named, but this is context for the contemporary polygamy debate.