Native Court of Tanjungraja

Original name: Pengadilan Asli Tanjungraja
Type: Indonesian state/army/court
Country: Indonesia
Also written as: Pengadilan Asli Tanjungraja; Pengadilan Asli Tandjungradja

1955 – 1955

Often appears with

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) 3 Maisuri 3 Hadji Achmad 3 A.K. Hadi 3 Kojum 3

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GA-01046 1955-02-11 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel A

Door vader gesloten huwelijk geldig? (de zaak Maisuri)

Marriage concluded by father valid? (the Maisuri case)

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (11 Feb 1955, p.4): in a customary-court retrial in Tanjungraja, village girl Maisuri, forced by her father to marry a 45-year-old hadji, is defended by lawyer Mr Muwalladi provided by the women's association Gerwani. She had married Kojum, her own choice, and was sentenced with him and her

GA-00642 1955-02-12 De Locomotief rel A

Nationale kwestie geworden: heronderzoek dwanghuwelijk van minderjarig meisje (The Maisuri case re-examined)

Now a national issue: re-examination of the Maisuri forced-marriage case

De Locomotief, 12 Feb 1955: the adat court at Tanjungraja re-examines the Maisuri case, a village girl forced by her father to marry a 45-year-old hadji, who instead married the youth she chose and was sentenced to six months with her husband and uncle. Prominent Palembang women and delegates of Gerwani's South Sumatra

GA-01145 1955-02-16 Indische Courant Voor Nederland rel A

Heronderzoek dwanghuwelijk van minderjarig meisje (Re-examination of forced marriage of a minor girl; Maisuri case)

Re-examination of forced marriage of a minor girl (Maisuri case)

Indische Courant voor Nederland, 16 Feb 1955, p. 3: the customary court at Tanjungraja re-examines the Maisuri case, a village girl forced to marry a 45-year-old hadji who sentenced her and her chosen husband to six months. Gerwani South Sumatra delegates attend; Gerwani and other women's groups made it a national issu