1948 – 1985
Berliner Zeitung, 7 March 1948, p. 1: front-page report "80-Millionen-Frauenprotest gegen Krieg" on the WIDF (IDFF) appeal for International Women's Day, issued in the name of 80 million women from 48 countries. It denounces US imperialist war-making and calls on women to protest the war in Vietnam and Indonesia. Indon
Berliner Zeitung, 7 March 1948, p. 2: continuation of the front-page item "80-Millionen-Frauenprotest gegen Krieg". The page carries only the end of the TASS report on the CPSU Central Committee's International Women's Day appeal (Soviet women's achievements, 43% of specialists women, call to promote women). No mention
De Waarheid report (9 Jul 1948) on the WIDF international women's exhibition in Paris (12 Jun-18 Jul, 42 countries). The Dutch Women's Movement stand had a section on Indonesia, opposing colonial war; the article contrasts Western capitalism with Eastern Europe, China and the USSR. No Indonesian women's group is named.
De Waarheid report (29 Dec 1948) on the second WIDF congress in Budapest (1-6 Dec, 600+ women, 54 countries), framed as a Soviet-led peace front against "Anglo-American imperialism". Dutch Labour women are chided over the colonial war in Indonesia; Indonesian women are not among the delegates named.
De Waarheid call (5 Mar 1949) for Dutch women to demonstrate on International Women's Day for peace: against the colonial war in Indonesia, the Marshall Plan and Atlantic Pact, for troop withdrawal and equal pay, with Soviet women held up as models and WIDF president Cotton quoted. Concerns Dutch communist women; no In
OSS/State Department intelligence report (1 Aug 1949) on the Women's International Democratic Federation as a communist front: origins in the Soviet Anti-Fascist Committee of Women, 1945 Paris founding, leaders (Cotton, Popova, Ibarruri, Cai Chang), membership claims and Asia activities. Indonesia is mentioned only in
De Waarheid explanatory legend (8 Oct 1949) to a world map of the "peace camp", listing country-by-country assessments. Indonesia is described as "mass struggle in all parts of the Archipelago for the definitive national liberation"; a table gives WIDF membership as 80 million. No Gerwani content.
FBIS monitored Peking radio report (13 Dec 1949) on day three of the Asian Women's Conference: Teng Ying-chao's report, speeches by delegates including an unnamed (OCR garbled) Indonesian delegate who urged an all-national united front under the Indonesian Communist Party; Dutch, French, Indochinese, Soviet speakers. E
Berliner Zeitung, 14 March 1952, p. 2: "Die herrlichste Sache der Welt...", a reception report in which women from five countries welcome the Soviet draft peace treaty for Germany. A young Indonesian woman, Darmini, about to return home, says Indonesia's people value cooperation with Germany and await the treaty. Indon
Neues Deutschland, 29 March 1952, p. 2: report 'Großberliner Schülerkonferenz' on a Berlin schoolchildren's conference organised by the German Society for the Protection of Children, with WIDF representatives present. The Indonesian kindergarten teacher Darmini, with Jeanette Turner of the USA, described the catastroph
FBIS-monitored Chinese Home Service excerpts (6 Jun 1952): press interview with Indonesian delegates Suwarti and Surjonegoro in Peking. They described Indonesian livelihood under foreign capital, the land question, US aid and the rubber embargo (prices down about 70%), and said over 600,000 Indonesians signed a request
FBIS-monitored Pyongyang radio text (4 Mar 1953) of a Korean Workers' Party Central Committee decision for International Women's Day: praises Korean women in the war, calls for wartime production and vigilance. One line lists the 'awakened democratic women of India, Indonesia' and others in the WIDF-led struggle (WIDF
De Waarheid, 17 Mar 1953, p. 3: one-sentence Jakarta dispatch (9 March) that the Indonesian women's federation Gerwis sent a condolence telegram to the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women on Stalin's death. Evidence of Gerwis's ties to the Soviet women's committee.
De Waarheid, 24 Feb 1954, p. 4: Jakarta report that the Indonesian government wants more sales of Indonesian products in the USSR and trade with people's democracies (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, GDR, Bulgaria); rubber prices rose on a Soviet purchase. A photo note on the Indonesian National Peace Congress (late January) n
Soviet Woman, 28 Feb 1954, p. 30: article by Rantijem (SOBSI National Council member), written after her Nov 1953 USSR tour with a trade union delegation, on Indonesian women's conditions. Describes legal bars to women's state and foreign-firm work, unequal pay (4.30 rupees/day vs 155.49 subsistence minimum), no matern
De Waarheid, 10 Mar 1954, p. 5: excerpts from an article by Umi (Sardjono), Gerwis board member, in Harian Rakjat preparing Gerwis's second congress. She lists invitations to women's groups in the USSR, China, Netherlands, India and WIDF, and stresses plantation and factory women, mass dismissals driving women into pro
FBIS-monitored Jakarta radio item (11 Mar 1954): two delegates of the Soviet Anti-Fascist Women's Committee will attend the Second Gerwis Congress in Jakarta, 24-31 March, at the invitation of the Gerwis central committee; delegates from other Eastern-bloc countries will also attend. Evidence of Gerwis's socialist-bloc
FBIS item (12 Mar 1954): the Gerwis congress committee invited women's organisations in Britain, the Netherlands, the USSR, India, China and Australia to the congress due 24-31 March; the People's Republic of China reportedly said it could not send a delegation.
De Waarheid, 19 Mar 1954, p. 3: Jakarta dispatch that the Soviet Anti-Fascist Women's Committee will send two delegates, Alexandra Cholopowa (Kholopova) and Katherina Ljowa, with an interpreter, to the Gerwis congress. Also notes Harian Rakjat printing a photo of the NVB's fundraising soap, showing Indonesian sympathy
De Vrije Pers item (6 Apr 1954), citing Suluh Indonesia: three Soviet women (A. Kholopova of Moscow University, a poetess and a translator) arrived in Jakarta to attend the Gerwani congress and gave a talk on women's position in the USSR; the paper remarks they wore no lipstick and simple dresses.
Java-Bode, 6 April 1954, p. 2: citing Suluh Indonesia, three Soviet women (A. Kholopova of Moscow University, poetess K. Sowilyowa, translator T. Gerinewa) arrived in Jakarta for the Gerwani congress and lectured at Podium on Soviet women's position and rights. The paper remarks on their lack of lipstick and simple dre
Berliner Zeitung, 11 April 1954, p. 2. The relevant item is a one-sentence news brief in the page's digest column: thousands of women gave the Soviet women's delegation a warm reception in Surakarta, where it is on a study visit to Indonesia. No Indonesian organisation or person is named, and no Gerwani mention; the pa
Java-Bode, 23 April 1954, p. 2: Gerwani held a Wednesday-evening meeting at Adhuc Stat to welcome foreign women's delegates. Australian delegate Allison Diekei, Dutch delegate Rie Lips and Soviet delegate Alexandra Kholopova spoke on women's position in their countries; Kholopova also described study opportunities for
Tribune (Sydney), 12 May 1954, p. 11: Allison Dickie, Union of Australian Women delegate, reports on the 1954 Indonesian women's congress. She describes Gerwis, the league of women 'more politically awake', whose work helped hundreds of thousands become literate and from which Gerwani developed; the six-day Gerwani Nat
Tribune (Sydney), 12 May 1954, p. 11: Allison Dickie, Union of Australian Women delegate, reports on the 1954 Indonesian women's congress. She describes Gerwis, the league of women 'more politically awake', whose work helped hundreds of thousands become literate and from which Gerwani developed; the six-day Gerwani Nat
De Nieuwsgier, 7 Aug 1954: a Dutch-Indonesian paper recounts that Russian delegates invited to the Gerwani congress arrived after it ended but toured Java with organisers. Ekaterina Sheveleva's Izvestia report praises roads built by colonisers, laments farmers' primitive tools and notes a women's union meeting at a rai
CIA weekly 'Recent Communist Conciliatory Gestures...' (9 Aug 1954), a long chronology of Soviet-bloc exchanges. The only Gerwani item (p.24, 1 August 1954) says the Indonesian women's organisation GERWANI, labelled Communist-front, was reported planning to send ten women on a three-week tour of the USSR, reciprocating
FBIS item (25 Sep 1954): on 24 September three Indonesian women who recently visited the Soviet Union lectured on their impressions: social care of women, workers, equal rights, absence of prostitution and marriage legislation. The meeting, sponsored by Gerwani, drew a large audience of women and trade unionists. Shows
De Waarheid, 29 Sep 1954, p. 5: Dutch printing of an account from Soviet Woman by Soviet delegates Alexandra Cholopowa and Jekaterina Sjeweljowa on their three-week visit to Indonesia at Gerwani's invitation. They describe the word 'damai' (peace), women workers' and plantation conditions in East Java and Bandung, the
Neues Deutschland, 17 November 1954, p. 8: short item 'Gemeinsam sind wir Frauen stark' on an international WIDF delegation visiting the VEB Werk für Fernmeldewesen in Berlin-Oberschöneweide. The delegation list includes 'Frau Maasie, Indonesien' (probably Maasje Siwi of Gerwani, though the page does not say so). She i
Soviet Woman, 31 Dec 1954, p. 4: Supardjo, an Indonesian public figure of Taman Siswa, reflects on the first Indonesian women's delegation's three-week USSR tour (factories, collective farms, schools). Stresses peace, the Indonesian Peace Committee and anti-illiteracy work. Gerwis/Gerwani are not named, but it document
De Locomotief, 2 Feb 1955: a Russian trade union delegation, a WFTU representative and SOBSI leaders are welcomed in Semarang by hundreds of SOBSI members, including Gerwani, forming guards of honour along the railway track. A lecture by the Russian guests is planned at the Gedung Kesenian.
Neues Deutschland, 3 December 1955, p. 1. ADN report 'Rechte der Frauen unantastbar' on the festive rally for the 10th anniversary of the IDFF (WIDF) in the Deutsche Sporthalle, Berlin, with 3,000 women. Indonesia appears only in a list of countries whose WIDF representatives attended; no Indonesian is named and Gerwan
Java-Bode, 23 January 1956, p. 2: the Gerwani central board wrote to the government welcoming Pope Pius XII's endorsement of painless childbirth, credited the theory's discoverer, Soviet professor Pavlov, and urged the government to let Indonesian scholars learn it for mass application. Other snippets (Kalimantan impor
Short item, Indische Courant voor Nederland, 4 Feb 1956, p. 3: the Gerwani central board writes to the government welcoming Pope Pius XII's acceptance of painless childbirth, praising its Soviet discoverer Pavlov, and asking that Indonesian scientists be enabled to learn the method for mass application.
De Waarheid, 24 May 1956, p. 4: report on eight Indonesian women briefly in Amsterdam en route to the international conference of working women in Budapest (until 17 June), after a Soviet visit. They represent health, tea or cigarette, industrial and union workers, including Suhartini, Sutjati, Sudjinem, Supinah, Sumar
Bintang Timur (Jakarta daily), 28 May 1956, full issue. A short foreign-news item on page 3 reports that a delegation of Indonesian women workers arrived in Moscow at the invitation of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, led by Setiati Surasto, Sarbupri's Secretary for Economic Affairs, and planning a tour o
Pravda, 5 Sept 1956 (No. 249), partial issue (pp. 1, 4, 6, machine-translated): TASS and correspondents' reports on President Sukarno's tour of the USSR (Sverdlovsk, Tashkent) and Indonesian reactions. On p. 6 O. Chechetkina quotes Darmini, 'one of the leaders of the mass women's organization Gerwani', hailing the visi
Keyword-hit excerpt of Pravda, No. 249, 5 Sept 1956, report by correspondent O. Chechetkina (Jakarta, 4 Sept) on Indonesian reactions to President Sukarno's visit to the USSR. D. N. Aidit and Darmini, 'one of the leaders of the mass women's organization Gerwani', hail it as the first visit of Indonesia's president to t
CIA bulletin of travel by bloc and non-bloc delegations. Citing Harian Rakjat (30 June 1956), it lists the Indonesian parliamentary delegation to the USSR, Poland and Czechoslovakia (September 1956), including 'Mrs Ch. Salawati of the PKI' (identified by the sweep as Charlotte Salawati Daud) with Sakirman. A separate l
Pravda, 8 March 1957 (No. 67), p. 4 only (machine-translated): International Women's Day page with statements by Cai Chang (China), the WIDF president, Syrian and Soviet women, and 'Ban atomic and hydrogen weapons!' by T. Sulami, member of Indonesia's national 8 March Committee. She stresses women's role in the 1954 el
Keyword-hit excerpt of Pravda, No. 67, c. 8 March 1957, International Women's Day statements. Includes Cai Chang on Chinese women and a signed text by T. Sulami, member of Indonesia's national March 8 Committee: women's role in the 1954 [sic, 1955] elections (16 women MPs, 33 Konstituante members), 20-fold growth in sc
Short 1957 WIDF magazine item: President Sukarno, visiting Tashkent, was asked by the Urazayev family to name their newborn daughter and chose 'Youldous Sukharno' ('little star'), symbolising Soviet-Indonesian friendship. Gerwani is not mentioned; it illustrates Sukarno's 1956-57 Soviet bloc visits and friendship propa
Harian Rakjat, 30 Jan 1957, p. 3: the page carries only the headline 'Laporan harus wajar - Tentang pendidikan di Sovyet Uni' by Ny. Mudigdio; the article body is not recoverable from the OCR. Page 4 advertises Soviet booklets on women's right to education. Page 1 covers Hatta and the Konsepsi Presiden debate. Mudigdio
CIA compilation of reference data (February 1957, data to 1 October 1956) on international communist-front organisations and friendship societies, including the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF). The WIDF directory lists headquarters, publications, executive officers and national affiliates. Under Indo
Renmin Ribao, 8 Mar 1957, p. 6, Weng Hua: International Women's Day survey of women's struggles for peace and rights worldwide, WIDF growth, wage inequality and conditions in socialist countries. Only Indonesian item: an unnamed Indonesian women's organisation said to have grown from 6,000 members three years earlier t
Renmin Ribao, 8 Mar 1957, p. 6, Weng Hua: International Women's Day survey of women's struggles for peace and rights worldwide, WIDF growth, wage inequality and conditions in socialist countries. Only Indonesian item: an unnamed Indonesian women's organisation said to have grown from 6,000 members three years earlier t
Page 4 of Pravda (8 March 1957), International Women's Day, carrying a statement signed 'T. Sulami, member of the national 8 March Committee of the Republic of Indonesia'. She describes Indonesian women's life and struggle, sixteen women elected to parliament and 33 to the Constituent Assembly, rising schooling, anti-c
Pravda, 16/18 June 1957 (No. 167), only p. 5 supplied (machine-translated): a poem 'Merdeka' on Indonesian independence and a short TASS item on the creation of Indonesia's National Council under Sukarno (Roeslan Abdulgani as deputy chair). The supplied pages do not contain the WIDF or Sardjono speech named in the cata
Nieuwe Haarlemsche Courant, 6 February 1958, p. 5: long profile of Sukarno by former correspondent C.H. Schaap, calling him an 'arch-intriguer' bent on absolute power, tracing his career to the 1957 cabinet. It mentions that his October 1954 second marriage to Hartini caused general indignation among Indonesian women,
CIA/US government study (September 1958) surveying the activities of the international Communist fronts (World Peace Council, Afro-Asian Solidarity Council, WFDY/IUS, WIDF, WFTU and others) in 1958. Chapter IV covers WIDF's Fourth Congress (Vienna, 1-5 June 1958) and secretariat. Gerwani appears only briefly: Suharti (
Tribune magazine page, 1 Oct 1958, p. 6: Mary Lester (Union of Australian Women, Perth) reports on the Fourth World Congress of Women (WIDF, Vienna, June 1958; 76 countries). Themes: atomic-test ban, status of women, children's education. Indonesia appears only in passing: two women MPs from Indonesia, with Indian and
Tribune magazine page, 1 Oct 1958, p. 6: Mary Lester (Union of Australian Women, Perth) reports on the Fourth World Congress of Women (WIDF, Vienna, June 1958; 76 countries). Themes: atomic-test ban, status of women, children's education. Indonesia appears only in passing: two women MPs from Indonesia, with Indian and
Api Kartini (1959) article for 7 November (Russian Revolution anniversary) on the women of the Soviet Union. Reports a gathering in Jakarta where Soviet Supreme Soviet member Zaripova, visiting Indonesia, described women's advancement since 1917 (366 women of 1,378 deputies; 85% of health workers women) and the Soviet
Api Kartini (1959) article on how the WIDF (GWDS) and millions of women abroad supported Indonesia's independence struggle, noting Gerwani as an Indonesian member. Recounts WIDF's 1947 message to the UN against the Dutch aggression, Dutch women's protests (Schoonhoven, NVB), 1949 actions and later solidarity on Irian B
Pravda, 25 Jan 1959 (No. 25), p. 1 only (machine-translated): TASS notice that delegations of the Communist Parties of Indonesia (D.N. Aidit, Nursuhud, Karel Supit, P.O. Hutapea and 'Suharti, a responsible worker of the CC apparatus') and India arrived for the CPSU 21st Congress. Suharti (identified in the catalogue as
Pravda, 3 Feb 1959 (No. 34), pp. 2 and 10 (machine-translated): coverage of the CPSU 21st Congress. On p. 2 the PKI delegation visits the Moscow Electric Lamp Factory; Aidit speaks, and Suharti of the PKI CC greets the women workers on behalf of Indonesian women (OCR ambiguous). P. 10 reports the delegation laying a wr
Renmin Ribao, 9 Apr 1959, p. 4 (Xinhua, Jakarta): PKI delegation led by Aidit returns from the CPSU's 21st Congress via China and Vietnam. Gerwani leaders are named only among those greeting it at the airport, with Njono, PKI MPs, SOBSI and Pemuda Rakjat.
Renmin Ribao, 9 Apr 1959, p. 4 (Xinhua, Jakarta): PKI delegation led by Aidit returns from the CPSU's 21st Congress via China and Vietnam. Gerwani leaders are named only among those greeting it at the airport, with Njono, PKI MPs, SOBSI and Pemuda Rakjat.
Algemeen Dagblad (1959-11-06, p. 7): second part of Allen W. Dulles's essay on Soviet and Chinese economic and subversive penetration of developing countries. Lists Indonesia among arms recipients and names the WIDF, with trade-union, youth and peace bodies, as a communist 'front organisation'. Cold War framing context
Api Kartini (late 1960) item on strengthening Indonesia-USSR friendship: state visits by Sukarno and Khrushchev, cultural and economic agreements, Indonesian students at Friendship University, Soviet-built Asian Games stadium and a Soviet industrial exhibition in Jakarta. Reports that after the Copenhagen assembly an I
Pravda, No. 40, c. 9 Feb 1960, p. 3 (selected page). Jakarta dispatch 'The voice of Indonesian mothers' (8 Feb): women's-movement activist Sri Slamet, SOBSI National Council member Setiati Surasto and mother Maruto Nitimihardjo welcome Khrushchev's planned visit and general-disarmament proposal. Also a Gromyko-Adam Mal
Keyword-hit excerpt of Pravda, No. 40, c. 9 Feb 1960, 'The voice of Indonesian mothers' (Jakarta, 8 Feb): women's activist Sri Slamet, SOBSI National Council member Setiati Surasto and mother Maruto Nitimihardjo greet Khrushchev's coming visit and back his general-disarmament proposal, framed as the wish of Indonesian
Compilation of State Department central-file items on Soviet relations with Indonesia, 1960-63 (telegrams, airgrams, despatches). One airgram (7 Dec) 'Soviets Woo Indo Women' describes the Soviet ambassador's wife hosting Indonesian women's leaders at the embassy, noting Gedung Wanita as a hub for Gerwani and Kongres W
Pravda, 2 Mar 1960 (No. 62), pp. 1-3, 5 (machine-translated): coverage of the end of Khrushchev's 12-day visit to Indonesia (farewell speeches by Khrushchev and Sukarno; Calcutta stop). Pp. 2-3 report a farewell meeting on 29 Feb with delegates of mass organisations, naming 'the Indonesian women's movement (Gerwani)' a
Keyword-hit excerpt of Pravda, No. 62, 2 March 1960, report 'People must live happily!' on Khrushchev's Indonesia visit. Leading figures of SOBSI, BTI, Pemuda Rakjat, the women's movement Gerwani, the Peace Committee, the Soviet friendship society and Lekra gathered with gifts at his residence; SOBSI's Njono spoke of f
FBIS-monitored Moscow text (8 Mar 1960) of Yekaterina Furtseva's Pravda article 'Women and the Building of Communism' for the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day: Marxist-Leninist emancipation theory, Soviet statistics on women in work, soviets and science, contrast with capitalist 'free world', peace and dis
Neue Zeit, 24 November 1960, p. 1: front-page report "Die große Beratung unserer Frauen hat begonnen" on the opening of the 7th DFD Federal Congress in East Berlin, with greetings from the Council of State and government and Ilse Thiele's keynote. Indonesia is only named among the countries (with India, Ghana, Iraq, th
November 1961 issue: a report on torture of women political prisoners in South Vietnam, a Heroes Day essay linking Indonesia to Algeria, Angola, Congo and Cuba, and peace letters between Ratu Aminah Hidajat and Nina Popova.
Api Kartini (1961) exchange of open letters on peace between Ny. A. Hidayat, a leader of the Indonesian peace committee, and Nina Popova of the Soviet women's movement, about nuclear tests, disarmament and the Soviet space flights of Gagarin and Titov. The page also carries a mother's letter to school-age children. Pea
Renmin Ribao, 16 Dec 1961, p. 3 (Xinhua, Jakarta): Gerwani's Fourth National Congress opens on 14 Dec with over 400 delegates; Umi Sardjono's opening address stresses the 1945 revolution's aims and West Irian. Guests include Chinese, Soviet and East German delegations, Aidit and PNI's Sidik. Sukarno speaks, rejecting '
Renmin Ribao, 16 Dec 1961, p. 3 (Xinhua, Jakarta): Gerwani's Fourth National Congress opens on 14 Dec with over 400 delegates; Umi Sardjono's opening address stresses the 1945 revolution's aims and West Irian. Guests include Chinese, Soviet and East German delegations, Aidit and PNI's Sidik. Sukarno speaks, rejecting '
English anthology of progressive Indonesian poetry, 1955-61 (introduction dated Djakarta, 8 May 1962), from Zaman Baru, Harian Rakjat and Bintang Timur. Its contributor notes state that the poet Sugiarti Siswadi, who visited Romania (1955) and the GDR, USSR and China (1961) with Rukiah Kertapati as LEKRA delegation hea
English anthology of progressive Indonesian poetry, 1955-61 (introduction dated Djakarta, 8 May 1962), from Zaman Baru, Harian Rakjat and Bintang Timur. Its contributor notes state that the poet Sugiarti Siswadi, who visited Romania (1955) and the GDR, USSR and China (1961) with Rukiah Kertapati as LEKRA delegation hea
Chinese-published pamphlet (Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1963) with statements and a report by Yang Yun-yu attacking Soviet and WIDF leaders at the June 1963 Moscow World Congress of Women over anti-imperialism versus disarmament and peaceful coexistence. It records the Indonesian delegation, led by Umi Sardjono, s
Tribune (Sydney), 23 Jan 1963, p. 10, women's column: notes that Freda Brown, UAW national secretary, attended the WIDF Council in East Germany planning the Fifth World Congress of Women (Moscow, June 1963) and also visited the Soviet Union and Indonesia; her articles are promised. Other items unrelated (tax rebates, F
Renmin Ribao, 15 Jul 1963, p. 2: full text of the speech by Mrs Pardjani Pradono, head of the Indonesian women's delegation, at the Beijing rally. She says women's emancipation and family happiness cannot be separated from national independence, endorses Sukarno's Political Manifesto, Nasakom and anti-Malaysia line, an
Renmin Ribao, 15 Jul 1963, p. 2: full text of the speech by Mrs Pardjani Pradono, head of the Indonesian women's delegation, at the Beijing rally. She says women's emancipation and family happiness cannot be separated from national independence, endorses Sukarno's Political Manifesto, Nasakom and anti-Malaysia line, an
Renmin Ribao snippet-only entry (21 July 1963, p. 3) on Aidit's departure to the USSR and China. The snippet lists PKI leaders and the heads of SOBSI, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani among those at the airport; no Gerwani leader is named. The full article is in GA-01890.
Tribune (Sydney), 31 Jul 1963, p. 6: Freda Brown, UAW national secretary, gives the Australian delegation's official report on the WIDF World Congress of Women, Moscow, 24-29 June 1963 (114 countries, 181 organisations). Covers peace, colonialism, equality, the Chinese delegation's disputes, and messages from leaders i
Tribune (Sydney), 31 Jul 1963, p. 6: Freda Brown, UAW national secretary, gives the Australian delegation's official report on the WIDF World Congress of Women, Moscow, 24-29 June 1963 (114 countries, 181 organisations). Covers peace, colonialism, equality, the Chinese delegation's disputes, and messages from leaders i
Tribune (Sydney), 4 Sep 1963, p. 3: reports that Soviet (Nina Bogomolova) and Indian (Geeta Mukherjee, for WIDF) delegates accepted invitations to the UAW national conference of 13-17 September; advice is awaited from Indonesia about the delegate invited from Gerwani, 'one and a half million strong'.
Tribune (Sydney), 4 Sep 1963, p. 3: reports that Soviet (Nina Bogomolova) and Indian (Geeta Mukherjee, for WIDF) delegates accepted invitations to the UAW national conference of 13-17 September; advice is awaited from Indonesia about the delegate invited from Gerwani, 'one and a half million strong'.
Tribune (Sydney), 11 Sep 1963, p. 8: Madame Suharti Suwarto, Indonesian MP and teacher, is invited to the UAW's third national conference in Sydney from 13 September if entry formalities are completed. Gives the conference programme (rally at Sydney Trades Hall, delegates over 200) with guests Geeta Mukherjee and Nina
Tribune (Sydney), 11 Sep 1963, p. 8: Madame Suharti Suwarto, Indonesian MP and teacher, is invited to the UAW's third national conference in Sydney from 13 September if entry formalities are completed. Gives the conference programme (rally at Sydney Trades Hall, delegates over 200) with guests Geeta Mukherjee and Nina
FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (15 May 1964) on the Bucharest women workers' trade union conference: WFTU Secretary General Louis Saillant's report praising the Moscow test-ban treaty and peaceful coexistence is attacked as a 'capitulationist' line. Chi Yuan-te (China) and Sri Ambar, head of the Indonesian delegation, ar
People's Daily, 16 May 1964, p. 4: report that Chinese, Indonesian and other delegates at an international women workers' conference upheld an anti-imperialist line against the Soviet delegate and 'Saiyang'. The excerpt quotes Sri Ambar, head of the Indonesian delegation, welcoming efforts for working-class unity and o
People's Daily, 16 May 1964, p. 4: report that Chinese, Indonesian and other delegates at an international women workers' conference upheld an anti-imperialist line against the Soviet delegate and 'Saiyang'. The excerpt quotes Sri Ambar, head of the Indonesian delegation, welcoming efforts for working-class unity and o
CIA Directorate of Intelligence staff study (ESAU XXV, OCI 1855/64, 12 June 1964, by Helen-Louise Hunter) on the Sino-Soviet conflict in the international front organisations, September 1962 to December 1963. It covers AAPSO at Moshi, the Djakarta journalists' and writers' conferences, and Chinese attempts to build riv
Berliner Zeitung, 30 June 1964, p. 2: short BZ/ADN item "DFD wählte Präsidium" on the newly elected DFD federal board and secretariat (chair Ilse Thiele). Its last paragraph says women's delegations from the USSR, Poland, Spain, Cuba, Guinea, Cyprus, Indonesia, Mongolia, Belgium and Greece, who attended the Berlin wome
Pravda, 1 August 1965 (No. 213), pp. 1-2: TASS communique on the 7-31 July 1965 visit of a PKI delegation led by D.N. Aidit to the USSR, with talks with Brezhnev and Suslov, plus a notice of its departure. Umi Sardjono (Gerwani's leader) is listed as candidate member of the PKI Central Committee in the delegation. Gerw
Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1965, pp. 13-17: Soviet propaganda features, Igor Gaspel on 25 years of Soviet Estonia/Latvia ('The Sun in Our Windows') and Sergei Danilin's reportage on the Kazminsky collective farm, Stavropol, including women farm workers. No Indonesian, Gerwani or WIDF content; relevant only as sample of Sovie
The Straits Times, 13 October 1965, p. 1: Lt-Col. Untung is captured at Tegal; broadcasts claim rebels' support collapsed and many youths were rounded up; Medan rally demands a PKI ban; Soviet leaders warn Indonesia against imperialist threats; PKI chief Aidit still in hiding. Page also carries Vietnam war news. No men
Neue Zurcher Zeitung report (signed T. R., 10 November 1965) on the WFTU congress in Warsaw, overshadowed by the Soviet-Chinese conflict. Among the eight secretariat members elected is Setiati Surasto (Indonesia); the Indonesian delegation is said to have backed the Chinese line. This documents her international trade-
Soviet record (top secret) of Khrushchev's 9 June 1961 conversation with Sukarno, translated by Angela Greenfield (Wilson Center). Khrushchev warns of US intelligence ties to rebels and army officers; Sukarno discusses banned parties, Nasakom, his backing for the PKI and consultation with Aidit, and distrust of Subandr
Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (14 Dec 1966, p. 1): five Chinese organisations, including the All-China Women's Federation, jointly condemn Indonesia's 'right-wing military regime' for mass slaughter and detention of 300,000, support the Indonesian AAPSO appeal, and attack Soviet 'revisionists' and Adam Malik's Moscow v
PhD dissertation in political science (Claremont, 1967) by Jerry Mark Silverman on national communism and polycentrism, 1919-1966, using the 'political community' framework with the PKI as case study (Section III, chs. 4-5 on PKI independence and ambivalence). It confines its Indonesian analysis to the period before 1
De Waarheid, 4 Nov 1967, p. 3: report that Indonesian representatives abroad of SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat and Gerwani protested Soviet leaders' stance towards the Suharto regime. SOBSI secretary Setiati Surasto condemned a Soviet union delegation's January 1967 visit; Gerwani rejected a 'hypocritical' WIDF resolution in Eas
Amigoe di Curaçao, 10 Apr 1976: the Curaçao branch of Amnesty International adopts three prisoners, including Sri Kusnapsiah, 67, imprisoned in Indonesia for over ten years. No organisation is named in the text, but the case is of interest as a long-term woman political prisoner from 1965. Also reports 1,688 releases i
Neues Deutschland, 23 January 1985, p. 6 (Außenpolitik): short commentary by Dietrich Sow[...] 'Konvention gegen Diskriminierung der Frauen'. After Indonesia and Jamaica joined, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women has been ratified by 63 states. It credits the USSR with the