Defending Peace Means Defending Their Future
Api Kartini (December 1959) article on nuclear weapons and mothers' duty to defend peace, describing Hiroshima's after-effects and the A/H-bomb test race. Reports Ratu Aminah Hidayat's invitation to the 11 December women's disarmament conference at Kungalv, Sweden, and the Indonesian Mothers' Committee against A-H Bombs' open letter to the UN against French Sahara tests. Gerwani is not named.
Artikel Api Kartini (Desember 1959) tentang senjata nuklir dan kewajiban ibu membela perdamaian, menggambarkan dampak Hiroshima dan perlombaan uji bom A/H. Melaporkan undangan Ratu Aminah Hidayat ke musyawarah perlucutan senjata wanita di Kungalv, Swedia (11 Desember), dan surat terbuka Komite Ibu Indonesia Menentang Bom A-H kepada PBB menentang uji coba Perancis di Sahara. Gerwani tidak disebut.
“Ratu Aminah Hidayat was invited to the women's disarmament conference at Kungalv on 11 December, and the Mothers' Committee wrote to the UN against French tests in the Sahara.”
Seventh issue of Api Kartini (Dec 1959), centred on Hari Ibu (22 December). Includes an article on the peace movement against nuclear testing, S. Djin's report on the November 1959 Latin American women's congress in Santiago, and an interview on food and clothing supply.
shared: Ratu Aminah Hidajat, nuclear disarmament, conference abroad
Api Kartini (December 1959) news-roundup column. Notes the Kungalv (Sweden) women's disarmament conference attended by A. Hidayat, a Gerakan Ibu protest letter to the UN on French A-bomb tests, Jakarta preparations for the 50th International Women's Day (lectures among peasant women, bazaar), and a DPP Gerwani work mee
shared: United Nations, Mothers' Movement against A- and H-Bombs, Kungälv, nuclear disarmament
Front page of Literaturnaia Gazeta, 10 June 1952, carrying a World Peace Council Bureau statement defending the French peace movement. Signatories include 'Mrs. Suwarti (Indonesia), member of parliament' (Gerwis/Gerwani leader Suwarti), alongside Joliot-Curie, Eugenie Cotton (WIDF), Brecht and Neruda. Also notes the Pe
shared: World Peace Council, Frédéric Joliot-Curie
De Waarheid report (20 Apr 1949) on the opening of the World Peace Congress in Paris, where Joliot-Curie greeted delegations from China, Spain, Greece, Vietnam and Indonesia, protested French refusal of 380 visas and noted women's role in peace. WIDF chair Cotton sat on the platform. No Indonesian delegate or Gerwis/Ge
shared: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, conference abroad
De Waarheid page (25 Apr 1949) with a report on fighting in Sumatra (Dutch landing at Indrapura, Republican scorched-earth) plus speeches from the Paris World Peace Congress. WIDF chair Eugénie Cotton says millions of women are fighting in China, Greece, Indonesia and Spain. No Indonesian women are named.
shared: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, conference abroad
Report by Ratu Aminah Hidajat, Vice-President of the Constituent Assembly, to the WIDF Fourth Congress/Conference on the Defence of Life (Vienna, June 1958). Describes Indonesia's committees against A- and H-bomb tests (chaired by Sukarno; Movement of Mothers, Peace Committee), an Anti-Bomb Week and a public appeal; sa
shared: Ratu Aminah Hidajat, nuclear disarmament
March 1960 issue devoted to the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day and the Copenhagen International Women's Congress (21–24 April 1960); interviews with delegation figures Arudji Kartawinata, Ratu Aminah Hidajat and Hurustiati Subandrio.
shared: Ratu Aminah Hidajat, conference abroad
FBIS-monitored Moscow Radio text (25 Jan 1951) of a speech by an Indonesian member of the World Peace Council (name garbled), chairing the Indonesian delegation to the Warsaw Peace Congress. Describes the Indonesian Peace Committee (Yogyakarta, June 1950), the Stockholm Appeal signatures, and urges non-democratic Indon
shared: World Peace Council, nuclear disarmament, conference abroad