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Abadi, 15 Maret 1952, hlm. 3: Surat S.K. Trimurti kepada organisasi wanita

Abadi, 15 March 1952, p. 3: S.K. Trimurti's Letter to Women's Organisations

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Abadi, 15 Mar 1952, p. 3: Trimurti's open letter (while detained) to women's organisations before a Kongres Wanita Indonesia conference, proposing majority voting and a minimum programme on schools, rice prices, women's and child labour, and trafficking.

Abadi, 15 Maret 1952, hlm. 3: surat terbuka Trimurti (saat ditahan) kepada organisasi wanita menjelang konferensi Kongres Wanita Indonesia, mengusulkan pemungutan suara mayoritas dan program minimum soal sekolah, harga beras, buruh perempuan dan anak, serta perdagangan perempuan.

People

S.K. Trimurti

Organisations

Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis)Women's Union of the Republic of IndonesiaIndonesian Women's CongressMuslimat (unspecified)

Places

YogyakartaSurakarta

Topics

Gerwiswomen's rights and emancipationlabour and workerscongresses and meetings

Tags

letterstatutes and programmeprostitution

Details

Date
1952-03-15
Creator
Abadi
Publication
Abadi
Document type
newspaper article (Newspaper page (Masyumi-aligned daily), single page)
Language
Indonesian (old spelling)
Perspective
Indonesian mainstream/other press
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1950–1954
Source archive
Monumen Pers Nasional SIDAK · source link
Access
Monumen Pers Nasional (Surakarta) SIDAK digital newspaper collection (free; licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 per the site; SIDAK id 61100 in file name), downloaded 2026-10-15/16 via the Claude desktop browser. Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Abadi. (1952, March 15). Abadi [Daily newspaper], No. 63, Th. II, p. III. Djakarta.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Abadi (1951-1973) - pages mentioning Gerwis and Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Abadi (1952-03-15) - p. 03, Gerwis hit [MPN SIDAK 61100].jpg
OCR / text
Fair (0.78) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Abadi (1951-1973) - pages mentioning Gerwis and Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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