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 items (film stars, Rhodesia elections, crime) are unrelated.
Daily Mirror (Sydney), 18 Desember 1953, hlm. 11, halaman berita ringkas dalam dan luar negeri. Hanya satu butir menyangkut Indonesia: laporan singkat AP dari Jakarta bahwa 2.000 wanita Indonesia berkain sarung memadati jalan ibu kota menuntut pemerintah melarang poligami dan perkawinan anak. Tidak ada organisasi disebut. Butir lain (bintang film, pemilu Rhodesia, kriminal) tidak terkait.
“Only Indonesia item: 'Two thousand sarong-clad Indonesian women jammed the streets of the capital yesterday, demanding that the Government impose a ban on polygamy and child-marriage' (Djakarta, AP).”
Column of short news items in De Vrije Pers (30 Nov 1954). Relevant item: a two-day Gerwani congress of the Bandung branch decided to send a message of sympathy to Maisuri, a young woman in South Sumatra who suffered a "forced marriage". Other items are unrelated world news.
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Tribune (Sydney) p. 2: the Communist Party of Australia sends condolences to the PKI on the death of Bintang Suradi, a PKI Central Committee figure and private secretary to D.N. Aidit, who died on 22 June 1963 in a swimming accident while touring Indonesia with CPA's E. Bacon, aged 40. His wife Suwarti (Suwarti Bintang
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Tribune (Sydney) p. 2: the Communist Party of Australia sends condolences to the PKI on the death of Bintang Suradi, a PKI Central Committee figure and private secretary to D.N. Aidit, who died on 22 June 1963 in a swimming accident while touring Indonesia with CPA's E. Bacon, aged 40. His wife Suwarti (Suwarti Bintang
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Het Parool wire report (9 Nov 1965) under 'Women cheer Suharto': 100,000 anti-communist demonstrators in Jakarta demand a ban on the PKI and 'crushing' of the 30 September movement; the army searches a Chinese quarter. Thousands of women marched to National Front headquarters; Suharto thanked them for loyalty to the ar
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Het Rotterdamsch Parool report (9 Nov 1965, p.1) under 'Women cheer Suharto', same wire text as other Dutch papers: 100,000 anti-communist demonstrators in Jakarta demand banning the PKI; the army searches a Chinese quarter; thousands of women march to the National Front HQ, are addressed by Suharto and cheer him, repr
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Neues Deutschland, 12 October 1965, p. 7. ND brief 'Malaysias Premier feiert Putschversuch' (Kuala Lumpur/Djakarta, citing AP and AFP): Tunku Abdul Rahman calls the 30 September coup attempt an 'answer to our prayers' and a chance to eliminate Indonesian communists. Citing a Jakarta Muslim daily, it reports that incite
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Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Sep 1954, p. 1 (AAP-Reuter): a deputation from 30 Indonesian women's organisations, headed by Mrs Katowijono of Perwani, protested to Sukarno over his marriage to a second wife, Mrs Suwondo, without the first wife's consent. Press debate; women leaders say it dealt the women's movement a bad b
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Bintang Timur (Jakarta daily), 17 April 1956, full issue. The Gerwani-relevant item is a report on the DPR debate on the Ali Sastroamidjojo cabinet programme, in which Umi Sardjono (Fraksi Pembangunan) objects to a verdict punishing Maisuri for refusing a forced customary marriage and demands abolition of feudal remnan
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