Aust. delegate saw Indonesia (Tribune, 12 Agustus 1964)

Tribune (1964-08-12) - Aust. delegate saw Indonesia Source: Trove, National Library of Australia - https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article236852113 Date retrieved: 2026-10-17 OCR text (uncorrected) follows. 12 Aug 1964 - Aust. delegate saw Indonesia Tribune (Sydney, NSW: 1939 - 1991), Wednesday 12 August 1964, page 3 ! Aust. delegate | | saw Indonesia;j PERTH: Indonesian women expressed com- jj |! plete amazement at the idea that Indonesia had j! |! aggressive intentions towards Australia. jji; AyUSS ENID HAMPSON,jj delegate from the!; Women's International Dell mocratic Federation to the;j recent Congress of Indo-!; nesian Women in Djoe-|! karta, said this.; | - She arrived in Perth by air on!; August 4 on her way back to 1 1 Sydney, where she is N.S.W.!; Secretary of the Union of Aus-;> tralian Women. "'How could we have such 1 1 ideas when we have so much to!; do here? With more than 90 l; million people, Java is over-'( crowded and the Government IS conducting a campaign to get!; Javanese to settle in Sumatra!; and other Indonesian islands!; which need development'." 1 1 This was the way the Indo-|! nesian women replied to such j! views, Miss Hampson said.!; The Congress was organised I; by W.A.N, I.T.A., the central Xn-donesian women's organisation,;; which was made up of 40 or-;j ganisations of diverse view-;! points, many of them religious. 1 >Eight other countries were 1 1 represented — U.S.S.R., China,;j Hungary, North Korea, North |; Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, and!' Yugoslavia — on a reciprocal;j basis, as Madame Subandrio!; wife of Indonesia's foreign Min- j! ister, had visited them as an of-; » ficial guest. W.I.DF. was represented by its j! general secretary, Mrs. Rose 1; Yosocich, of Argentina, as well!; as Miss Hampson.!; Madame Subandrio gave the;j main report to the Congress,;» the opening of which was at-;! tended by 9.000 women. j! The two main problems of 1 1 Indonesia.were Malaysia and i| how to build the food supply i; to satisfy the needs of the peo-pie, Miss Hampson said.; Miss Hampson addressed two public meetings, shipboard meet-; j ings and a luncheon organised by Fremantle women's organ isa- j! tions during her stay. She I J chatted with Fremantle's Mayor! Sir Frederick Samson at a morning reception in the!; Mayor's parlour.;;