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DPP Gerwani (650.000 anggota): Bubarkan SEATO, Bintang Timur 24 Maret 1958

Gerwani DPP (650,000 members): dissolve SEATO (Bintang Timur, 24 March 1958)

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Bintang Timur, 24 March 1958, p. 1 (during the PRRI rebellion). Front-page statement of the Gerwani national leadership (DPP), said to represent 650,000 members, condemning US and SEATO intervention and the US Seventh Fleet's movements, and demanding that SEATO be dissolved ('Bubarkan SEATO'), in an open letter. Same page reports fighting in Sumatra, the Kuomintang, Malaya's and Thailand's SEATO stances.

Bintang Timur, 24 Maret 1958, hlm. 1 (masa pemberontakan PRRI). Pernyataan depan Dewan Pimpinan Pusat Gerwani, yang disebut mewakili 650.000 anggota, mengecam intervensi AS dan SEATO serta gerakan Armada ke-7 AS, dan menuntut SEATO dibubarkan ('Bubarkan SEATO') dalam surat terbuka. Halaman yang sama memuat pertempuran di Sumatra, Kuomintang, serta sikap Malaya dan Muang Thai terhadap SEATO.

“p.1: "Dewan Pimpinan Pusat Gerwani mewakili 650.000 anggota" ... "Gerwani menuntut supaya pakta/persekutuan Seato segera dibubarkan. Demikian surat terbuka Gerwani."”

People

Eva Bartók

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Southeast Asia Treaty OrganizationRevolutionary Government of the Republic of IndonesiaKuomintangCaltex

Places

JakartaSumatraPekanbaruMalayaThailandUnited States

Topics

peace and anti-imperialismUSA and UKGerwani organisationpropaganda and media

Tags

seato and military pactsregional rebellionsanti-americanismorganisational statement

Details

Date
1958-03-24
Creator
Bintang Timur
Publication
Bintang Timur
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page)
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Gerwani/PKI-aligned voice
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1955–1959
Source archive
Perpusnas Khastara (Bintang Timur, catalog 299272) · source link
Access
open access (Khastara) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Bintang Timur (1954-1958) - issues naming Gerwani members or Gerwani articles (Perpusnas Khastara)/Bintang Timur (1958-03-24) - DPP Gerwani (650,000 members) - Dissolve SEATO, p. 1 [Khastara 299272].pdf
OCR / text
Fair (0.88) · proof-reading: key passages (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Bintang Timur (1954-1958) - issues naming Gerwani members or Gerwani articles (Perpusnas Khastara)
Summary basis
full text read; OCR jumbled full-page layout, Gerwani passages located and read in context

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