Gerwis position
Java-Bode, 16 June 1953, p. 1: Gerwis statement on the formation of a new cabinet. It demands withdrawal of measures harming women and the people, with a programme of protection for working and pregnant women, fighting unemployment, higher education budget, price control, repeal of regional measures violating democratic rights, combating terror bands and just land distribution for peasants.
Java-Bode, 16 Juni 1953, hlm. 1: pernyataan Gerwis tentang pembentukan kabinet baru. Menuntut pencabutan kebijakan yang merugikan perempuan dan rakyat, dengan program perlindungan buruh perempuan dan ibu hamil, perlawanan terhadap pengangguran, anggaran pendidikan lebih besar, kontrol harga, pencabutan kebijakan daerah yang melanggar hak demokrasi, pemberantasan gerombolan dan pembagian tanah yang adil bagi petani.
“Gerwis urged a cabinet with a programme of protecting working women, especially pregnant women, and a just land distribution for farmers (p. 1).”
Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (17 Jun 1953, p.2): Gerwis issues a statement on the formation of a new cabinet, calling for one that repeals measures harming women and people. Its programme demands protection of working women (especially pregnant), curbing unemployment, a bigger education and culture budget, price control
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Indische Courant voor Nederland, 24 Jun 1953, p. 1: Sukarno appoints Mangunsarkoro (PNI) and Roem (Masjumi) as cabinet formateurs after Wilopo's fall; reports party programmes. Gerwis issues a statement urging a cabinet that protects working and pregnant women, curbs unemployment, raises education budgets, controls pri
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), land reform, organisational statement, Gerwis
Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1953-06-16, p. 2): Gerwis issues a statement on cabinet formation urging a government that withdraws measures harming women and the people, with a programme of protection for working and pregnant women, anti-unemployment measures, more education budget, price control, farm tools, ending region
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Abadi, 4 Aug 1951, p. 1: Gerwis central board statement (2 Aug) rejecting the visit of Hjalmar Schacht, invited by the Sukiman government, as a 'fascist champion' who would drag Indonesia toward a war economy.
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), cabinet politics, organisational statement, Gerwis
De Waarheid, 31 Aug 1951, p. 3: near-verbatim PKI Central Committee statement on the Sukiman government's August 1951 mass arrests, calling them a drift to fascism and a staged 'coup' pretext. It lists Gerwis among organisations whose members were arrested or searched, demands release of all detainees and urges an anti
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), cabinet politics, organisational statement, Gerwis
Sulami's reflective essay (written 1992, posted 9 Nov 2006) on why revolutionary women founded Gerwis on 4 June 1950, its rejection of 'man-hating feminism', its actions such as Tanjung Morawa and International Women's Day. First-person account by a Gerwani secretary-general.
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), land reform, Gerwis, peasant women
Part I of Ita Fatia Nadia's essay (südostasien 3/2020) tracing the women's movement 1912-65 to Gerwani: peasant and plantation work, marriage and land reform, WIDF ties and 1.7 million members. Notes Kowani in the WIDF 1946-49 and Indonesian women at the WIDF secretariat. In German.
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), land reform, peasant women
Abadi, 11 April 1951, p. 4: Gerwis central board (Semarang, 6 April 1951) endorses the 14-party joint programme (cancel KMB, independent foreign policy, revoke SOB) and demands a broad coalition cabinet.
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), cabinet politics, Gerwis