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Merdeka, 19 Maret 1951, hlm. 2: 'Gerakan Wanita' (S.K. Trimurti)

Merdeka, 19 March 1951: 'Gerakan Wanita' (S.K. Trimurti)

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Merdeka, 19 Mar 1951, p. 2: S.K. Trimurti of the Gerwis central board says Gerwis will focus on village councils over parliamentary seats, on doctors, midwives and marriage issues, and denies Gerwis is a PKI onderbouw.

Merdeka, 19 Maret 1951, hlm. 2: S.K. Trimurti dari pengurus besar Gerwis menyatakan Gerwis akan memusatkan perhatian pada dewan desa dibanding kursi parlemen, pada dokter, bidan, dan soal perkawinan, serta membantah Gerwis onderbouw PKI.

People

S.K. Trimurti

Organisations

Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis)Communist Party of Indonesia

Places

Yogyakarta

Topics

Gerwismarriage law and polygamypeasant womenbiography

Tags

statutes and programmelocal governmentdivorce

Details

Date
1951-03-19
Creator
Merdeka
Publication
Merdeka
Document type
newspaper article (Newspaper page (nationalist daily))
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 (MPN) SIDAK digital newspaper archive (free access; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 per site), page image downloaded 2026-10-15/16 via the Claude desktop browser; MPN SIDAK id in the file name. Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Merdeka. (1951, March 19). Merdeka [Daily newspaper], No. 1583, Tahun ke-VI, p. 2. Djakarta.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Merdeka (1950-1957) - pages mentioning Gerwis and Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Merdeka (1951-03-19) - p. 02, Gerwis hit [MPN SIDAK 189913].jpg
OCR / text
Fair (0.823) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Merdeka (1950-1957) - pages mentioning Gerwis and Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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