Merdeka, 15 August 1951: Gerwis central board resolutions
Merdeka, 15 Agustus 1951 (hlm. 2): Antara report on Gerwis central board resolutions: gifts for victims of the revolution and colonial wars including those of the 'September 1948 affair', and an education programme of rebuilt schools and village people's schools.
Merdeka, 15 Agustus 1951 (hlm. 2): laporan Antara resolusi pengurus besar Gerwis: bantuan bagi korban revolusi dan perang kolonial termasuk korban 'peristiwa September 1948', serta program pendidikan sekolah rakyat desa.
Leeuwarder Courant, 24 May 1967, p. 1: front-page background column on the persecution of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia after 1965, citing camps in Medan, roundups in Borneo, closed Chinese schools in East Java, and the mass killings of communists and suspects in which Chinese families died. The tone is stereotyping. Ger
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Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (28 Oct 1953, p.2): at its 25 October conference the Jakarta women's organisation Gerwis resolved on 'Menteng 31' (supporting its return to youth but asking the government to rehouse the girls living there) and on a forced marriage of a 60-year-old man to a 14-year-old schoolgirl, expressing
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Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (26 Aug 1953, p.2): in Surabaya the trial began of 42 students accused of wrecking the Vrije Pers offices on 16 April; a demonstration by thousands of students and pupils against prosecution, reportedly also joined by Gerwis, Pemuda Rakjat and SOBSI, demanded a press law and curbs on Dutch-l
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), schools and campuses, Gerwis, education and literacy
Nieuwe Courant, 4 June 1951: Acheson on Korea and the risk of Soviet intervention, with a short note that about 10,000 children celebrated International Children's Day on Merdeka Square, Jakarta, on a committee including Gerwis, IPPA and Pemuda Rakjat, with 4,000 Chinese youths from eight Chinese schools.
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), schools and campuses, Gerwis, education and literacy
Harian Rakjat, Jakarta, 26 June 1952 (full issue; p. 1 relevant). Francisca Fanggidaej speaks to the paper as one of 17 members of a delegation of nine organisations (peace committee, workers, students, women's, youth and ex-combatant groups) concerning protests over the Korean war and germ warfare. Also a report that
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), schools and campuses, Gerwis, education and literacy
Abadi, 15 Aug 1951, p. 3: Gerwis central board urges the government to give clothing or money to revolution victims and families on 17 August, including romusha, laskar, and victims of the 'September 1948 affair (from both sides)'.
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), madiun affair, Gerwis
De Waarheid, 31 Jul 1953, p. 5: short Jakarta dispatch (20 July) that on Gerwis's initiative a committee was formed to assist victims of terrorist bands such as Darul Islam, joined by SOBSI, the veterans' league Perbepsi, student organisation IPPI and the peasants' union RTI. Shows Gerwis leading a relief and anti-Daru
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), victimhood, Gerwis
Short Algemeen Indisch Dagblad item (1953-07-24, p. 2): delegation of SOBSI, Perbepsi, Komite Rakjat, IPPI and Gerwis hands parliament speaker Sartono a resolution demanding that the new cabinet be anti-Darul Islam and that the government declare DI an enemy of the state. Text ends abruptly.
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