GA-01648 1951-09-04 relevance A check rights
Merdeka, 4 September 1951
Merdeka, 4 September 1951: Trimurti surveys the women's movements
Merdeka, 4 September 1951 (hlm. 2): 'Trimurti tindjau gerakan2 wanita': Gerwis vice-chair S.K. Trimurti, touring Sumatra since 27 July 1951 with her secretary, criticises urban women's organisations in Medan as weak and ceremonial.
Merdeka, 4 September 1951 (hlm. 2): 'Trimurti tinjau gerakan-gerakan wanita': wakil ketua Gerwis S.K. Trimurti, berkeliling Sumatra sejak 27 Juli 1951 bersama sekretarisnya, mengkritik organisasi wanita kota di Medan sebagai lemah dan seremonial.
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- Date
- 1951-09-04
- 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, September 4). Merdeka [Daily newspaper], No. 1718, 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 (1951-09-04) - p. 02, Gerwis hit [MPN SIDAK 77010].jpg
- OCR / text
- Fair (0.765) · 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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