Suara Tani, June 1960: Biography of Kartinah Kurdi (DPR-GR) and her article on International Children's Day
Suara Tani (BTI organ), June 1960 (vol. XI no. 6), OCR noisy. Issue marks PKI's 40th anniversary, the DPR-GR, the sharecropping law and the 5-Principles rice method. P. 3 (cont. p. 6) gives short biographies of BTI peasant representatives in the DPR-GR, including Ny. Kartinah Kurdi (Taman Siswa teacher, Yogyakarta, active in Gerwani). P. 5 carries her article urging that 1 June International Children's Day be celebrated in villages.
Suara Tani (organ BTI), Juni 1960 (Th. XI No. 6), OCR berisik. Nomor memperingati 40 tahun PKI, DPR-GR, UU Bagi-Hasil dan cara 5 Prinsip tanam padi. Hlm. 3 (lanjut hlm. 6) memuat riwayat singkat wakil tani BTI di DPR-GR, termasuk Ny. Kartinah Kurdi (guru Taman Siswa Yogyakarta, aktif di Gerwani). Hlm. 5 memuat tulisannya agar Hari Anak-anak Sedunia 1 Juni dirayakan sampai ke desa-desa.
“p. 5, Ny. Kartinah Kurdi: 'Since 1950 Indonesian women have answered the WIDF call to make 1 June International Children's Day ... we must extend the celebration to the villages' where most children are peasants' children.”
Gerwani DPP brochure of the first National Seminar of Women Peasants (Jakarta, 17–20 January 1961), with the DPP working paper, a BTI paper, speeches by officials and D.N. Aidit, regional delegate reports and resolutions. Centres poor and landless women in Gerwani's class analysis of the village.
shared: Indonesian Peasants' Front, D.N. Aidit, Jadi Wirosubroto, peasant women
Official institutional history, 'Seperempat Abad DPR RI', compiled by the DPR-GR Secretariat for the 25th anniversary in August 1970; it traces parliament from the KNIP to 1970 with membership rosters. For Gerwani it matters in the 1965-66 chapters: it records the NU demand (5 Oct 1965) to ban Gerwani, the 15 Oct 1965
shared: Indonesian Peasants' Front, Gotong Royong House of Representatives, D.N. Aidit, Kartinah Kurdi
Suara Tani (BTI organ), special 10th-anniversary issue, January 1959, OCR noisy. Contains greetings from ministers, army chief Nasution and Gerwani; BTI New Year message; agrarian seminar results; BTI membership table (3.39 million); exposés of landlord exploitation in Java. On p. 5 Gerwani's national leadership (claim
shared: Indonesian Peasants' Front, Jadi Wirosubroto, education and literacy, peasant women
Tempo feature (2 Oct 2021) on how Umi Sardjono led Gerwani: Marx House courses, the 1945 Barisan Buruh Wanita with S.K. Trimurti, Gerwis founded at Semarang (3-6 June 1950, Tris Metty chair), Umi chair from 1954 when it became Gerwani. Cites 650,000 members and 179 kindergartens at the 1957 Solo congress, WIDF links, s
shared: D.N. Aidit, Kartinah Kurdi, Yogyakarta, Madiun
Government reference almanac issued by the Department of Information (Departemen Penerangan), June 1961, on the institutions of Guided Democracy: MPRS, DPR-GR, DPAS, Depernas, Bapekan, Front Nasional and recognised parties, with decrees, membership lists and party statutes. Gerwani appears only once, as the women's del
shared: Gotong Royong House of Representatives, D.N. Aidit, Kartinah Kurdi
US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1958) analysis of the First National Conference of Communist Women (Jakarta, 26-31 May 1958). Aidit's address presents the 'Communist woman' and calls for a wider Gerwani; Suharti Suwarto (Gerwani second deputy chair) and Sundari report on women's groups, only 100,000 women PKI membe
shared: Indonesian Peasants' Front, D.N. Aidit, Kartinah Kurdi
Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (1 Oct 1963, p. 3) on 1,800+ foreign guests at China's 14th National Day. The translation covers only Indonesia and women's items: M.H. Lukman's DPR-GR delegation, Lekra, SOBSI, BTI and other groups, and an Indonesian women's delegation with Kartinah Kurdi of Gerwani; also Cuban, Ghanaian,
shared: Indonesian Peasants' Front, Gotong Royong House of Representatives, Kartinah Kurdi
JPRS translation (24 May 1961) of four Harian Rakjat items on Gerwani's first National Seminar of Women Peasants, 17-20 January 1961, including Kartinah Kurdi's working paper and D.N. Aidit's speech. Key source on Gerwani's peasant-women programme and class analysis.
shared: D.N. Aidit, Kartinah Kurdi, peasant women