GA-02369 1957-02 relevance A public
Directories of the International Communist-Front Organizations and Communist Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations, February 1957 (WIDF section)
CIA directories, February 1957: International communist-front organizations (WIDF section)
CIA compilation of reference data (February 1957, data to 1 October 1956) on international communist-front organisations and friendship societies, including the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF). The WIDF directory lists headquarters, publications, executive officers and national affiliates. Under Indonesia (p. 19 of the WIDF section) Gerwani is listed as an affiliate, with claimed membership of 281,000 (February 1955) and 565,147 (April 1956), president Umi Sardjono and vice-president Suharti Suwarto; the WIDF Council list also gives Indonesian members (p. 37).
Kompilasi data rujukan CIA (Februari 1957, data hingga 1 Oktober 1956) tentang organisasi front komunis internasional dan perhimpunan persahabatan, termasuk Federasi Perempuan Demokratik Internasional (WIDF). Direktori WIDF memuat markas, terbitan, pengurus eksekutif dan afiliasi nasional. Di bawah Indonesia (hlm. 19 bagian WIDF) Gerwani tercatat sebagai afiliasi, dengan klaim anggota 281.000 (Februari 1955) dan 565.147 (April 1956), ketua Umi Sardjono dan wakil ketua Suharti Suwarto; daftar Dewan WIDF juga memuat anggota dari Indonesia (hlm. 37).
“WIDF directory, Indonesia (p. 19): affiliate Gerwani, claimed strength 281,000 (Feb 1955) and 565,147 (Apr 1956); President Umi Sardjono, Vice President Suharti Suwarto.”
People
Organisations
Places
Topics
Tags
Details
- Date
- 1957-02
- Creator
- CIA
- Document type
- government record (government / intelligence / diplomatic record)
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Intelligence/diplomatic record
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1955–1959
- Source archive
- CIA Reading Room (via archive.org FTS) · source link
- Access
- open access (archive.org) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records/CIA, FRUS, JPRS and US reports (1949-1978) - items on Gerwani and members (CIA CREST, HathiTrust, Gale, DTIC)/CIA (1957) - Directories of the International Communist-Front Organizations (WIDF officers) [CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140008-2].pdf
- OCR / text
- Fair (0.81) · proof-reading: key passages (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 01 Primary Sources › 1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records › CIA, FRUS, JPRS and US reports (1949-1978) - items on Gerwani and members (CIA CREST, HathiTrust, Gale, DTIC)
- Summary basis
- structured reading (introduction, chapter openings, conclusion and all Gerwani/women's-movement passages)
Related items
As One! For Equality, For Happiness, For Peace: World Congress of Women, Copenhagen 1953
Report volume (WIDF, Berlin, 1953) on the World Congress of Women, Copenhagen, 5-10 June 1953: reports, speeches, documents, resolutions and the officers elected. Gerwani and Gerwis are not named. Indonesia appears in the congress report (p. 4), which says its 10 delegates and observers came from six organisations, one
shared: World Peace Council, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Federation of Democratic Youth, Eugénie Cotton
CIA study, September 1958: The international communist fronts in 1958
CIA/US government study (September 1958) surveying the activities of the international Communist fronts (World Peace Council, Afro-Asian Solidarity Council, WFDY/IUS, WIDF, WFTU and others) in 1958. Chapter IV covers WIDF's Fourth Congress (Vienna, 1-5 June 1958) and secretariat. Gerwani appears only briefly: Suharti (
shared: World Peace Council, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Federation of Democratic Youth, International Union of Students
US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1959-60): Api Kartini magazine (Maasje Siwi), Umi Sardjono in the DPR-GR
US Monthly Indonesian Press Survey (1959-60) extracts. A review of the new monthly Api Kartini, published by Yayasan Melati and headed by Maasje Siwi, lists its editors (S. Asijah, Darmini, Parjani Pradono, S.K. Trimurti, Rukiah Kertapati and others). Parliamentary notes list Umi Sardjono (functional group for women) a
shared: Umi Sardjono, Suharti Suwarto, Asijah
Literaturnaia Gazeta, 10 Jun 1952: World Peace Council Bureau statement (Suwarti signs)
Front page of Literaturnaia Gazeta, 10 June 1952, carrying a World Peace Council Bureau statement defending the French peace movement. Signatories include 'Mrs. Suwarti (Indonesia), member of parliament' (Gerwis/Gerwani leader Suwarti), alongside Joliot-Curie, Eugenie Cotton (WIDF), Brecht and Neruda. Also notes the Pe
shared: World Peace Council, World Federation of Trade Unions, Eugénie Cotton, Suwarti
Moscow's advance
Algemeen Dagblad (1959-11-06, p. 7): second part of Allen W. Dulles's essay on Soviet and Chinese economic and subversive penetration of developing countries. Lists Indonesia among arms recipients and names the WIDF, with trade-union, youth and peace bodies, as a communist 'front organisation'. Cold War framing context
shared: World Peace Council, World Federation of Trade Unions, China, Soviet Union
Opening of WIDF Council meeting in Beijing; growth of Indonesian women's movement (Renmin Ribao, 25 April 1956)
Renmin Ribao, 25 Apr 1956 (p. 4), descriptive report on the opening (24 Apr) of the WIDF Council meeting in Beijing: Presidents Mrs Gordon and Cai Chang, Deng Yingchao welcoming Egyptian, Israeli and Indonesian delegates, and Angiola Minella's report on peace, nuclear tests and Asian-African women after Bandung. It cla
shared: Eugénie Cotton, Angiola Minella
Opening of WIDF Council meeting in Beijing; growth of Indonesian women's movement (Renmin Ribao, 25 April 1956)
Renmin Ribao, 25 Apr 1956 (p. 4), descriptive report on the opening (24 Apr) of the WIDF Council meeting in Beijing: Presidents Mrs Gordon and Cai Chang, Deng Yingchao welcoming Egyptian, Israeli and Indonesian delegates, and Angiola Minella's report on peace, nuclear tests and Asian-African women after Bandung. It cla
shared: Eugénie Cotton, Angiola Minella
Keynotes of the Council Meeting: Unity and Confidence (Bertrand, 1955)
Simone Bertrand, WIDF Assistant General Secretary, reports in 1955 on the Fifth WIDF Council meeting in Geneva (45 countries). She cites GERWANI as a remarkable example: mostly peasant and plantation women, membership up from 80,000 to 281,000 in a year, and with nine organisations it formed a committee opposing a US b
shared: Eugénie Cotton, Angiola Minella