FBIS, 3 June 1952: Children's Day statement (Gerwis-sponsored committee)
Brief FBIS item (3 Jun 1952): the committee for observing International Children's Day, formed under the auspices of Gerwis (Gerakan Wanita Indonesia Sedar), issued a statement appealing for attention to children's future worldwide and in Indonesia, warning that war such as in Korea endangers children's physical and mental growth. Shows Gerwis's peace and child-welfare campaigning.
Berita singkat FBIS (3 Jun 1952): panitia peringatan Hari Anak Internasional yang dibentuk di bawah naungan Gerwis (Gerakan Wanita Indonesia Sedar) mengeluarkan pernyataan yang menyerukan perhatian pada masa depan anak di dunia dan Indonesia, memperingatkan bahwa perang seperti di Korea membahayakan tumbuh kembang anak. Menunjukkan kampanye perdamaian dan kesejahteraan anak Gerwis.
“Committee 'formed under the auspices of the Movement of Awakened Indonesian Women--GERWIS' appealed for attention to children's future; war in Korea 'very dangerous' for children.”
FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (31 May 1952) on a Peking meeting for International Children's Day welcoming delegates returning from the Vienna children's conference. Mme Suwarti of Indonesia described the miserable life of Indonesian people and children under American imperialist exploitation and praised New China's car
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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), Korea, international children's day, Gerwis
WIDF 1952 bulletin page of country reports on International Children's Day (1 June): Romania, China, Mexico, Venezuela, Indonesia, USA, Belgium, Egypt, Switzerland. The Indonesia item says a committee of women's, youth and teachers' groups was formed, children demonstrated for peace, and an Indonesian film on war's eff
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One-line FBIS item (6 Apr 1952): the Movement of Awakened Indonesian Women (Gerwis) will send delegates to the International Conference for the Defense of Children in Vienna, 12-16 April. Evidence of Gerwis's international children's and WIDF-circle activity.
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), child welfare, radio broadcast monitoring, Gerwis
FBIS-monitored Pyongyang radio text (4 Mar 1953) of a Korean Workers' Party Central Committee decision for International Women's Day: praises Korean women in the war, calls for wartime production and vigilance. One line lists the 'awakened democratic women of India, Indonesia' and others in the WIDF-led struggle (WIDF
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Historia.id article (preview only) titled 'Gerwani dan Hak Anak'; the free preview covers only the New Order's National Children's Day (1984) and Decade of the Child (1986), not Gerwani. Little usable content.
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Abadi, 26 Mar 1952, p. 3: Gerwis backs the WIDF protest to the UN Secretary-General against alleged US germ warfare in Korea and urges Indonesia's UN delegate to support it.
shared: Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis), Korea, korean war, Gerwis
De Nieuwsgier, 19 May 1952: Eleanor Roosevelt, replying to a Gerwis letter handed to her in Jakarta in late April, rejects its allegations of UN bacteriological warfare in Korea and suppression of a people's freedom, and the claim that the West drove a million Arabs from their homes. Third press version of this exchang
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