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Indonesian Women Traversed the Seas to Attend This Conference (Sunardi, 1956)
1956 extract from a speech by Sunardi, Indonesian delegate to the World Conference of Women Workers, plus a column of international women's news. She describes low wages, foreign monopolies, plantation women workers, absence of democratic marriage law and labour protection, the unilateral abrogation of the Round Table agreement and Indonesian opposition to H-bomb tests. Gerwani is not named.
Kutipan pidato 1956 Sunardi, delegasi Indonesia pada Konferensi Dunia Perempuan Pekerja, ditambah kolom berita perempuan internasional. Ia menggambarkan upah rendah, monopoli asing, buruh perempuan perkebunan, tiadanya UU perkawinan demokratis dan perlindungan kerja, pembatalan sepihak KMB, dan penolakan Indonesia terhadap uji bom H. Gerwani tidak disebut.
“'Because of the lack of democratic marriage laws to protect married women, women workers can easily be abandoned; and sometimes they are the victims of polygamy.'”
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- 1956
- Creator
- Sunardi
- Publication
- Sunardi
- Document type
- periodical article (WIDF / international women's movement record)
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Gerwani/PKI-aligned voice
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- International (WIDF)
- Period
- 1955–1959
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- Alexander Street - Women and Social Movements (WASI / Modern Empires WASG) via Columbia proxy · source link
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- 01 Primary Sources/1.11 WIDF and International Women's Movement Records/Women of the Whole World and WIDF Bulletin (1947-1965) - articles on Indonesia and Gerwani (Alexander Street WASI)/Sunardi (1956) - Indonesian Women Traversed the Seas to Attend This Conference [WASI].pdf
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- Good (0.948) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
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- 01 Primary Sources › 1.11 WIDF and International Women's Movement Records › Women of the Whole World and WIDF Bulletin (1947-1965) - articles on Indonesia and Gerwani (Alexander Street WASI)
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