The Struggle is Just and a Just Struggle will Surely be Victorious (Suwarti, 1957/58)
Article by Suwarti Bintang Suradi (Gerwani), dated Berlin 20 Dec 1957, in WIDF's magazine on Indonesia's West Irian campaign: mass rally of a million in Jakarta, ten-minute silence, general strike in Dutch firms, takeover of Dutch enterprises, KLM ban, UN defeat, international support. Names Gerwani among organisations in the Central Action Committee for the Liberation of West Irian.
Artikel Suwarti Bintang Suradi (Gerwani), bertanggal Berlin 20 Des 1957, di majalah WIDF tentang kampanye Irian Barat: rapat raksasa sejuta orang di Jakarta, hening sepuluh menit, mogok umum di perusahaan Belanda, pengambilalihan perusahaan Belanda, larangan KLM, kekalahan di PBB, dukungan internasional. Menyebut Gerwani di antara organisasi dalam Komite Aksi Pusat Pembebasan Irian Barat.
“The Central Action Committee for Liberation of West Irian comprises 'mass organisations of workers, peasants, students, youth and women, including Gerwani (Indonesian Women's Movement)' (p. 1).”
1955 article by Suharti (Suharti Suwarto), Vice-President of Gerwani, based on her speech at the WIDF Council in Geneva. Links the Bandung Conference to peace; says Gerwani had 281,000 members; calls for reunion of Western Irian; reports women's election preparations, winning the right to be polling officers, support f
shared: Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, West New Guinea (Papua), West Irian campaign
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 Federation of Trade Unions, World Federation of Democratic Youth, Suwarti Bintang Suradi, Cairo
Znamia, 31 Oct 1954, p. 124: opening of Yekaterina Shevelyova's travel essay 'On the Island of Java'. She says a Soviet Anti-Fascist Women's Committee delegation, invited by Gerwani, spent almost a month in Java, then summarises Dutch colonialism, the 1949 Round Table settlement, and the 1954 dissolution of the Dutch-I
shared: Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru
WIDF Council (Peking, 24-30 April 1956) 'Appeal to the Women of Asia and Africa', with a side item on a European girls' conference in Paris. The appeal salutes anticolonial struggles, welcomes the Bandung principles, and opposes the Baghdad and SEATO pacts and nuclear tests. Indonesia and Gerwani are not named.
shared: World Federation of Democratic Youth, colonial rule, nekolim, Afro-Asian solidarity
Bintang Timur, 28 August 1956, p. 2 (four-page issue; OCR jumbled). A short item, 'Salam Gerwani pada wanita Mesir', reports Gerwani's message of solidarity to Egyptian women in the Suez nationalisation crisis: Indonesian women are 'proud' and fully support Egypt's heroic, patriotic defence of its national claim. Surro
shared: Cairo, colonial rule, nekolim, Afro-Asian solidarity
Special report by Yvonne Quiles in WIDF's magazine (1961) on the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo (January 1961, ~200 delegates, 50 countries): anticolonial denunciations, calls for solidarity and disarmament, a resolution on a liaison body and journal, debates on women's rights and personal status. Indones
shared: Cairo, colonial rule, nekolim, Afro-Asian solidarity
Nijmeegsch Dagblad (13 Mar 1956) on John Foster Dulles's brief Jakarta visit and offer of economic aid. A young woman belonging to Gerwani, among about two dozen demonstrators shouting 'Abolish SEATO', threw a piece of paper at his car and was detained for questioning.
shared: Jawaharlal Nehru, foreign aid and investment
Dolgozó Nő, 1 Feb 1958. Article on West Irian and the Netherlands, presenting Dutch rule as colonial exploitation of a resource-rich territory that is part of Indonesia; it states Gerwani is highly active in the campaign to regain West Irian, supported by Asian and African women's groups and all 80 member federations o
shared: West New Guinea (Papua), colonial rule, nekolim, West Irian campaign