For Friendship: Gyanchand, Suryadarma and Che Zahara on the World Congress of Mothers (1955)
1955 WIDF magazine feature 'For Friendship' with statements by Anusuya Gyanchand (India), Utami Suryadarma (Indonesia) and Che Zahara (Malaya) for the World Congress of Mothers. Suryadarma, a vice-president of the Preparatory Committee and of the Foundation for the Well-being of Indonesian Children, links Bandung to peace and anti-colonialism and demands Western Irian. Photo caption names Rasuna Said and Harjoto.
Fitur majalah WIDF 1955 'For Friendship' berisi pernyataan Anusuya Gyanchand (India), Utami Suryadarma (Indonesia), dan Che Zahara (Malaya) untuk Kongres Dunia Ibu. Suryadarma, wakil ketua Panitia Persiapan dan Yayasan Kesejahteraan Anak Indonesia, mengaitkan Bandung dengan perdamaian dan antikolonialisme serta menuntut Irian Barat. Keterangan foto menyebut Rasuna Said dan Harjoto.
“Suryadarma: 'colonialism is not yet dead... part of our country, Western Irian (Western New Guinea), is still in Dutch hands' (p. 1).”
WIDF magazine 1955 report on the Asian-African (Bandung) Conference, 18-24 April, listing participants and the ten principles of the communique, with supportive statements from women (Anusuya Gyanchand, Erika Wendland, Gusta Fucikova) for the World Congress of Mothers. Presents Bandung as boosting peace and disarmament
shared: Asian-African Conference, Bandung, National Federation of Indian Women, Anasuya Gyanchand, Bandung
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: Asian-African Conference, Bandung, West New Guinea (Papua), Bandung, conference abroad
Api Kartini (1959-60) profile for Kartini Day of Utami Suryadarma, wife of the Air Force chief, presented as a leading woman of Indonesian women's organisations: Kowani foreign-information head, chair of the Children's Welfare Foundation, Armed Forces arts committee and an AURI wives' committee, and founder of a girls'
shared: Children's Welfare Foundation, Utami Suryadarma, Lausanne
State Department intelligence report (13 Oct 1959) on Indonesia's new governmental bodies under Guided Democracy: Cabinet, National Advisory Council, National Planning Council. Appendices list members with functional-group labels, including S.K. Trimurti (teachers), Umi Sardjono (women), Rasuna Said and Emma Puradiredj
shared: Rasuna Said, Utami Suryadarma
WIDF magazine 'Women Write to Us' (1955), country letters after the World Congress of Mothers (Lausanne): Bulgaria, Argentina, France, India floods, and Indonesia. The Indonesia item reports delegate Mme Suryadarma's warm airport welcome, press and radio coverage of her Congress speech, and the Indonesian Women's Movem
shared: Utami Suryadarma, Lausanne, conference abroad
Harian Rakjat, 22 Mei 1955, hlm. 2. Sunday page with Zhou Enlai's report on the Bandung Conference and a Medan crime report on a woman shooting another; no Gerwani item.
shared: Asian-African Conference, Bandung, Bandung, Afro-Asian solidarity
Tempo magazine article (15 Dec 2024, Ita Fatia Nadia and Iwan Kurniawan) on Francisca Fanggidaej in the international women's and Afro-Asian movements: IUS/WFDY Prague 1947, Berlin Youth Festival 1951, Bandung 1955, WIDF in East Germany 1957 representing Gerwani, Cairo 1961. It cites Gita Mukherjee's WIDF report on Ger
shared: Asian-African Conference, Bandung, Bandung, Afro-Asian solidarity
Page 2 of the Daily Worker (New York, 26 Apr 1955) with Ralph Parker's 'Bandung Notebook' on the Asian-African Conference: Indonesian hosts, students, land and independence hopes. A separate item reports 27 doctors' protest over Claudia Jones's imprisonment, citing a WIDF report. Indonesian women appear only in a fragm
shared: Asian-African Conference, Bandung, Bandung, Afro-Asian solidarity