The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women (Raksasataya, 1968)
Chapter 'The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women' by Amara Raksasataya in The Annals of the American Academy (Jan. 1968, 'Women Around the World'). Surveys Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam: equal legal rights but modest office-holding; Thailand as case study of indirect influence. For Indonesia it notes women were about 10% of 1955 voters, with 20 of 261 MPs and 40 of 522 Constituent Assembly members. Gerwani is not named.
Bab 'The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women' oleh Amara Raksasataya di The Annals of the American Academy (Jan. 1968, 'Women Around the World'). Menelaah Birma, Indonesia, Filipina, Singapura, Thailand, dan Vietnam: hak hukum setara tetapi keterwakilan jabatan terbatas; Thailand sebagai studi kasus pengaruh tidak langsung. Untuk Indonesia disebut perempuan sekitar 10% pemilih 1955, dengan 20 dari 261 anggota DPR dan 40 dari 522 anggota Konstituante. Gerwani tidak disebut.
“Indonesia: 'only about 10 per cent of voters in the last national election in 1955 were women'; twenty women among 261 MPs and forty among 522 Constituent Assembly members (p. 87).”
Western Mail (Perth), 18 August 1949, p. 10, Denis Warner's anti-communist article 'Communist Blueprint for Asia'. It claims the February 1948 Calcutta Southeast Asia Youth and Students' Conference carried Moscow's instructions for revolt to Australia, Malaya, Burma, Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam. Indonesia's dele
shared: Vietnam, Singapore, Myanmar, Philippines
Western Mail (Perth), 18 Aug 1949, reprint of Denis Warner's article presenting the Feb 1948 Calcutta youth conference as a Moscow-directed 'blueprint' for Asian revolution. Indonesian delegate Francisca Fanggidaej is listed among the 'guests'; Warner says there is little to show 'his' politics and doubts Indonesian in
shared: Vietnam, Singapore, Myanmar, Philippines
FBIS monitored New China News Agency report (30 Nov 1949) on worldwide preparations for the Asian Women's Conference in Peking (opening 6 Dec). Notes Indonesian women's delegation to Peking, funded partly by women's groups in Italy, Belgium and Austria, and Dutch women protesting the colonial war. Context for WIDF-link
shared: Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines
WIDF documents volume (Budapest, December 1948) for the Conference of the Women of Asia: the report of the WIDF commission that toured South-East Asia in February-April 1948, plus country reports (Viet Nam, India, Malaya, China, Korea, Africa, Mongolia and others). Indonesia is mentioned only in passing: the commission
shared: Vietnam, Singapore, Myanmar
Sedjarah Pemerintahan Kota Djakarta, an official history of Jakarta's city government from Dutch Batavia to the end of 1957, compiled by Drs. The Liang Gie and published by the Kotapradja Djakarta Raya in 1958. It has nothing on Gerwani as such. It notes that women could vote for the Batavia council only from 1941 and
shared: women voters
De Locomotief, 7 Sept 1955: the Gerwani branch in Jombang forms a committee, led by a Mrs Kenrati (uncertain), to set up a children's care centre during the coming general elections so mothers can vote calmly. Evidence of Gerwani's practical electoral support for women and childcare.
shared: women voters
De Nieuwsgier, 17 Apr 1952: Gerwis hands a letter to the Egyptian consulate protesting the Cairo governor's decision that women may not take part in Egyptian elections, and urges Egypt to withdraw it. Early example of Gerwis's international women's-rights solidarity.
shared: women voters
De Waarheid, 22 Jan 1955, p. 5: feature on preparations for Indonesia's first general elections, with voter registration, party symbols for illiterate voters, the PKI-and-independents list and attacks on it from Masjumi and PSI. It names independent candidates, among them Salawati (Daud), described as a guerrilla leade
shared: women voters