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GERWANI mahu tutup pejabat2 USIS

Cleaned OCR text (Fair (0.793); proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026)). Old Indonesian spelling has been converted to modern EYD. [Unreadable] marks text that could not be recovered. English translation below.

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[Transcribed from the page image by Claude, Oct 2026 – Tesseract OCR of this low-contrast clipping failed] GERWANI MAHU TUTUP PEJABAT2 USIS JAKARTA, Selasa. — Gerwani, sebuah gerakan wanita Indonesia yang berhaluan kiri, telah mengirim kawat kepada Presiden Sukarno, menuntut Kerajaan supaya menutup Perkhidmatan Penerangan Amerika Syarikat (USIS) dan menghantar pulang sukarelawan-sukarelawan damai yang kini sedang melatih ahli-ahli sukan Indonesia, demikian "Harian Rakyat", akhbar Parti Komunis melaporkan semalam. Akhbar tersebut berkata dalam kawatnya itu, Gerwani juga mengutuk kenyataan bersama antara Presiden Johnson dan Tengku Abdul Rahman, Perdana Menteri Malaysia. — Reuter.

English translation

=== [Page 1] === GERWANI WANTS USIS OFFICES CLOSED JAKARTA, Tuesday. – Gerwani, a left-wing Indonesian women's movement, has sent a cable to President Sukarno demanding that the Government close the United States Information Service (USIS) and send home the peace volunteers [Peace Corps] who are now training Indonesian athletes, the Communist Party newspaper "Harian Rakyat" reported yesterday. The newspaper said that in its cable Gerwani also condemned the joint statement of President Johnson and Tengku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia. – Reuter.