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Raden Ajeng Kartini
The nameof Raden Ajeng Kartini is closely associated with the emancipation movement of Indonesia women. Her activities were confined within the walls of her father's residence in Jepara, Central Java. Yet,her work and ideas have greatly influenced goverment policyand our thoughts and outlook concerning the status and rights of women.
Kartini lived at the time when education, employment outside the home, freedom to decide in marriage,and all such things, were beyond the woman's reach. She saw this with deep sorrow and resentment. Kartini was born in 1879, at a time when schools were still rare, and only meat to be attended by the sons of government official. As a daugther of a regent, a nobleman of the highest rank in the localgoverment, Kartini enjoyed elementary education. Throught her own reading and correspondence with Dutch friends she became acquainted with thegreatest thinkers of the west.
For a girl in her teens at that time, Kartini was very progressive in her ideas. When her father did not allow her to continue her studies in Holland, she was frustrated. However, fortunately, through her brother's comforting and encouraging words she got over her depression, and decided to set up a girls' school within the confines of the regent's residence. She gathered the girls from the neighbourhood, and taught them to read and write, and other useful skills. Another blow befell her when she was required to marry the regent of Rembang, a man of middle age who had already been married. It was against Javanese custom to disobey a father's wish, so she left her work in Jepara to her sister, and went to Rembang. She hada faint hope that as a regent's wife she would be able to accomplish more than as a regent's daugther.
In Rembang, the first thing she did was to set up a school for girls, but even here she did not see thecompletion of her work. She died soon after giving birth to a son, at the age of 25.
kartini's ideas and ideals are expressedin her letters, which have been edited under the title of “Through Darkness into Light”, originallywas written in Dutch, now translated into Indonsian.