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Raden Adjeng Kartini: By: Artha Manurung

Raden Adjeng Kartini was a prominent Indonesian feminist born in 1879 who opened the first school for girls in Java in 1916 and symbolized the Indonesian independence movement and feminism in Indonesia. She came from a noble family and attended Dutch school until adolescence when she was made to leave. She wrote letters advocating for gender equality, education for women, and against forced marriages and isolation of women.

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Raden Adjeng Kartini: By: Artha Manurung

Raden Adjeng Kartini was a prominent Indonesian feminist born in 1879 who opened the first school for girls in Java in 1916 and symbolized the Indonesian independence movement and feminism in Indonesia. She came from a noble family and attended Dutch school until adolescence when she was made to leave. She wrote letters advocating for gender equality, education for women, and against forced marriages and isolation of women.

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Raden Adjeng Kartini

By : Artha Manurung
Raden Adjeng Kartini

Symbol of Opened the


Independenc First
Through First Girls’
Born on 21st e Movement Indonesian
Darkness into School in Java
April 1879 and Primary
Light (1911) (1916)
Feminism in School for
Indonesia Girls
Early Years

Born to a noble Went to Dutch When she reached


family school at the age adolescence she
of 6 was dictated that
she leave her
• Her mother • Mrs. Marie school
was the Ovink-Soer
daughter of a imparted her
religious feminism views
scholar to Kartini
• Her father was
a Javanese
aristocrat
Feminism
• Kartini was struggling with isolation so she wrote letters
to Mrs. Marie Ovink-Soer and her Dutch schoolmates

Isolation
about gender equality, Javanese tradition such as forced
marriages, and no freedom for women to pursue
education

• Kartini accept the marriage proposal from her father in


order to escape her isolation

Marriage
• Her husband was Raden Adipadi Joyodiningrat, who was
26 years older than her, had 3 wives and 12 childrens
• Intent on spreading her feminism message with her
husband approval

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