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Kartini: Name: Weny Anggraini Class: 1 D4 A NIM: P17331120471

Weny Anggraini is a student with ID number P17331120471 studying in class 1 D4 A. The document provides biographical information about Kartini, an Indonesian feminist born in 1879 who advocated for women's rights and education. It describes her background and family, her exposure to Western ideals through schooling, her activism through letters protesting gender inequality, her forced marriage which prevented further education, and her efforts to establish a school for girls in Indonesia before her untimely death at age 25 while giving birth to her first child.

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Weny Anggraini is a student with ID number P17331120471 studying in class 1 D4 A. The document provides biographical information about Kartini, an Indonesian feminist born in 1879 who advocated for women's rights and education. It describes her background and family, her exposure to Western ideals through schooling, her activism through letters protesting gender inequality, her forced marriage which prevented further education, and her efforts to establish a school for girls in Indonesia before her untimely death at age 25 while giving birth to her first child.

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Name : Weny Anggraini

Class : 1 D4 A
NIM : P17331120471

KARTINI

Kartini was born to a noble family on April 21, 1879, in the village of Mayong, Java,
Indonesia. Kartini's mother, Ngasirah, was the daughter of a religious scholar. Her father,
Sosroningrat, was a Javanese aristocrat working for the Dutch colonial government. This
afforded Kartini the opportunity to go to a Dutch school, at the age of 6. The school opened
her eyes to Western ideals. During this time, Kartini also took sewing lessons from another
regent's wife, Mrs. Marie Ovink-Soer. Ovink-Soer imparted her feminist views to Kartini, and
was therefore instrumental in planting the seed for Kartini's later activism.
When Kartini reached adolescence, Javanese tradition dictated that she leave her Dutch
school for the sheltered existence deemed appropriate to a young female noble.
Struggling to adapt to isolation, Kartini wrote letters to Ovink-Soer and her Dutch
schoolmates, protesting the gender inequality of Javanese traditions such as forced
marriages at a young age, which denied women the freedom to pursue an education.
Ironically, in her eagerness to escape her isolation, Kartini was quick to accept a
marriage proposal arranged by her father. On November 8, 1903, she wed the regent of
Rembang, Raden Adipati Joyodiningrat. Joyodiningrat was 26 years older than Kartini, and
already had three wives and 12 children. Kartini had recently been offered a scholarship to
study abroad, and the marriage dashed her hopes of accepting it. According to Javanese
tradition, at 24 she was too old to expect to marry well.
Intent on spreading her feminist message, with her new husband's approval, Kartini
soon set about planning to start her own school for Javanese girls. With help from the Dutch
government, in 1903 she opened the first Indonesian primary school for native girls that did
not discriminate on the basis of their social status. The school was set up inside her father's
home, and taught girls a progressive, Western-based curriculum. To Kartini, the ideal
education for a young woman encouraged empowerment and enlightenment. She also
promoted their lifelong pursuit of education. To that end, Kartini regularly corresponded
with feminist Stella Zeehandelaar as well as numerous Dutch officials with the authority to
further the cause of Javanese women's emancipation from oppressive laws and traditions.
Her letters also expressed her Javanese nationalist sentiments.
On September 17, 1904, at the age of 25, Kartini died in the regency of Rembang,
Java, of complications from giving birth to her first child. Seven years after her death, one of
her correspondents, Jacques H. Abendanon, published a collection of Kartini's letters,
entitled "From Darkness to Light: Thoughts About and on Behalf of the Javanese People." In
Indonesia, Kartini Day is still celebrated annually on Kartini's birthday.

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