Indonesia: Woman on Note

[Shahanshah]

I searched about all women on not, and found this to be the most beautiful one.


Kartini (1879 -1904), Raden Ayu Kartini, was a prominent Javanese and an Indonesian national heroine. She is known as a pioneer in the area of women's rights for native Indonesians.

Her thoughts was far ahead of her time, and later became a national icon. Like all upper-class women in her time, she wrote in dutch. Her letters were translated into english as Letters of a Javanese Princess


An older version.

"In 1964, President Sukarno declared R.A. Kartini's birth date, 21 April, as 'Kartini Day' - an Indonesian national holiday. This decision has been criticised. It has been proposed that Kartini's Day should be celebrated in conjunction with Indonesian Mothers Day, on 22 December so that the choice of R.A. Kartini as a national heroine would not overshadow other women who, unlike R.A. Kartini, took up arms to oppose the colonisers."

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Life is hard for people who are discriminated against for cultural reasons and even harder for those who resist such cultural discrimination. However, they deserve our support, because such discrimination denies a country the creative energy of the people considered less worthy. This is not just in nobody's interest, it is illogical and unjust.

Peter