Kartini

Raden Adjeng Kartini (21 April 1879 - 17 September 1904), also known as Raden Ayu Kartini, was a prominent Indonesian activist who advocated for women's rights and female education. Kartini was concerned not only with women's emancipation, but also with other social justice issues in her society. Kartini saw the struggle for women's freedom, autonomy, and legal equality as part of a larger movement.

Raden Adjeng Kartini was born in the Dutch East Indies to an aristocratic Javanese family (present-day Indonesia). She wanted to continue her education after finishing primary school in Dutch, but Javanese women were not allowed to do so at the time. She met with a number of officials and influential people, including J.H. Abendanon, who was in charge of putting the Dutch Ethical Policy into action.

Her sisters carried on her legacy of educating girls and women after her death. Out of Darkness to Light, Women's Life in the Village, and Letters of a Javanese Princess were published in 1911 as a collection of Kartini's letters in a Dutch magazine. Her birthday is now celebrated as Kartini Day in her honor, with several schools named after her and a fund established in her honor to fund girls' education in Indonesia. She was fascinated by mysticism and was opposed to polygamy.

Birthdate: April 21 1879
Died: September 17 1904