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Kartini

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Also known as Raden Adjeng Kartini, R.A. Kartini, Raden Ayu Adiningrat, R.A.Kartini Djojo Adhiningrat, Raden Ajeng Kartini, Kanjeng Raden Ayu Adipati Djojo Hadiningrat,

Raden Adjeng Kartini, also known as Raden Ayu Kartini (21 April 1879 – 17 September 1904), was a prominent Indonesian advocate of women's rights and female education.

Key facts

Person.honorific_prefix
Raden Adjeng
Person.name
Kartini
Person.image
COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Portret van Raden Ajeng Kartini TMnr 10018776.jpg
Person.caption
Portrait of Raden Adjeng Kartini
Person.birth_place
Jepara, Dutch East Indies
Person.death_place
Rembang, Dutch East Indies
Person.other_names
Raden Adjeng Kartini
Person.known_for
Women's emancipation; national heroine
Person.children
Soesalit Djojoadhiningrat
Person.father
Raden Adipati Sosroningrat
Person.mother
Ngasirah
Person.signature
Kartini signature 8-2.png

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Place of birth
Jepara
Place of death
Rembang
Languages spoken
Javanese
Religion
Islam
Image
Kartini met haar echtgenoot Raden Adipati Djojoadiningrat, regent van Rembang, KITLV 15470.tiff
Height
160
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Commons category
Kartini
date of birth
1879-04-21
date of death
1904-09-17
cause of death
puerperal disorders
ethnic group
Javanese
social classification
noble
manner of death
natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview

21 sections
Contents
  • Background
  • Biography
  • Early life
  • Education
  • Marriage and death
  • Accomplishments
  • Letters
  • East and West
  • Schools
  • Legacy and tributes
  • See also
  • Notes
  • Citations
  • Bibliography
  • Further reading
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
  • External links
  • Works
  • Archive
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Raden Adjeng Kartini, also known as Raden Ayu Kartini (21 April 1879 – 17 September 1904), was a prominent Indonesian advocate of women's rights and female education.

She was born into an aristocratic Javanese family in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). After attending a Dutch-language primary school, she wanted to pursue further education, but Javanese women at the time were barred from higher education. Instead, Kartini entered a period of seclusion mandated for teenage girls until they married. She acquired knowledge by reading books and by corresponding with Indonesian and Dutch people. Her father allowed her to go into the community beginning in 1896, although she remained an unmarried single woman. She opposed the Purdah-like seclusion of teenage girls and polygamy.

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