Kartini isn’t only a hero, but also an inspiration

To celebrate Kartini’s Day in April 21st, let's review and we look at what

is usually done by a woman in our habits. Sweeping, washing, sewing, and others

are familiar in woman habits, right? But, due to Kartini’s struggle, our women in

this era are different with her era. So, who is Kartini?

Raden Ajeng Kartini is an Indonesian noblewoman. She is the 5th child of

11 in her family. But she is the 1st daughter in her family. We always celebrate

her birthday date as Kartini's day on April 21st since Ir. Soekarno, 1st President of

Indonesia assign that day in May 5th, 1964 as Kartini’s day. Kartini is known as a

heroes because of her motivation about women education in her era. Although

she's only an elementary student, but she always fights for study and reads many

books in her house.

"Every women couldn't continue their school after 12th years old. They

have to married with a men who have been choosen by their parents", that

sentence is the reason why kartini couldn’t continue her school. She has to

married with someone that she has never known before. She always spends her

time with reads some dutch magazines and newspapers in her house. She is very

adept in dutch. She also writes some letters for her netherlandish friends. She

inpired by european women because of the european women education. Not only

studies, she also fights for netherland scholar ship with Mr. J. H. Abendanon help.

But before she gets her scholar ship, she has to married with Regent of Rembang,

K. R. M. Adipati Ario Singgih Djojo Adiningrat who has 3 wifes before. But, her

struggle for women education still survive.

In fact, her husband support and help her to build a woman school in

rembang. Her dreams were stopped because she had to pregnant and gave a birth

boy named R. M. Soesalit Djojoadiningrat. A few days later, kartini still couldn’t

continue her dreams because of her died. But her husband still help her and try to

realize her diamond dreams. Finally, he got some help from dutch ethical politicy

figure, Mr. Van Deventer to build "Kartini school", an Indonesian women school

in java area such as rembang, semarang, surabaya, yogyakarta, malang, madiun

cirebon and many others then become a foundation named Kartini Foundation

(Yayasan Kartini).

In my opinion, kartini isn't only a hero but also an inspriration especially

for an Indonesian women. Her struggle not only for her self but also for

indonesian woman. She also become an inspiration because of her thoughts about

women education. Without her, maybe not every women aware about how most

important education is. Maybe some women would obey with this sentence,

"every women has to stay in house and kitchen", and see the fate and reality

without assesment. Or maybe, we’re still colonized because of our knowledgeless.

With kartini, women could help to develop this nation to be greater.

Not only women education, kartini also to be a symbol of women

emancipation. Kartini made a woman level same as a man level. In this era, we

can see much woman works like a man, such as woman as a single parents, a

regent, businesswoman, director, president and many others. With emancipation,

woman can help her man and her family too. This is the reason why emancipation

also important for our life.

There are some young indonesian women who made Indonesia proud and

uplift our country. We have some young indonesian woman who has wonderful

talent such as Alexandra Asmasoebrata with her race champions, Asma Nadia

with her novels, and many others.

Kartini also an inspiration for a man. Kartini made a man look into the

woman and carrying her. When kartini gave a birth of her son, its also an

inspiration for men to see the women esspecially their mom when the women

struggle to give birth a new human in this world. A man also has to appreciate

what the woman do.

Kartini is an inspiration for technology too! Technology become an

important part that can easily accessed by women. It is very influential on the

knowledge of Indonesian Kartinis. The development of the intellect of the

individual, we could see the fact that women can learn by online sites that provide

information about anythings that they want. Through this process, education can

be reached by technology. Education is not only sitting and listening, but also the

process of learning one's curiosity, whether formal or informal. This is the same

way what is Kartini does when she’s learning without having to school.

Well, in this globaization era with social media facilities, it’s easier for

Indonesian kartinis to explore the briliant ideas . Uniting the Kartini who have

different capabilities into a unified system of cooperation to achieve mutual

success. That's what we should be manifested now. Because of abuse, domestic

violence, trafficking, social, and all associated with femaleness and her world can

only be solved by the synergy of the women themselves. Indonesian Kartinis

could express all problem and solve it by utilizing social networking, media, and

all access technologies. Thus, there is no longer any reason to be indifferent and

live in self-interest. Kartini and others Indonesian women heroes aren’t figure

who living for theme selves.