Roehana Koeddoes: A Heroine of Education and Journalism

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Roehana Koeddoes: A Heroine of Education and Journalism - Roehana Koeddoes

is celebrated in Indonesia, mothers on 22 December. Although it. Neither of the nation's culture a great celebration still part many consider this opportunity a good opportunity to share their love and appreciation for the women to express that they particularly those increases which contributed generally to society

Regarding the Indonesian history, one of the West Sumatra stem heroines who receive insufficient recognition by the government what it has achieved, Roehana Koeddoes is. So far, with the exception of the local government of West Sumatra, respect Roehana- who made a great contribution to improving the standard of social life, to improve the economic prosperity and political consciousness of the nation was to increase despicable.

Roehana was born on 20 December 1884 in Koto Gadang, West Sumatra. Her father was Muhammad Rashad, a Dutch government employee, and her mother was Kiam. She had five siblings and nineteen half-siblings. One of her stepbrothers was Sutan Sjahrir, Indonesia's first prime minister.

, they link Almost all authors who have written about Roehana to education. While Taufik Abdullah her "the pioneer of women's education in Minangkabau" called (1973), other authors-Tamar Djaja (1980), Jeffrey A. Hadler (01) and Fitriyanti (01) -called her the first female educators in Minangkabau.

Fitriyanti work Roehana Koeddoes: Tokoh Pendidik dan Jurnalis Perempuan Pertama Sumatera (Roehana Koeddoes: Sumatran first female Educator and Journalist), published by Jurnal Perempuan in 01 , is deemed to be the most comprehensive biography Roehana ever written.

different titles have been proposed by various authors, are not an exaggeration. Roehana could be considered, in fact, as a figure who had an important role in education-oriented reforms during their time. Not only that, she is the founder of the first school specially women to educate determines an institution that had not been in this country so far.

There were a number of schools in West Sumatra been when Roehana class began, but they were generally established by the Government or certain institutions, which were directed to the education of male children. Moreover, students from schools tended statements for government work and relied on other people or institutions. In contrast Roehana oriented their school to be illuminated and the creation of self-employed women.

Roehana began to plunge into the world of education at a very young age. When she was seven years old provided them with new information and knowledge from newspapers aloud to her friends, to read it. Roehana was talented in reading because her father always brought Berita Ketjil home, published a newspaper in Medan. A year later, she began to teach their friends how to read and write. Although these activities just seemed a little out of the darkness of information Roehana step had enormous significance for people marked time.

your important breakthrough was made when they established Keradjinan Amai Setia on February 11, 1911 in Koto Gadang. This team had more than 60 scholarly women whose aim was to achieve various aspects of life of women in Koto Gadang promote fame across the nation. It is further established a school of the same name, to write their students with crafts production for women, reading and Arabic and Latin alphabets for the primary school level, mental and moral teaching and housekeeping (childcare, cooking).

Later moved Roehana Bukittinggi town and founded a new school, Roehana School. What differs from its previous one was the new school, in addition to give literacy object (Latin and Arabic), Roehana school provided its students with practical skills such as sewing.

Roehana also by their strong identified link to the press. Tamar Djaja (1956) called it "the first journalist in Indonesia", while Hadler (01) they considered "the first journalist in Minangkabau". Granted, Roehana did play a large part in local and national press. She was a pioneer in publishing a newspaper by and for women called Soenting Melajoe. They even became its editor and wrote for them on a regular basis. There were at least two articles of each issue you release in nine years.

Most Soenting readers were women. In one of his editions, 24 of his 35 clients were known to be women. More interestingly, almost half of the clients lived outside West Sumatra in Bengkulu, Palembang, Tapanuli, East Sumatra, Aceh and Java.

Soenting Melajoe played a role in the fight against the Minangkabau male dominance. This role was clearly visible from the various products manufactured by Roehana and other contributors in the post 1914 editions, suggesting many male authorities Minangkabau had emasculated the rights of women. In addition, the paper helped the use of Malay Minang among women spread. This was Soenting 's great achievements, women after rising the Minang formed Trends speak Dutch.

Equally important, Soenting also saw the birth of another women newspaper inspired, among others Soeara Perempoean (1919) and Asjraq (1925 ). Unlike Soenting , the Women observed to stay at home, the two papers stayed in various segments of women. While students interested in Soeara Perempoean were many women's organizations were more attracted Asjraq , because they tried to combine form and spirit of both Soenting Melajoe and Soeara Perempoean

publishing engages addition Soenting Melajoe , Roehana got involved in several other newspapers published. Perempoean Bergerak in Medan with Siti Satiaman and Parada Harahap and Radio in Padang. Some Roehana writings was published in other newspapers in Sumatra and Java.

Kompas daily called Roehana "A woman who reveals the world" on August 5, 2013, while historian Taufik Zahren categorized Roehana as one of the ladies of the nation in his book 7 Ibu Bangsa (7 nation Women). Fitriyanti Dahlia, author of biography Roehana really expected that Roehana life story to be adapted to this country in terms of their amazing contribution to film.

Unfortunately, it has not received recognition from the central government, say by agreement as a national hero. She deserves more credit for what she has done. History books show that she has actually done a lot for the development of their people, the region and the nation.

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