Ki Hajar Dewantara Quotes

1889–1959 Indonesia

Ki Hajar Dewantara (1889 – 1959) was a leading Indonesian independence movement activist, writer, columnist, politician, and pioneer of education for native Indonesians in Dutch colonial times. He founded the Taman Siswa school, an institution that provided education for indigenous commoners, which otherwise was limited to the Javanese aristocracy and the Dutch colonials.