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About Ki Hajar Dewantara
Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat, better known by the name Ki Hajar Dewantara since 1922, 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.
Everything about Ki Hajar Dewantara →- Occupation
- politician, philosopher, resistance fighter, educator
- Position held
- Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology
- Citizenship
- Indonesia
- Born
- May 2, 1889
- Died
- April 28, 1959