Kartini (Raden Adjeng)

Pada 1922, oleh Empat Saudara, Door Duisternis Tot Licht disajikan dalam bahasa Melayu dengan judul Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang; Boeah Pikiran. Buku ini diterbitkan oleh Balai Pustaka. Empat Saudara merujuk pada Bagindo Dahlan Abdullah, Zainudin Rasad, Sutan Muhammad Zain, dan Djamaloedin Rasad.

Secara literal, judul bahasa Belandanya tidak serta merta dapat diterjemahkan menjadi “Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang”. Kata-kata itu bisa diterjemahkan menjadi “Melalui Kegelapan Menuju Cahaya” atau “Dari Gelap Menuju Terang”. Frasa “Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang” merupakakan olahan literer yang dilakukan oleh Empat Saudara, yang "merefleksikan kehalusan rasa kesastraan dan penguasaan bahasa Melayu yang tinggi".

dimelajoekan oléh empat saudara; dengan pendahoeloean daripada J.H. Abendanon

Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang; Boeah Pikiran

Armijn Pane

Collection of letters of Kartini, a pioneer of women's rights for native Indonesians.

Habis gelap terbitlah terang

Raden Adjeng Kartini

Translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, this collection of letters was written by the daughter of a Javanese civil servant in the Dutch colonial government. She had been permitted the unusual privilege of attending a Dutch elementary school, but then returned home to seclusion during her adolescence, as was the Indonesian custom for women. The letters provide a fascinating picture of the life and spirit of the time during the period when Java was undergoing intimate contact with Western civilization. Through her writings she became a spokesman for the liberation and education of women, as well as an advocate for Indonesian nationalist aspirations. Co-published with the Asia Society.

Letters of a Javanese Princess

The letters Raden Ajeng Kartini wrote from her home in East Java to Stella Zeehandelaar, the 'modern girl' in Amsterdam, are amongst the most powerful and stirring of the many letters she wrote in the last four years of her life. They express both her passionate hope and powerful aspiration to bring about change - in her own life, to the position of Javanese women, to colonised Java - and reflect the deep disappointment she experienced and the compromises she had to make. Inspired by the European feminist writing of her day, these letters reveal how Kartini transformed these ideas into a manifesto for the emancipation of Javanese women and a platform for the decolonisation of Java. They trace the path from personal aspiration to the liberation of all women, from a concern for the position of women, to a radical assessment of colonial politics. This fully revised second edition is prefaced by an historical introduction and a foreword by the Indonesian writer Goenawan Mohamad, and includes the two formal memoranda on women's education written by Kartini in 1903.

Kartini's Letters to Stella Zeehandelaar, 1899-1903

On Feminism and Nationalism

Brieven van de Javaanse regentendochter (1897-1904), waarin haar ideeën over de vrouwenemancipatie worden verwoord.

Brieven Aan Mevrouw R.M. Abendanon-Mandri En Haar Echtgenoot Met Andere Documenten

"The freeing of women is inevitable -- it will come, only we cannot hasten its coming. The freedom of women will be the fruit of our suffering and pain, " wrote Ajeng Kartini in 1903. She did not live to see that freedom, but today she is counted among Indonesia's heroes and is honored by a national holiday, Kartini Day.

Kartini (Raden Adjeng)

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