Biography of Ki Hajar Dewantara
BIOGRAPHY OF KI HAJAR DEWANTARA
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Dosen Pengampu : Dr. Sri Marmoah, M.Pd
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Nama : Yunita Dwi Ardianti
Kelas : 6B
Biography of Ki Hajar Dewantara
Ki Hajar Dewantara is an education reporter for the people Indonesian natives during the Dutch colonial era. He was born on May 2, 1889 in Yogyakarta with the name Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat. 3 After he was 5 years old or 40 years old, on February 25, 1928 to be exact, he changed his name to Ki Hajar Dewantara. He comes from the Yogyakarta royal family
Ki Hajar Dewantara's education started from the Dutch elementary school (ELS), then continued at the Stovia medical school (Bumiputra Medical School). However, due to a lack of funds, Ki Hajar Dewantara did not graduate from medical school in 1989. After dropping out of school, he made a sedentary career as a factory worker. Starting from an employee of the Probolinggo sugar factory, a worker at the Rathkamp pharmacy in Yogyakarta and once a journalist. Then he entered the political arena together with Dandirdja Setiabudi (known as Dr. Douwes Dekker) and with dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo. They led a political association called the Indische Party, where at this time Indonesia was suffering greatly under Dutch colonialism.
In 1913, the name Ki Hajar Dewantara began to be in the spotlight because of his courage to rebel through writing against Dutch orders to commemorate 100 years of Napoleon colonizing Indonesia. For this action, he was exiled to the Netherlands at his own request. In his exile, Ki Hajar Dewantara actually had the opportunity to learn about education and teaching.
Ki Hajar Dewantara donated his energy to the Yogyakarta Adhidarma school in 1921. One year later, on July 3, 1922 to be precise, Ki Hajar Dewantara founded a school namely: National Onderwys Institut Taman Siswa which was later changed to the National Taman Siswa College.
After the independence era, he served as the first Minister of Education, Learning and Culture. He died on April 26, 1959 and was buried in Wijayabrata, Yogyakarta. Through the Decree of the President of the Republic of Indonesia No. 305 of 1959, he was declared a Hero of the National Movement and his date of birth, May 2, was made National Education Day in Indonesia. He is known as the Father of Indonesian Education. Apart from that, until now the Taman Siswa college that he founded still exists and already has schools from elementary to tertiary level schools.
The value of character eduacation in the biographical text of Ki Hajar Dewantara from childhood to adulthood.
> Childhood and Youth
1. Simple
2. Independent
3. Obey in religion
> Adulthood
1. Never give up
2. Intelligent
3. Creative
4. Have an artistic aoul
> The time to Estabilish the Indische Partij
1. Brave
2. Communicative
3. Firm