In her captivating autobiographical novel Buiten het gareel [Out of Line], the Indonesian author Suwarsih Djojopuspito painted a vivid image of her experiences as an activist teacher during the last few years of Dutch rule in Indonesia. The book, published in Dutch in 1940, tells the story of Sulastri, an idealistic young teacher who runs a non-governmental school for Indonesian children together with her husband, Sugondo.
Continue reading Not your Average National Hero: Scattered Archives and the Women of the Indonesian Anticolonial MovementAuthor: Kirsten Kamphuis
She is a junior researcher at the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at Münster University. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and was an Affiliated Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). She is currently working on a book about girls’ education in colonial Indonesia, as well as a project on women’s work and religion in the young Indonesian Republic. Her broader research interests include the history of childhood and youth and comparative histories of Southeast Asia.