In the letter that
was sent to her friend, Stella in the Netherlands, Kartini once wrote:
--You ask, whether its origin confined within the four
walls I thick? Do you think I would stay in prison or any such thing? Instead,
Stella prison mansions, broadleafs, but around the yard it was a high wall,
the wall is our prison. How well the breadth of the house and our yard, if
always have to stay there, it feels too crowded ....
Quote, this letter is enough to prove how very limited
measure of a woman who lived in that period. Kartini was born on 21 April 1879
and lived for 25 years and then as a boy and married to a Regent anyway. High
wall that looks and who does not seem preclude any woman in achieving gender
equality, equality between women and men. When a man has the right to pursue
higher education with extensive opportunities to be gained, because it's
educational, it is a woman companion, even the waiter for a man. Was a
teenager, a woman prepared to be a bride - the wife - was never prepared so exist as citizens who have the ability to bureaucratic tasks or things like that
can provide a living as well as a high status in the social life. In a
patriarchal culture, a woman is the object, not the master; something that is
not fair, because no one can choose to be born as a man or as a woman.
Kartini is the one who knows, that women have a problem, she
knows the origins of the issue, and knows also how to find a solution. She has
the characteristics of a wise man. The husband who has had three concubines, to
fully support the establishment of girls' school, a simple education that
proceeds in her neighbourhood. There is no single thing that can make a woman to
be smart then change the destiny of life except take advantage of learning
opportunities. The fate of a woman is in the hands of the women themselves, not
in the hands of anyone. Kartini was unsuccessful in reaching their dreams to study
in the Netherlands - she was a woman and did not get permission from the
father. However, Kartini never fails to break "the wall" thick - ban a
tradition for a woman to be able to go beyond the educational process as well
as a man.
Without the work of Ibu Kartini, is there any women will get
ample opportunities in terms of education as well as the possibilities that can
be obtained later? One hundred years ago a woman only second-class citizens who
do not become more important when compared with first-class citizens. Now, if
the woman in question has the support of the family as well as local culture,
justifying government policy, and the woman in question was struggling, so he
will be first-class citizens.
However, this does not mean, that a woman had committed acts
contrary to the views and attitude of a man then lead to conflict. Men and
women are partners, co-equal in the sea of life, so the cruise ship will be
peaceful and balanced. Children who likened all passengers can reach the
destination safely.
Commencing this year, then Kartini was lying peacefully
in bed lasting longer in the tomb for 109 years Rembang. But the ideas about
women's empowerment never die with her. Kartini's letters written in gold ink
and become part of the history of a woman who drove destiny to become a good
housewife and also have a profession even seats that determine the hierarchy
and bureaucracy. Not always black night, after a long dark dawn will break,
darkness has also come out brighter. Kartini and your name remain etched
eternal, holy, and smelled of jasmine ....
Dewi Linggasari
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