Ki Hajar Dewantara

Who was Ki Hajar Dewantara?

Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat' is the activist movement Indonesian independence, columnist, politicians, and pioneer of education for the native Indonesia of Dutch colonial times. He is the founder of the College Student Park, an educational institution that provides an opportunity for indigenous commoners to earn the right to education as well as the aristocracy and the Netherlands.

His birth date is now celebrated in Indonesia as National Education Day. Part of the motto creation, tut wuri handayani, a slogan Ministry of National Education of Indonesia. His name is enshrined as a name battleship Indonesia, KRI Ki Hajar Dewantara. Portrait of himself immortalized in paper money 20,000 rupiah denomination of the bonds in 1998.

He was confirmed as a national hero by the 2nd President, Sukarno, on 28 November 1959.