Indonesia has picked May 2 as National Education Day to honor Suwardi Suryaningrat for his contributions to the country’s education system.
Among the legacies of Ki Hadjar, who is better known as Ki Hadjar Dewantara, is Taman Siswa school, which he established in 1922.
What is it about Taman Siswa that makes it so special and important [...]

The Taman Siswa, or “Garden of Students,” was an anticolonial educational movement in the Dutch East Indies founded by the Javanese nobleman Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat, also known as Ki Hadjar Dewantoro (1889–1959), in July 1922. Dutch-educated, Dewantoro was an active member of the nationalist movement, the founder of the Indies Party, and a member [...]