Institution

Taman Siswa

1922 · 20th century

Taman Siswa ('Garden of Pupils') is an Indonesian school movement founded by Ki Hajar Dewantara in Yogyakarta on 3 July 1922. Combining Javanese culture with modern teaching methods and refusing Dutch subsidies, it trained a generation of nationalists and spread across the Dutch East Indies, and it still runs schools and a university.

Taman Siswa
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Taman Siswa. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/taman-siswa
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