''Taman Siswa'' ( en, Garden of Pupils) was a Javanese educational movement and

school system State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in pa ...

founded by

Ki Hadjar Dewantara Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat (EYD: Suwardi Suryaningrat); from 1922 also known as Ki Hadjar Dewantara (EYD: Ki Hajar Dewantara), which is also written as Ki Hajar Dewantoro to reflect its Javanese sounds (2 May 1889 in Pakualaman – 26 Ap ...

in 1922.

Sources

* Meijers, C. H., 1973, ''De Taman Siswa en het regeringsonderwijs: Ontwikkelingen in het Indonesische onderwijs vanaf 1945''. Amsterdam: Doctoraalscriptie. * Reksohadiprodjo, Mohammad Said, 1976, ''Taman Siswa's Gedachten Wereld''. Jakarta, Indonesia: Yayasan Idayu. * Tsuchiya, Kenji, 1988, ''Democracy and Leadership: The Rise of the Taman Siswa Movement in Indonesia''. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, *

, 1935, ''Een en ander over Nationaal Onderwijs en het Instituut 'Taman Siswa' te Jogjakarta'' * Tuin, J. van der, 1996, ''Voor volk of vaderland? De intenties van de overheid aangaande het 'wilde onderwijs' in Nederlands-Indië, 1920-1940''. Leiden: RU-Leiden, doctoraalscriptie pedagogiek/onderwijskunde Dutch East Indies Education in Indonesia Schools in the Dutch East Indies {{Indonesia-hist-stub