''Taman Siswa'' (), officially the Tamansiswa Educational Association Headquartered in Yogyakarta (), was a Javanese educational movement and

school system A state school, public school, or government school is a primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation and operated by the government of the state. State-funded schools ar ...

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 pronunciation (2 May 1889 in Pakualaman � ...

in 1922. It began by founding a

kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cen ...

(Taman Idria) and then through adding schools at various levels it established a University ( Universitas Sarjanawiyata Tamansiswa) in 1959.

References

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 Education in the Netherlands Education in Indonesia Schools in the Dutch East Indies {{Indonesia-hist-stub