Examining the History of the Kartini School Building in Bogor

BOGOR-TODAY.COM, BOGOR –SMAN 9 Bogor building which is located at Jalan Kartini No. 1, Ciwaringin, Central Bogor District, Bogor City is known to have a long history. In the Dutch colonial era, the building was a Kartini School or a special school for noble women as well as a dormitory for teachers and students.

The building which has two floors includes one of the Cultural Heritage Buildings (BCB) in the city of Bogor which was built in 1914 by KartiniFonds (Kartini Foundation), a foundation formed in 1912 and chaired by Conrad Theodore van Deventer in The Hague, Netherlands.

Initially KartiniFonds founded the Kartini School in Semarang City in 1912, then in Batavia now Jakarta (1914), Buitenzorg or Bogor (1914), Madiun (1914), Malang (1915), Pekalongan (1916) and Cirebon (1914).

Standing on a land area of ​​2,255 square meters, the building still looks to have a classic Dutch-style architecture that makes the Kartini School building look sturdy and beautiful.

The Kartini School in Bogor was first opened on May 2, 1915 in a house on Jalan Panagaran No.19 Bogor, then officially occupied the school building on Jalan Kartini in 1918.

Quoting from De Kartini-scholen voor meisjes: het archief van het Kartini-fonds, 1912-1960, National Archief van Nederland, The Hague, stated that the Kartini School is one of the efforts to create opportunities for upper class Javanese women in the world of education and to realize their dreams. RA Kartini in the emancipation of women.

Kartini School received full support from the Governor General at the time and also Queen Wilhelmina in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Dutch government distributed f23,000 assistance to build Kartini School facilities and infrastructure.

Initially, Kartini School was only intended for the aristocratic group and all the teachers were Dutch women with a two-year study period.

However, as the school developed, Kartini School began to accept students from the middle group and the study period became seven years. Until 1928, even indigenous women could teach and become administrators at the Kartini School.

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The existence of the Kartini School was inseparable from the role of Jacques Henri Abendanon, who at that time served as Minister van Onderwijs, Religie en Industrie (Minister of Education, Religion and Industry) of the Dutch East Indies and his wife Rosa Manuela Abendanon Mandri.