Selamat ulang tahun! On this 25th of June, as she celebrates her birthday in Semarang and I start my day here in Rochester, I think of all that inspires me about and connects me to the beautiful soul that is Puji Astuti. Her Radiance Her Family Values Puji brings a sense of adventure and commitment…
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Drawing Inspiration from Kartini
A literate celebration of this influential Javanese woman, educator, feminist, advocate, reader/writer Today, April 21, is Kartini Day – Selamat Hari Kartini 🇲🇨 – a day when Indonesians celebrate the influence that a young Javanese woman, daughter of a regent, had on women’s rights and education. Because her legacy has been used by different Indonesian…
Why I Plan to Keep Talking about Digital Literacies in Indonesia
Since coming to Indonesia in September, I’ve been connecting with and learning from university lecturers and students, teachers and young people in elementary, junior high, and senior high school classrooms, fanfiction writers, pre-service teachers, policy academy instructors, concerned parents, literacy researchers and more – and when I tell them that I study young people’s digital…