Kartini only lived for 25 years and 4 months. The ideas of this Javanese noblewoman, however, through her letters published in Door Duisternis tot Licht (From Darkness to Light), remain alive and well, more than a century after her birth in 1879. She has illuminated a wide segment of society.

Her thoughts about 'liberty, equality, fraternity'the slogan of the French Revolutioninfluenced the development of the nascent Indonesian nation. A year after