A Legacy of Two Worlds
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Hundreds of Kartini's letters are kept in a temperature-controlled library in the Netherlands. But in her birthplace of Jepara, Central Java, the Kartini Museum gathers dust.
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Inside the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) building in the university town of Leiden, is a room housing the most complete collection of Kartini's letters and documents. The archives are kept in a special room, not usually open to the public. We store the archives in acid-free material," Jan Rosmalen, the collection coordinator, told Tempo.
On rows of racks are stored invaluable old documents, including fi
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