This figure, known as a heroine of women's emancipation, was born in Mayong, Jepara on Monday Pahing, April 21, 1879. She was the 4th of 8 children of the couple R.M.A.A. Sosroningrat and M.A. Ngasirah Sosronegoro (garwa ampil). R.A. Kartini's grandfather was Prince Ario Tjondronegoro IV, someone she admired as a figure who tried to break out of the old feudalistic tradition. Meanwhile, her mother was an ordinary woman, but descended from a family of prominent clerics who obeyed Islamic law (Gustami, 2000: 109-110). Therefore, it is clear that R.A. Kartini's attitude of being passionate about progress was inherited from her father, while R.A. Kartini's love for Islam was shaped by her mother. When R.A. Kartini was born, her father served as Wedana Mayong. However, in early 1881, when R.A. Kartini was 2 years old, R.M.A.A. Sosroningrat was appointed as Regent of Jepara (Taylor, 1976: 634). After that, they moved from Mayong to the Regent's Official Residence in Jepara. The idea of progress owned by R.A. Kartini must have been inherited from her father. R.M.A.A. Sosroningrat was one of four Regents in Java who had the ability to write and speak in Dutch (Pane, 2021: 3).

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