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Taman Siswa (English: Garden of Pupils) was a Javanese educational movement and school system founded by Ki Hadjar Dewantara in 1922. It began by founding a kindergarten (Taman Idria) and then through adding schools at various levels it established a University ( Universitas Sarjanawiyata Tamansiswa ) in 1959.
In 1933, he began the magazine Pujangga Baru (New Writer — Poedjangga Baroe in the original spelling) with co-editors Amir Hamzah and Armijn Pane. The language of Pujangga Baru came in for criticism from those associated with the more classical School Malay and it was accused of publishing Dutch written with an Indonesian vocabulary.