Marsinah name. Do not wear any frills . Marsinah enough alone . Hadjah not , nor is it Raden Maya , especially Kanjeng Gusti , do not wear the title DR or SH . Only Marsinah . Simple names , as the names of the people most . Marsinah its name , the daughter of a poor farmer Mastin . Do not have seats carved teak .Moreover, the house is surrounded by a fence retainer . Born from the womb Sumini , who died in childbirth because Marsinah sister had no money , brought immediately to the hospital .Marsinah his name since three -year -old raised by her grandmother , because my mother and father passed away some where. Do not expect to wear a school uniform slippery distrika by the maid . Precisely Marsinah should help bring a basket lunch to his uncle in the field . Helping aunt in the kitchen cooking , and washing clothes . But Marsinah never complained and demanded equal rights of men and women . Helping aunt and uncle , has become an obligation for those who " ride " because the parents are gone . Family Marsinah not among Depati , district officer or headman . Only a poor farmer . Marsinah know it . He must also sell snacks for school fees .Marsinah like reading glasses so . Fill free to read while working . Not accompanied by ladies in waiting , or hot tea are available in the home garden . No time to preen and treat the body to the salon . The money got from selling food Marsinah , just enough to buy old newspapers
Marsinah often come to the neighbor just to watch the news in the tipi . Not gossiping , giggling . Marsinah name that had Modok at SMA Muhammadiyah . The desire to be a teacher at the school went to Teachers' Training College was forced to a standstill . He was poor and had no money . He was not good at speaking English let alone the Netherlands . Marsinah do not have a dream to be like European women who escape from the confines . He only village women who want to become teachers with adequate wages .Marsinah not think about emancipation or about nature . He just wants to live and enough to eat . If then Marsinah a factory worker , not because she's a feminist who came out into the public space . And also not a proper woman 's nature opponents at home . He needed to eat , just by working a factory worker he could fulfill his life . There is no desire so Marsinah factory workers and left the village . He remained in the village hopes , and quite a laborer in the fields. But , when the ani - ani already replaced the sickle ; replaced with a tractor plowing a field ; diminishing workforce .Marsinah name an opponent . He was never afraid of being called PKI , extremist , or disobedience. Marsinah undermining equality of men and women, not demanding freed from the shackles of tradition. Marsinah
he only demanded a daily wage workers and friends of the plant must be
in accordance with the decision of the Minister of Manpower and
Government Decision . That's it. He demanded the company is complying with the rule of law . He demanded 13 laborers friends ( who are all men) who were detained in the District Military Command released . He did not demand for himself . And he did not demand for women workers only.Marsinah his name was in the middle of a noisy factory and the sun . He demands , not written in the bedroom or living room cool . He shouted aloud not only sad contemplation. He led the labor action . Problem guts not determined the nature of male or female . He could scold soldiers , guard company , " Sir, the state paid sampeyan . Task sampeyan not here . Sampeyan task against enemies of the state , not against the workers " . Marsinah also wrote a letter . But the letter is not addressed to Abendanon who later became a book . Marsinah wrote a letter to the company , where he worked . Instead of the letter containing the daydreams and fantasy . The letter containing the warning to the company to comply with the rule of law . And from that letter , a way of life Marsinah ends . The story of the tragic life Marsinah closed . He was kidnapped , murdered and dumped in the woods wilaiyin . In case of hand- tied , he was dragged . Pelvis was shattered . Bladder bruises . Pendaharaan ongoing in parts of the abdominal cavity . Wounds all over his body : cheeks , elbows , arms , covered in white cloth smeared with blood . UN agencies through the ILO , bloody tale Marsinah record in a document called the 1713 case .
