1. Marco Kartodikromo, known by his pen name Mas Marco, was an Indonesian journalist and writer.
22 Facts About Marco Kartodikromo
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Marco Kartodikromo died in the camp of malaria in 1932.
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Marco Kartodikromo, who preferred writing in Malay, experimented with new phrasings at a time when the state-owned publisher Balai Pustaka was attempting to standardise the language.
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Marco Kartodikromo was born in Blora, Central Java, Dutch East Indies, in 1890 to a low-ranking priyayi family.
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Marco Kartodikromo made his way to Bandung, West Java, where he found employment at Medan Prijaji, a newspaper run by Tirto Adhi Soerjo.
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The paper was the mouthpiece of the Native Indonesian Journalists' Group, which Marco Kartodikromo led and had helped establish with Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo and Darnakoesoemo.
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On 26 January 1915, Marco Kartodikromo came under investigation by the Justice Office of the Dutch East Indies for publishing several further anti-Dutch editorials.
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Marco Kartodikromo was convicted of revolutionary activity and sentenced to nine months at Mlaten Prison; however, due to public outcry he was released after 100 days.
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Marco Kartodikromo was chosen by Goenawan, chief editor of the daily Pantjaran Warta, to go to the Netherlands as a correspondent.
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Marco Kartodikromo moved to Semarang and became a commissioner of the Sarekat Islam with Semaun; he joined the newspaper Sinar Djawa.
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On 15 December 1919, Marco Kartodikromo left Sinar Hindia and took a position as head of Soero Tamtomo, published by the Forestry Union Staff Union Wono Tamtomo.
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Marco Kartodikromo was imprisoned for six months for one of his writings, Sjairnja Sentot, with the paper.
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In 1921 Marco Kartodikromo moved to Salatiga and became involved with the press there.
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Marco Kartodikromo was sentenced to two years in a Batavian prison for another of his writings.
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In 1924, Marco Kartodikromo published Rasa Merdika, which dealt with a young man who goes against his priyayi father, a tool of the Dutch colonial government, and tries to find personal independence.
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Marco Kartodikromo was exiled to Boven-Digoel, Papua, in 1926 for his writings and involvement in the 1926 revolt led by the Communist Party of Indonesia.
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Marco Kartodikromo died there of malaria on 18 March 1932.
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Marco Kartodikromo was an early Indonesian example of the social realist movement.
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Socialist literary critic Bakri Siregar writes that Marco Kartodikromo drew on his experiences while visiting the Netherlands in writing Studen Hidjo.
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Marco Kartodikromo himself enjoyed baiting the colonial government, reportedly inviting his readers to work together and criticise the Dutch for their "mismanagement and caprice".
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Hendrik Maier, a lecturer at Leiden University, writes that Marco Kartodikromo was "primarily inspired by dreams and ideals", noting that the writer intended to create a community of politically aware Indonesians to work against the colonial government in solidarity and equality.
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Marco Kartodikromo described his ideal political state as having "".