Ratna Sarumpaet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ratna Sarumpaet

Women's rights activist and filmmaker

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1948

Place of Birth: Tarutung, Sumatra, Indonesia

Profession: actor, writer, film director

Nationality: Indonesia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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About Ratna Sarumpaet

  • Ratna Sarumpaet (born 16 July 1948) is an Indonesian human rights activist.
  • She is also a theatrical producer, actress, film director, and writer.
  • In July 2019 she was sentenced to two years in jail for spreading Hoaxes. Sarumpaet, born into a politically active Christian family in North Sumatra, initially studied architecture in Jakarta.
  • After seeing a play by Willibrordus S.
  • Rendra in 1969, she dropped out and joined his troupe.
  • Five years later, after marrying and converting to Islam, she founded the Satu Merah Panggung; the troupe did mostly adaptations of foreign dramas.
  • As she became increasingly concerned about her marriage and unhappy about the local theatre scene, two years later Sarumpaet left her troupe and began to work in television; she only returned in 1989, after divorcing her abusive husband. The murder of Marsinah, a labour activist, in 1993 led Sarumpaet to become politically active.
  • She wrote her first original stageplay, Marsinah: Nyanyian dari Bawah Tanah (Marsinah: Song from the Underground), in 1994 after becoming obsessed with the case.
  • This was followed by several other politically charged works, several of which were banned or restricted by the government.
  • Increasingly disillusioned by the autocratic acts of Suharto's New Order government, during the 1997 legislative elections Sarumpaet and her troupe led pro-democracy protests.
  • For one of these, in March 1998, she was arrested and jailed for seventy days for spreading hatred and attending an "anti-revolutionary" political gathering. After her release, Sarumpaet continued to participate in pro-democracy movements; these actions led to her fleeing Indonesia after hearing rumours that she would be arrested for dissent.
  • When she returned to Indonesia, Sarumpaet continued to write politically charged stageplays.
  • She became head of the Jakarta Art Board in 2003; two years later she was approached by UNICEF and asked to write a drama to raise awareness of child trafficking in Southeast Asia.
  • The resulting work served as the foundation for her 2009 feature film debut, Jamila dan Sang Presiden (Jamila and the President).
  • This film was submitted to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film but not nominated.
  • The following year, she released her first novel, Maluku, Kobaran Cintaku (Maluku, Flame of My Love).

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