Ratna Sarumpaet, a mother of a famous beautiful actress Atiqah Hasiholan is one of Indonesian women's right activist. She is also a theatrical producer, actress, film director and a writer. This woman was born on July 16th 1949. As we know from the infotainment that she was actually a christian activist and maybe because of this now she is very active and really concern on social condition especially condition which related to women, but then she became a moslem after her marriage.
The murder of Marsinah, a labor activist, in 1993 led her to become politically active. She wrote her first original stage play "Marsinah : Nyanyian Dari Bawah" after she being obsessed with the case. Not only about woman, but she was also active in politic. During Suharto's New Order government she has been arrested and jailed for spreading hatred and attending "anti-revolutionary" political gathering. After released, she continued to participate in pro democracy movements. Recently, ahe was approached by UNICEF to make a survey of child traficking in Southeast Asia.
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