Jan 16, 2022
Sandiah Ibu Kasur's 96th Birthday
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Today’s Doodle celebrates Indonesian children’s entertainer and educator Sandiah, better known as Ibu Kasur by her fans. Renowned as a patient and loving motherly figure, Kasur taught generations of Indonesian youth moral values and lessons for the future on a variety of platforms—most famously as the host of the popular children’s show “Taman Indria.”
Ibu Kasur was born with the name Sandiah in Jakarta, Indonesia on this day in 1926. She joined the Indonesian Scouts, where she met her future husband, Pak Kasur. Driven by a dedication to children’s education that blossomed in junior high, Kasur and her husband opened an early education school called the Mini Kindergarten in their own home in 1965. This school formed the foundation for the Kasurs’ lifetime of service to Indonesian youth education.
Kasur extended her educational programs across Indonesia as a host of children’s programming on Radio Republik Indonesia and as the head of the Setia Toddler Foundation, which established four kindergarten branches nationwide by the 1990s. Kasur also edited a children’s magazine, produced a children’s film, and composed dozens of nursery rhymes. If you listen closely to Kasur's typically short compositions, you can hear that they exclude the letter “r” to make songs for children that are easy to both remember and pronounce.
On National Children’s Day in 1988, Kasur was awarded the Presidential Award for her achievements as both a creative and a dedicated educator. Today, many of Kasur’s 150 children’s songs, such as “Kucingku” (My Cat) or “Bertepuk Tangan” (Clapping Hands), are still sung by young people across Indonesia.
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