Fransisca Fanggidaej

Fransisca Casparina Fanggidaej was born on 16 August 1925 in Noelmina, a village in Takari, Kupang Regency, to Gottlieb Fanggidaej and Magda Mael.[1] Her father worked as a head supervisor Burgerlijke Openbare Warken and was referred as "Black Netherlands" by the local.[1] She was raised in Indo cultural and was educated along with the white kids, and spoken Dutch language in her daily life.[1]

Fransisca was feel disturbed when she had to see people lower their heads and walk squatting when pay respect to her parents, she also encounters some racist for her family from the Dutch due to have a colored skin which then began to raised awareness of anti-colonialism in herself.[1]

She began to starred a discuss with Maluku youth in Surabaya, East Java, during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies which later made her contributed for Indonesian independence and later joined Pemuda Republik Indonesia.[1] In November 1945, she attended Kongres Pemuda Indonesia I in Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta, and later joined as a troupe in Battle of Surabaya.[1]

Fransisca joined Pemuda Sosialis Indonesia and formed the women section in Mojokerto, East Java.[1] After moved to Madiun, she became a radio announcer at Radio Gelora Pemoeda Indonesia under the supervision of Badan Kongres Pemuda Republik Indonesia.[1] She broadcast in English and Dutch language along with her colleague, Yetty Zein, and then branded as a rebel and extremist by the Dutch.[1]

In 1946, she was commissioned by Badan Kongres Pemuda Republik Indonesia to doing a youth revolution safari in a various country.[1] She traveled from India to Czechoslovakia with a brochures, photographs, and posters, to informed about Indonesia's struggle.[1] In 1948, she attended the Calcutta conference and later attended Bandung Conference in 1955.[1]

Fransisca was married to Supriyo, a journalist who was born in 1920, and has had seven children: Nilakandi Sri Luntowati, Dien Rieny Saraswati, Godam Ratamtama, Nusa Eka Indriya, Savitri Sasanti Rini, Pratiwi Widantini Matulessy, and Mayanti Trikarini.[2][3]

Her daughter, Pratiwi, was married to an Iran Muslim man, Rahim, and later gave birth to actor Reza Rahadian.[4]