Twentieth-century Malay and Javanese-language poet who published Nyanyi Sunyi, Buah Rindu, and other volumes of verse. He was also the co-founder of a literary publication entitled Poedjangga Baroe. He became involved in a nationalist political movement during his high school years in Surakarta. During this period, he also fell in love with Ilik Sundari, who would become his poetic muse.
