Myra Sidharta

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Myra Sidharta (born Ew Yong Tjhoen Moy 歐陽春梅 / 欧阳春梅) was born in Belitung in 1927. She is an expert in Tionghoa Malay literature, a psychologist and a columnist for Indonesian magazines including The Jakarta Post.

She has an autobiography titled In Search of My Ancestral Home

Myra is married to Dr. Priguna Sidharta (Si Pek Giok) and has 3 children, Sylvia, Julie and Amir Sidharta, who works as a curator.

[edit] Education

Myra, like many other Indonesian Chinese of her era, was educated in a Dutch school. Her grandfather, an immigrant from Meixian province, Guangdong, China, was afraid that his grandchildren would lose their identity as Chinese. Therefore he encouraged Myra to learn Mandarin. Fortunately for Myra, there was a female Mandarin teacher staying in her grandparents' house who could teach her.

She obtained a bachelor degree majoring in psychology from Rijks Universitet Leiden, Netherland.

She speaks German, Dutch, French, Mandarin, Hokkian, Malay, Indonesian and English.

[edit] External links

• (Indonesian) Dokumentasi Sastra Melayu Tionghoa
• (English) In Collapsing Economy, Local Chinese Scapegoated