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Indonesia today can be proud because Google Doodle features a caricature of Marie Thomas who is the first Indonesian woman to become a doctor.
Marie Thomas is an Indonesian woman who can pursue medical education and graduate to become a doctor during the Dutch East Indies occupation, 1922.
The award was given by Google Doodle to commemorate the birth of Marie Thomas 125 years ago.
This is very proud of because to be able to appear as a Google Doodle icon is not easy.
Google Doodle is a Google icon on Google search pages that always displays a caricature image to commemorate or reward someone or an institution that is considered to have a social role in parts of the world.
Marie Thomas was born 125 years ago, to be precise on February 17, 1896, in Minahasa, North Sulawesi.
Marie Thomas was the first female graduate to get medical education during the Dutch East Indies era, Indonesia.
Marie Thomas graduated from the School tot Opleiding van Indische Artsen (STOVIA) which was a medical education school during the Dutch East Indies era.
Marie Thomas was the only female student currently undergoing codex education at that time, among 180 male students. However, Marie Thomas did not feel awkward or insecure.
She underwent a codex education confidently without caring about male students, who might have criticized her at the time or were now called a bully.
Marie Thomas graduated from medical school STOVIA in 1922.
The education that Marie Thomas can take cannot be separated from the role of Aletta Jacob, the first female doctor from the Netherlands.
With Marie Thomas, Indonesian women can pursue higher medical education because of Aletta Jacob's request to Governor-General A.W.F. Idenburg to provide an opportunity also for Indonesian women (bumiputra) to be allowed to register and obtain medical education at STOVIA.
This request was expressed by Aletta Jacob when visiting the occupied Dutch East Indies on April 18, 1912.
The feeling of pride is immeasurable when the whole world can find out the great woman from Indonesia.