Mia Bustam
Mia Bustam was born on June 4, 1920. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Mia Bustam
Mia Bustam (4 June 1920 – 2 January 2011) was an Indonesian painter, activist, and memoirist. The daughter of a minor nobleman, Mia was educated to be a kindergarten teacher but left school after her father lost his job. In 1943, she met and married the painter S. Sudjojono, with whom she had eight children. After the couple divorced in 1959, Mia took up painting, joining the Young Artists of Indonesia as well as the communist-aligned Institute for People's Culture. Her works were well received, with her style likened to that of her former husband. During the tumultuous period that followed the 30 September Movement coup, which was blamed on the Communist Party of Indonesia, Mia was arrested and held without trial. Over the course of thirteen years, she was detained at a series of prisons where she faced psychological abuse. After her release in 1978, she sought to restore the reputations of herself and other former detainees. She published four memoirs, including two posthumously. Most of her paintings are lost, and in the Indonesian art canon she is recalled primarily as Sudjojono's first wife.