Sugiarti (later Sugiarti Siswati) (died May 1987) was an Indonesian writer from Klaten who came of age during the Indonesian Revolution. In 1947 she was a prizewinner in a competition organized by the IPPHOS (see Alex Mendur) for short stories about the war of independence. According to Harian Rakjat, she was a graduate of the Ali Archam Academy (closed 1964). Adding her husband's name to her own, Sugiarti Siswati became an influential member of the PKI-sponsored Lekra, which published her short story collection Sorga Di Bumi (1960), and by 1962 was co-editor of Api Kartini ("Flame of Kartini"), a journal of the Indonesian Women's Movement.[1]
She was arrested following 1965's 30 September putsch and survived the ensuing massacres but disappeared from public life. In 1986 she showed several unfinished stories dealing with this period to .[2] Recent interest in her work has centered on her contributions to feminism.[3]