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She is now retired after a long career since 1958 as professor at the English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, University of Indonesia and as founder of the American Studies Center of the University of Indonesia which was established in 1985.
Ms. Alisjahbana is the co-founder of the American Indonesian Education Foundation (AMINEF) that handles the selection for the Fulbright scholarships in Indonesia. As one of the founders of the WWF Indonesia, she is an active board member. She is also active in promoting the arts as member of the Jakarta Foundation for the Arts and she is also a board member of the Indonesian Society for the Performing Arts.
Together with her husband, Sofjan Alisjahbana and his younger sister, Ms. Alisjahbana established the FEMINA group of magazines that started with an Indonesian women's magazine called FEMINA. In 1973 she started the first Indonesian teen-age girls' magazine called GADIS (which means young girl), which is until now still read by Indonesian teenagers. The group now has eleven magazines.
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