Siti Chamamah Soeratno (24 January 1941 – 7 July 2026) was an Indonesian Islamic scholar who was the leader of Aisyiyah, Indonesia's first all-female Muslim organisation. She was also the dean of Muhammadiyah University of Malang and an expert on Indonesian literature.Greg Barton, Paul Weller, and Ihsan Yilmaz, The Muslim World and Politics in Transition: Creative Contributions of the Gülen Movement, pg. 173. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. She served as a faculty member at Leiden University, Mercu Buana University, Sebelas Maret University and Yogyakarta State University among others.Chamamah Soeratno: Brilliant and Persistent Fighting Against Stagnancy. Copyright © 2016 Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, 7 December 2014. Accessed 14 December 2016.
Life and career Soeratno was born on 24 January 1941. Her involvement with Islamic organizations began early in her life. She attended a Muhammadiyah high school and became the chairwoman of Aisyiyah's youth wing in 1965. She is a proponent of the Islamization of knowledge, promoting the view that the adjective "Islamic" should refer more than to strictly religious practices and should include all aspects of life and referring to democracy, equality, justice and the human norms of liberty as "Islamic values."Diah Ariani Arimbi, Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers: Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction, pg. 55. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009.
Soeratno died at UGM Academic Hospital in Jakarta, on 7 July 2026, at the age of 85. She was buried at Karangkajen Public Cemetery on 8 July.
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