Keng Po (newspaper)
Keng Po () was a Malay language Peranakan Chinese newspaper published in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (later Jakarta) from 1923 to 1958. During most of that time it was the second-most popular Malay-language Chinese newspaper in the Indies after Sin Po. It was also an important paper in the early period of Indonesian independence in the 1950s. History Dutch East Indies ''Keng Po'' was founded in Batavia, Dutch East Indies in 1923 by Hauw Tek Kong, an English-educated journalist and Chinese activist who had been director of the competing paper Sin Po in the 1910s, and had been banned from the Indies from 1919 until 1922 for his anti-Dutch views. Hauw apparently founded the paper in the midst of disagreement with Tjoe Bou San of ''Sin Po''. Upon founding the paper he appointed himself director and editor-in-chief. Khoe Woen Sioe, who would be director of the paper in later years, joined as an editor at some point in the early years. In 1925 Khoe was arrested in a high-profile Persd ...
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Malay Language
Malay (; ms, Bahasa Melayu, links=no, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , Rejang script, Rencong: ) is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of the Philippines and Thailand. Altogether, it is spoken by 290 million people (around 260 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard named "Indonesian language, Indonesian") across Maritime Southeast Asia. As the or ("national language") of several states, Standard Malay has various official names. In Malaysia, it is designated as either ("Malaysian Malay") or also ("Malay language"). In Singapore and Brunei, it is called ("Malay language"). In Indonesia, an autonomous normative variety called ("Indonesian language") is designated the ("unifying language" or lingua franca). However, in areas of Central to Southern Sumatra, where vernacular varieties of Malay are indigenous, Indonesians refe ...
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Warna Warta (newspaper)
''Warna Warta'' (Malay: "various news", literally "colour news", known in Chinese as 综合新闻 Zònghé xīnwén, "general news") was a Malay language Peranakan Chinese newspaper published in Semarang, Dutch East Indies from 1902 to 1933. Alongside its more popular rival Djawa Tengah, it was highly influential among the Chinese Indonesian population of Semarang during this time. History ''Warna Warta'' was founded in February 1902 with V.W. Doppert as its first editor and with Kwa Wan Hong as its director and administrator. The novelist F. D. J. Pangemanann was also an editor in its early years. Its managing company was called the ''N. V. Drukkerij en Handel in schrijfbehoeften'', or in Chinese ''Hap Sing Kongsie''. In its early years the paper billed itself as the mouthpiece of the Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan, a diasporic Chinese education movement. Within a year, the paper was already suffering from the legal troubles that it would face during the coming decades. In 1903 one of the ...
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Defunct Overseas Chinese Newspapers
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1958 Disestablishments In Indonesia
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