Kwee Kek Beng
Kwee Kek Beng ( zh, 郭克明, 1900–1975) was a Chinese Indonesian journalist and writer, best known for being editor-in-chief of the popular Malay language newspaper ''Sin Po (newspaper), Sin Po'' from 1925 to 1947. Biography Early life Kwee was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies on November 16, 1900. He received a Dutch language education at the in Batavia. Around 1915-17 he attended the (Meer Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs, MULO) in Batavia and then a teacher training institute (). In 1922 he started working as a schoolteacher in Bogor, not far from Batavia. Journalism career While still working as a teacher in 1922, Kwee contributed writings to the Dutch-language . Impressed by his writings, Na Tjin Hoe, an editor at invited Kwee to work at the short-lived , a spinoff newspaper of focusing on local news. Even this junior position at the newspaper gave him almost double the salary he had been making as a teacher. He soon transferred to the editorial board of itself. When fo ...
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Chinese Indonesian
Chinese Indonesians ( id, Orang Tionghoa Indonesia) and colloquially Chindo or just Tionghoa are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries. Chinese people and their Indonesian descendants have lived in the Indonesian archipelago since at least the 13th century. Many came initially as sojourners (temporary residents), intending to return home in their old age. Some, however, stayed in the region as economic migrants. Their population grew rapidly during the colonial period when workers were contracted from their home provinces in Southern China. Discrimination against Chinese Indonesians has occurred since the start of Dutch colonialism in the region, although government policies implemented since 1998 have attempted to redress this. Resentment of ethnic Chinese economic aptitude grew in the 1950s as Native Indonesian merchants felt they could not remain competitive. In some cases, government action propagated the stereotype that ...
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