The article I wrote today for #Wikipedia Asian Month is closely related to my previous article. This magazine, Tjerita Roman, was another Malay-language literary monthly founded in Surabaya in 1929. It was part of the golden age of Peranakan Chinese literary output in the late colonial Dutch East Indies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjerita_Roman

#Sejarah #Indonesia #HindiaBelanda #Peranakan

@m_rhett One I came across in my research years ago is this historical political cartoon from 1919 from a Dutch East Indies communist newspaper called Islam Bergerak (Islam in motion) from Surakarta, Java. Political cartoons were quite rare in the Malay radical press at that time and I think this one earned the editor a prison term from the Dutch authorities. The text right under translates to "BEWARE! Once my nail, now my anchor! Once my master, now clearly my enemy!"
#sejarah #Indonesia

My latest bio for Wikipedia Asian Month, Mahjoeddin Datoek Soetan Maharadja (c.1860-1921) considered one of the fathers of Indonesian journalism but also complicated figure whose rigid views made him many enemies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahyuddin_Datuk_Sutan_Maharadja

He came from an aristocratic Minangkabau family who were very loyal to the Dutch and worked as a government prosecutor before entering journalism. He fell out of step with both Indonesian National Awakening and Islamic modernism in 1910s. #sejarah #wikipedia