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Sin Po (newspaper)
Sin Po (Chinese: 新報; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sin-pò; lit. '(The) News') was a Peranakan Chinese Malay-language newspaper published in the Dutch East Indies and later Indonesia. It expressed the viewpoint of Chinese nationalism and defended the interests of Chinese Indonesians and was for several decades one of the most widely read Malay newspapers in the Indies. It existed under various names until 1965.
The paper was founded in Batavia on 1 October 1910 after Lauw Giok Lan came up with the concept and approached Yoe Sin Gie. The two men had worked at Perniagaan, a conservative Chinese newspaper closely allied with the Chinese Officer system and the Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan. When Sin Po launched, Lauw took on the editorial duties and Yoe took on the administrative aspects, with Hauw Tek Kong as director. At first it was only a weekly paper. The paper quickly became very successful.
Lauw was an experienced publisher who had worked for the Van Dorp Co., which had published Java Bode and Bintang Betawi. He had been editor of Perniagaan since 1907.
In 1912, when Sin Po became a daily paper, it hired a European (Indo) editor-in-chief, J. R. Razoux Kühr. The higher legal status of Europeans made this standard practice in Malay newspapers of the time because legal punishments for contravening press laws would fall less harshly upon them. Razoux Kühr was a strange figure, a disgraced former civil servant who had written an English-language booklet denouncing the Dutch system of laws. However, he had good relations with the Peranakan Chinese community and was an excellent writer who spoke several languages.
By late 1912 he had already been called before the court for printing defamatory content in Sin Po. The article in question had described the murder of a Chinese person in Sukabumi, and by its factual description was said to stir up hatred against the Indies government.
In early 1913, Sin Po got into a feud with some more conservative elements of the Chinese community due to its criticism of the colonial Chinese Officer system. That feud resulted in calls to boycott Sin Po. In particular the paper harshly attacked Phoa Keng Hek and Khouw Kim An, high-profile Chinese Officers, and accused them of corruption and abuse of authority. One Sin Po editor was forced to resign from the board of the Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan and was then expelled as a member of the organization.
By 1915, rival newspaper Perniagaan was waging their war against Sin Po on a new front. They accused the paper, under Razoux Kühr's tenure, of accepting payment for its reporters to travel. One case that they printed proof of was a receipt for payment of a Sin Po journalist to Garut where they were hosted by the local Chinese community and directed to investigate a district head who had been mistreating them. Since Razoux Kühr was already a pariah in the European community at this point, it only added to their suspicions that he was an unscrupulous figure.
In March 1916 Razoux Kühr stepped down as editor, ostensibly for health reasons, and the paper got its first Chinese editor, Kwee Hing Tjiat. Although Razoux Kühr was announced as editor in chief of Sin Po's rival paper, Perniagaan in 1918, it was apparently short-lived, and he never again held a prominent editorial job.
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Sin Po (newspaper)
Sin Po (Chinese: 新報; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sin-pò; lit. '(The) News') was a Peranakan Chinese Malay-language newspaper published in the Dutch East Indies and later Indonesia. It expressed the viewpoint of Chinese nationalism and defended the interests of Chinese Indonesians and was for several decades one of the most widely read Malay newspapers in the Indies. It existed under various names until 1965.
The paper was founded in Batavia on 1 October 1910 after Lauw Giok Lan came up with the concept and approached Yoe Sin Gie. The two men had worked at Perniagaan, a conservative Chinese newspaper closely allied with the Chinese Officer system and the Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan. When Sin Po launched, Lauw took on the editorial duties and Yoe took on the administrative aspects, with Hauw Tek Kong as director. At first it was only a weekly paper. The paper quickly became very successful.
Lauw was an experienced publisher who had worked for the Van Dorp Co., which had published Java Bode and Bintang Betawi. He had been editor of Perniagaan since 1907.
In 1912, when Sin Po became a daily paper, it hired a European (Indo) editor-in-chief, J. R. Razoux Kühr. The higher legal status of Europeans made this standard practice in Malay newspapers of the time because legal punishments for contravening press laws would fall less harshly upon them. Razoux Kühr was a strange figure, a disgraced former civil servant who had written an English-language booklet denouncing the Dutch system of laws. However, he had good relations with the Peranakan Chinese community and was an excellent writer who spoke several languages.
By late 1912 he had already been called before the court for printing defamatory content in Sin Po. The article in question had described the murder of a Chinese person in Sukabumi, and by its factual description was said to stir up hatred against the Indies government.
In early 1913, Sin Po got into a feud with some more conservative elements of the Chinese community due to its criticism of the colonial Chinese Officer system. That feud resulted in calls to boycott Sin Po. In particular the paper harshly attacked Phoa Keng Hek and Khouw Kim An, high-profile Chinese Officers, and accused them of corruption and abuse of authority. One Sin Po editor was forced to resign from the board of the Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan and was then expelled as a member of the organization.
By 1915, rival newspaper Perniagaan was waging their war against Sin Po on a new front. They accused the paper, under Razoux Kühr's tenure, of accepting payment for its reporters to travel. One case that they printed proof of was a receipt for payment of a Sin Po journalist to Garut where they were hosted by the local Chinese community and directed to investigate a district head who had been mistreating them. Since Razoux Kühr was already a pariah in the European community at this point, it only added to their suspicions that he was an unscrupulous figure.
In March 1916 Razoux Kühr stepped down as editor, ostensibly for health reasons, and the paper got its first Chinese editor, Kwee Hing Tjiat. Although Razoux Kühr was announced as editor in chief of Sin Po's rival paper, Perniagaan in 1918, it was apparently short-lived, and he never again held a prominent editorial job.