Djawa Tengah

Djawa Tengah was a major Malay language peranakan Chinese (Chinese Indonesian) daily newspaper in Semarang from 1909 to 1938. In the 1930s the paper also put out a monthly magazine called Djawa Tengah Review.

Not to be confused with the Indonesian province of Jawa Tengah (Central Java).
Front page of Djawa Tengah from March 29, 1919

Its editorial line was moderately Chinese nationalist and critical of the Dutch Chinese Officer system.[1] According to historian Leo Suryadinata, by the late 1920s the paper shifted its political line and became more Indies-oriented.[2]

During the 1930s the journalist and historian Liem Thian Joe joined the editorial staff of the paper and published a serialized version of his history of Semarang, Riwajat Semarang 1416–1931 in Djawa Tengah Review between March 1931 and July 1933.[3]

References
  1. Claver, Alexander. Dutch commerce and Chinese merchants in Java: colonial relationships in trade and finance, 1800–1942, p.197. Brill, 2014.
  2. Leo Suryadinata. Peranakan Chinese Politics in Java, 1917–1942. Singapore University Press, 1981.
  3. Suryadinata, Leo, ed. Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume I & II. Vol. 1. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012, p.581.
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