Ang Jan Goan

His family traced their ancestry to Nan'an, Fujian and his parents, Hong Songmei and Chen Cui Niang, operated a grocery store.

[1] He also met Kwee Tek Hoay who urged him to relocate to Bogor to help in reorganizing the Hak Bu Tjong Hwee (General Office for Chinese Education Matters), a project in which he was unfortunately unsuccessful.

Kwee Kek Beng became editor in chief while Ang was promoted to be director of the newspaper, a position he stayed in until the end of the publication in 1959, with the exception of the period of Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies during the Second World War.

They had printed a critical article about a Dutch policeman who had accidentally shot and killed an Indonesian hawker while shooting at a stray dog.

They appealed the charges and it was overturned by a higher court (the Raad van Justitie), with Kwee Kek Beng having to pay a 500 guilder fine.

[6] During the early period of Indonesian independence, he was also elected president of the Hua-Chiao Chu-jin Hui, an organization aiming to normalize relations between Indonesia and China.

[1] After Indonesia did normalize its relationship with Beijing in 1950 the organization was renamed Chung-Hua Chiao-Tuan Tsung-Hui or "federation of Chinese associations", and Ang remained its president for another four years.

[1] During the 1965-66 Transition to the New Order in Indonesia, Ang's newspaper Warta Bhakti was shut down by the government and many of its editors and journalists were arrested without trial.