De Locomotief

De Locomotief was the first newspaper published in Semarang, in the era of Dutch East Indies.

The paper was closed during the second world war but in 1947 the daily De Locomotief was re-opened again.

[1] The Dutch language newspaper was cited outside of Indonesia in the 1950s as a source of information about Indonesian War of Independence issues.

[2] In 1956, the newspaper was closed and the building was taken over by the Bumi Daya Bank after the renovation.

[3][4] The material in the newspaper has been used to review events that occurred during the era of the Netherlands East Indies.