De Preangerbode

After 1923 it was renamed Algemeen Indisch Dagblad de Preangerbode (Dutch: Indies-wide Daily Paper, The Parahyangan messenger).

[4] After retiring from the Preangerbode van Schaik returned to the Netherlands and became head editor of Leeuwarder Courant and later of the Deventer Dagblad.

As with most Dutch newspapers, the Preangerbode was extremely hostile to these movements and Stufkens dedicated himself to slandering them, even published a pseudonymous novel called Meta Mormel.

[5] It was around this time that the Indonesian nationalist figure Abdul Muis worked as a proofreader for the paper, before moving onto a more important role in the Malay language press of the Indies.

He resigned in 1956 after a disagreement with the management, but he stayed in Indonesia working De Volkskrant and other newspapers until finally returning to the Netherlands in 1958.

[11] De Preangerbode closed along with all other Dutch-language press in Indonesia as a result of the 1 December 1957 regulation which prohibited them as a punishment for the Dutch position in the West New Guinea dispute.

Currently the Indonesian newspaper Pikiran Rakyat occupies the former building of the Preangerbode on the Grote Postweg in Bandung, which is now called Jalan Asia-Afrika.