Evert Jansen was a newspaper editor, journalist and politician from the Dutch East Indies.
After finishing his studies in a Hogere Burgerschool in the Netherlands in the early 1910s, he was sent by the PTT (Staatsbedrijf der Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie, the state-owned company for post, telegraphs and telephones) to study further in Cologne, Germany.
[1] He then left Surabaya for Semarang, taking up a position at De Locomotief, where he remained as an editor until 1925.
[6] In July 1929, he was charged with a Persdelict (press offense)--he was held responsible, as editor, for printing an article that insulted the good name of Mr. Minderman, the fired head of a local school, who was accused of forgery and misappropriation of school funds.
[8] In late 1929 Jansen stepped down as editor of the Algemeen Handelsblad and left Semarang to become editor of at least two Dutch-language newspapers in East Java, De Malanger in Malang[9] and De Indische Courant in Surabaya.