Njonja Tjoa Hin Hoei

Njonja Tjoa Hin Hoei (c. 1907–1990), who was born Kwee Yat Nio (Chinese: 郭悅娘) and was also known by the Buddhist name Visakha Gunadharma, was a Chinese Indonesian journalist, writer, Buddhist figure, and political activist during the late colonial and early independence periods.

[5] She was born Kwee Yat Nio in 1906 or 1907 in Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies (today Bogor, Indonesia).

[1][2][6] Even while she was still a student her father encouraged her to read and write and to translate English-language news from foreign sources for Malay-language newspapers such as Sin Po.

[1] In the early 1920s she founded a women's organization named Chie Mey Hui (sisters' association); its goal was to unite unmarried Peranakan girls and promote their education and development.

[5][4] Tjoa's editorial line was not always a radical one; she believed that women should be modest and follow traditional Chinese values, and that education was useful to create ideal wives and daughters.

[1] Another reason for its longevity is that the magazine had the support of the mainstream Peranakan community in Batavia, including the THHK and Chung Hwa Hui.

[9] In 1940 Tjoa had legal difficulties as editor of the magazine when it was deemed to have printed defamatory material under the Indies' strict censorship laws.