H. Phoa Sr., was a Chinese Indonesian, Malay language journalist, translator and newspaper editor active in the Dutch East Indies in the early twentieth century.
Early in his tenure there he was called to court over a Persdelict (press offense) charge for having printed something considered slanderous of Oei Moh Sing, a local Chinese notable.
[10] After that, he launched yet another paper in Semarang called Bintang Pagi (Early morning)[11] Phoa's ideas were fairly conservative; he supported Sun Yat-sen and published materials opposing the Sarekat Islam, the mass anti-colonial movement in Java.
He printed materials condemning the Qing dynasty in Dutch newspapers at around this time and lamenting the situation of overseas Chinese citizens who were subjects of such a despotic regime.
[1] Between 1916 and 1918, he was editor-in-chief of Sinar Sumatra, a newspaper in Padang; he may have acted in that role while still living in Java, which was common enough at that time, since he was still working for Warna Warta.