[1][2] He was the founding editor of the publication Berita Indonesia ('Indonesian News'), the first republican newspaper in Batavia.
[1][3] Tahsin served as the editor-in-chief of Bintang Timur, the daily newspaper of the Indonesian Party (Partindo).
[9][10] The Indonesian government withdrew his citizenship soon after the coup, leaving him stranded in Beijing.
[3] In February 1970, Imris Idris was named as the new Indonesian ambassador to Mali to replace Tahsin.
[3][12] He taught the Indonesian language at the Volksuniversiteit and started a publishing house–bookstore, named Manus Amici, in Amsterdam in 1981.