Saadah Alim

[1] She was one of only a handful of Indonesian women authors to be published during the colonial period, alongside Fatimah Hasan Delais, Sariamin Ismail, Soewarsih Djojopoespito and a few others.

[1] According to a retrospective she wrote in the 1930s, the magazine was initially met with strong hostility by conservative elements in Minangkabau society, although she admitted that attitudes towards women and girls' education did shift in the years since.

[9] Even Mahyuddin Datuk Sutan Maharadja, a pioneering Malay language journalist who himself published a newspaper aimed at women (Soenting Melajoe) was a vocal critic of Soeara Perempoean.

[12] She also became editor of Krekots Magazine in 1930, a position she would hold until the end of Dutch rule in 1943, and which eventually became a supplement to the aforementioned Bintang Timur.

[13][1] In 1939 she also became an assistant editor at Andjar Asmara's weekly magazine Pustaka Timur and at Het Dagblad Volks Editie, a paper put out by Java Bode in 1940.

[21][22] The company had apparently bought rights to it from a third party who did not have any authority to sell it on her behalf, under a different title Roman Lajar Putih, and the matter was complicated by the fact that the film production occurred during the period where the Netherlands was withdrawing from Indonesia.