Selompret Melajoe

[1] Many of its readers in the early years were Peranakan Chinese and Priyayi, although its editors were Europeans and Indos.

[3] In its early years it was quite careful to focus mainly on business and civil service topics, since coverage of politics could cause the Dutch to close down the paper.

[4] Due to those strict laws, the owners kept the identity of the editors secret, and the publisher took legal responsibility for any infractions.

[4] In 1871 the paper's editor, along with that of the Samarangsche Courant and a writer at De Locomotief, were charged with press offenses in district court for slandering the name of the village head (Lurah) of Jatingaleh, a village not far from Semarang.

[9] In 1883 Lucardie was charged under the strict press regulations by the Raad van Justitie for his coverage of a court case involving the District Chief (Wedana) of Ambarawa and some village heads (Lurah).

[16] As his health failed, the elder Halkema stepped down from his editorial position in late 1903 and was temporarily replaced by his son until D. Appel, an employee of the Van Dorp Co. who had edited the paper decades earlier, was appointed.

The paper apparently employed its first Javanese editor during this time, Mas Soekardjo, who also edited the Poro Tjitno and was involved in the Sarekat Islam movement in the mid-1910s.