Siem Piet Nio

1907, d. 1986), who wrote under the pen name Hong Le Hoa, was an Indonesian language writer, magazine editor, journalist and women's rights advocate from the Dutch East Indies who was active during the 1920s and 1930s.

[1][2][3][4] Siem Piet Nio was born to a Peranakan Chinese family in Purbalingga, Central Java, Dutch East Indies in 1907.

[2][1][6] In August 1928 she became editor-in-chief of the Indonesian-language magazine Soeara Persatoean Kaoem Prempoean Tionghoa Indonesia (Voice of the federation of Indonesian Chinese women) which was published in Sukabumi.

[4] The magazine was the mouthpiece of that Federation, which had seven member organizations run by Peranakan women from various places in Java and had been created partly as a result of her own advocacy.

[4][5] World War II and the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies was difficult for her, as for most Chinese Indonesians; she even lost her collection of her former publications during that time.