Tan Hong Boen

[3] He didn't have much formal education, possibly enrolling in a European school for a few years; he wrote in Malay but was also literate in Javanese, Chinese, Dutch, and English.

[1] After that, he published in other literary journals including Liberty and Boelan Poernama (Full Moon), a magazine he founded and edited from 1929 onwards.

[3][7] He also published a three-volume who's-who of Chinese notables from Java in 1935, a work which contains some priceless information found nowhere else, but is also organized geographically and can be difficult to navigate.

[3] After World War II and Indonesian independence, he continued to publish in literary journals for a few more years; these included Tjilik Roman's, Goedang Tjerita and Tjantik.

[3] In the postwar era, he created a Jamu-inspired health product called Pil Kita (our pill); he claimed to have thought of the recipe while meditating.