Tjahaja Timoer

Tjahaja Timoer was founded in January 1907 in Malang, at around the same time as its more famous counterpart Medan Prijaji, with funding from a Peranakan Chinese firm, Sneepers dan Stendrukkkerij Kwee, or Kwee Khaij Khee as it was called in the pages of the newspaper.

[5] In 1922 the owners of Tjahaja Timoer entered into a business deal with the Soerabaijasch Handelsblad to allow their printing presses to be used to print a new Dutch language newspaper in Malang, De Oosthoekbode, with journalist Brunsveldt van Hulten as its new editor.

Not long after it began to be printed, this new paper (the Oosthoekbode) started to circulate (via the national wire service ANETA) allegations against a former editor of Tjahaja Timoer.

It alleged that this former editor, Andanjomo, in collaboration with Sarekat Islam leader Mohamed Joenoes, was terrorizing the populace of Malang and forcing native servants into a clandestine organization called Sarikat Brontak (Indonesian: Resistance Union).

Tjahaja Timoer continued to publish in Malang until the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in 1942.