De Indische Courant
De Indische Courant was the name of a number of Dutch language newspapers published on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia).
Early newspapers
The first paper under this name was published in 1870 (in the classification of the International Institute of Social History, De Indische Courant I), in Batavia.[1] A newspaper of the same name was published in Batavia from 1896 to 1900 (De Indische Courant II);[1] this paper, one of whose contributors was Dutch author and critic of the colonial system Multatuli,[2] was continued as the Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië.[3] The most important paper published as De Indische Courant ran from 1921 to 1942: an East-Java edition was published in Surabaya (Indische Courant III, 1921–1942), and a West-Java edition, published in Weltevreden, ran from 1922 to 1939 (Indische Courant IV). The last paper under this name ran from 1949 to 1952 (Indische Courant V), again from Batavia.[1]
De Indische Courant (1921–1942)
In 1921 the
Like other Dutch newspapers in the colonies, its function was to amuse rather than opine, and its content consisted for a large part of gossip, rumor, and sensationalist news items (sometimes bordering on libel). Critique of the Dutch government was rarely printed.[7] While the paper leaned social-democratic in the 1920s, under pressure from union members editor in chief Koch was replaced by Willem Belonje and became much more conservative.[8] Economist J. C. van Leur published a number of articles on financial and economical policies in the 1930s, strongly supportive of economic intervention by the colonial government.[9] By 1938 De Indische Courant (then published from Surabaya) tied The Java-Bode (published in Batavia) for the largest circulation in the colonies, 7000 copies.[7]
References
Footnotes
- ^ a b c "Indische Pers". Journalistiek in de Tropen (in Dutch). International Institute of Social History. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ^ Van der Veur 18.
- ^ Maters 37-38.
- ^ Ingleson 69.
- ^ Maters 143–45.
- ^ Maters 214.
- ^ a b Witte 17.
- ^ Vogel 190.
- ^ Vogel 193.
Bibliography
- Ingleson, John (2014). Workers, Unions and Politics: Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s. Brill. ISBN 9789004264762.
- Maters, Mirjam (1998). Van zachte wenk tot harde hand: persvrijheid en persbreidel in Nederlands-Indië, 1906-1942 (in Dutch). Uitgeverij Verloren. ISBN 9789065505965.
- Veur, Paul W. Van der (2006). The lion and the gadfly: Dutch colonialism and the spirit of E.F.E. Douwes Dekker. KITLV Press. ISBN 9789067182423.
- Vogel, Jaap (1992). De opkomst van het Indocentrische geschiedbeeld: leven en werken van B.J.O. Schrieke en J.C. van Leur (in Dutch). Uitgeverij Verloren. ISBN 9789065504067.
- Witte, René (1998). De Indische radio-omroep: overheidsbeleid en ontwikkeling, 1923-1942 (in Dutch). Uitgeverij Verloren. ISBN 9789065505903.
External links
- Delpher Archived 2014-03-09 at the Wayback Machine: online access to newspaper archive incl. De Indische Courant