Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië was a Dutch-language newspaper published on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia). Originally called De Indische Courant (one of a number of papers with that name), it was published in Batavia from 1895[1] or 1896 to 1900[2] until it was renamed.[3] One of the paper's contributors was Dutch author and critic of the colonial system Multatuli.[4]
The paper was known as conservative, and editorialized vehemently against the emancipation of the native people. Its editor in chief during the 1920s was K.W. Wybrands, who put such a personal stamp on the paper that it was also known as Wybrands' paper.[5] In 1938, Willem Belonje became the editor in chief of the paper; he had earlier run De Indische Courant, in the 1920s. The paper was closed in 1942 by the Japanese occupying forces.[1] In the early 1930s the paper had a circulation of six to nine thousand, but had dropped to between three and six thousand the next decade.[5]
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Footnotes[edit]
- ^ a b "Journalistiek in de tropen: Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië, 18 december 1939". Journalistiek in de Tropen (in Dutch). International Institute of Social History. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Maters 37-38.
- ^ Van der Veur 18.
- ^ a b Maters 38.
Bibliography[edit]
- 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.
External links[edit]
- Delpher: online access to newspaper archive incl. Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië