Ang Jan Goan

Ang Jan Goan (, , 1894–1984) was an Indonesian Chinese journalist, publisher and political thinker, and director of the influential newspaper Sin Po from 1925 to 1959.

Biography

Early life

Ang was born on May 25, 1894, in Bandung, Dutch East Indies. His family traced their ancestry to Nan'an, Fujian and his parents, Hong Songmei and Chen Cui Niang, operated a grocery store. He had early education in the Malay language and Hokkien and then enrolled in a Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan school. After finishing at the THHK school he went to China to study at the JNXT (Jinan Xuetang), also known as Kay Lam Hak Tong, a school designed for Overseas Chinese in Nanjing. Upon his return to the Indies he became a teacher, first at Ciamis in 1912 and 1913, and then 1917 in Tasikmalaya.

In 1928, Ang printed what would become the national anthem of Indonesia, Indonesia Raya. He was not the first to do so, as it had been printed in another newspaper Soeloeh Ra'jat Indonesia a few days earlier.

In 1960 he founded the Surya Prabha publishing company which published Warta Bhakti, an influential left-wing daily in Jakarta which only lasted until 1965. However, this was also connected to Chinese nationalism as the committee was explicitly a Chinese-only committee, and the event that had spurred them to form the committee was the arrest and rough treatment of some Indies Chinese businessmen who had been attempting to run for electoral office in China.

During the early period of Indonesian independence, he was also elected president of the Hua-Chiao Chu-jin Hui, an organization aiming to normalize relations between Indonesia and China. and Chinese translations (1989). He died in Toronto in 1984.

Selected works

Akoe poenja pernikahan dengan seorang Tionghoa (1922), Malay language translation of My Chinese Marriage by Mae Franking, 1921. Diseblah dalemnja lajar malaise (1923 play, written pseudonymously as Hoay Tjiong ) Djangan sedih (1923 play, written pseudonymously as Hoay Tjiong ) Moesoenja orang banjak, (date unknown ) translation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People (1882).