Injo Beng Goat

Injo Beng Goat (, 1902 - 1962) was a Chinese Indonesian journalist, lawyer, and political activist of the late Dutch East Indies and early independence era in Indonesia. He was editor-in-chief of Keng Po, one of the largest newspapers of the early independence period, until 1958.

Biography Injo Beng Goat was born in 1904, likely in Bengkulu, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.

He studied law at the in Batavia. He became an editor at Keng Po in 1934; at some point he was promoted to editor-in-chief, although it is not clear when. Almost immediately Injo was brought before the court once again for an insulting article he printed about Adolf Hitler, calling him a fool who had been unpopular in school, bad with women, constantly having suicidal thoughts, an illegitimate child, and so on. When brought before a magistrate in Batavia, Injo was unrepentant and did not think he had done anything wrong, but merely described Hitler accurately.

Like a growing minority of Chinese Indonesian intellectuals which included Kwee Hing Tjiat and Soe Hok Gie, Injo was increasingly sympathetic to Indonesian nationalism during the late colonial era, rather than being a Chinese nationalist focused more narrowly on overseas Chinese issues. Injo was imprisoned by the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and Keng Po was shut down along with most other independent press. Injo was arrested in May 1943 and sent to Serang in Banten and then to Cimahi. During this time, in 1946-7, he worked for a Dutch-language republican magazine called (the insight) which was edited by Soedjatmoko. However, this federation did not last long as tension between Communists and non-Communists, and the relative exclusion of non-Chinese members, made it gradually become irrelevant. He had reported on a statement by then-Prime Minister Djuanda Kartawidjaja about Lt. Col. Ventje Sumual's dismissal which was later denied by the Information Ministry. Hence it was not so much a matter of printing falsehoods as having repeated something from a non-official military source. Journalists Dick Joseph of Marinjo and Mochtar Lubis were arrested on similar charges. After spending some weeks in military custody, Injo was released under city arrest in Jakarta; he stepped down as editor-in-chief at Keng Po in 1958, finding the position of the paper untenable in the new political situation. That same year, under the new anti-Chinese policies Keng Po changed its name to Pos Indonesia (Indonesia Post); it ceased publication in the 1960s.

In March 1960 Injo, along with a group of ten Peranakan intellectuals which included Ojong, Ong Hok Ham and Tjung Tin Jan published a manifesto in Star Weekly entitled "Towards voluntary assimilation" which opposed the politics of integration advanced by Siauw Giok Tjhan and others and suggested a policy of gradual and consensual assimilation into Indonesian society as a solution to ethnic conflict.

Injo died in Jakarta on 1 November 1962.