Kwee Kek Beng

Kwee Kek Beng (, 1900–1975) was a Chinese Indonesian journalist and writer, best known for being editor-in-chief of the popular Malay language newspaper Sin Po from 1925 to 1947.

Biography Early life Kwee was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies on November 16, 1900. He received a Dutch language education at the in Batavia. Around 1915-17 he attended the (MULO) in Batavia and then a teacher training institute .

Journalism career While still working as a teacher in 1922, Kwee contributed writings to the Dutch-language . Impressed by his writings, Na Tjin Hoe, an editor at invited Kwee to work at the short-lived , a spinoff newspaper of focusing on local news. Even this junior position at the newspaper gave him almost double the salary he had been making as a teacher. He soon transferred to the editorial board of itself.

In 1929 he travelled outside of the Indies for the first time in his life, touring the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, following a few years later with his first trip to China in 1933. Their second son Kwee Hin Houw, born in 1938, became a journalist and lived in Germany from the 1960s until his death in 2016.

Selected writings (A brief overview of Chinese history) (in Dutch, Batavia, 1925) (in Dutch, Batavia, 1927); (Twenty-five years as a journalist) (in Indonesian, Jakarta, 1948) (To a new China)(in Indonesian, Jakarta, 1952) (Around Stalin) (in Indonesian, Jakarta, 1953) (Who's who in New China) (in Indonesian, Jakarta, 1953) (Freed China) (1954) (in Indonesian, 1954) (in Indonesian, Jakarta, 1955) (50,000 kilometres in 100 days) (in Indonesian, Jakarta, 1965)