Pouw Kioe An

Pouw Kioe An (, 1906–1981, known later in life by the Indonesian name Sastradjaja) was a Peranakan Chinese journalist, novelist, newspaper editor and translator from the Dutch East Indies who was active from the 1920s to the 1950s. He worked for most of the main Chinese Indonesian newspapers in Java during that time and published original novels and translations prolifically.

Biography Pouw Kioe An was born in Cianjur, West Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 3 January 1906. He was educated at a Dutch-language Europeesche Lagere School in Cianjur. It depicted a young Chinese boy who was torn between the love of a Dutch girl and a Chinese girl.

In 1934 he relocated to Tasikmalaya in West Java where he cofounded a weekly called .

In 1936 he became editor-in-chief of (voice of Semarang), as well as editor at a new daily (our voice), at Djawa Tengah ('Central Java', the biggest Chinese newspaper in Semarang) and a writer for Mata Hari (sun). His tenure at was quite short; he was only there for three months. After the Japanese departure, in 1946, he founded a short-lived weekly magazine called . During this period some of his plays were again performed as radio plays on the newly founded Radio Republik Indonesia, on the stage in Malang. In 1950 he launched another digest magazine called Amica and was also on the editorial board of a Jakarta-based magazined called Sedar. He spent his old age in Malang where he continued to write for Liberty, especially on the topics of religion and astrology.

He died on 25 March 1981.