Visakha Gunadharma

Njonja Tjoa Hin Hoei ( 1907–1990), who was born Kwee Yat Nio and was also known by the Buddhist name Visakha Gunadharma, was a Chinese Indonesian journalist, writer, Buddhist figure, and political activist during the late colonial and early independence periods. She was especially known for being publisher and editor of a women's magazine which ran from the 1930s to the early 1950s.

Biography She was born Kwee Yat Nio in 1906 or 1907 in Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies (today Bogor, Indonesia). She was the oldest child of Kwee Tek Hoay, was a multilingual Peranakan Chinese journalist, writer and translator. From 1932 to 1940 she was chair of the Chinese Women's Association in Batavia. The court eventually found the case inadmissible. The magazine ceased publication during the Japanese occupation and Indonesian National Revolution and restarted after independence. During this period she adopted the Indonesian or Buddhist name Visakha Gunadharma.

She died on 26 September 1990 (some sources incorrectly give the year as 1993). She left an autobiography which is as of yet unpublished.

Family Kwee and Tjoa had five children; daughters Lenny Tjoa Keng Yin, Effie Tjoa Keng Loan, Yenny Tjoa Keng Lan and sons Tjoa Keng Pen and Tjoa Keng Hok. Lenny and Effie were well known as classical musicians during the post-independence era.