Tjahaja Timoer
Tjahaja Timoer (Indonesian: Light of the East, EYD: Cahaya Timur) was a Malay-language Peranakan newspaper printed in Malang, Dutch East Indies, from 1907 to 1942.

History
 was founded in January 1907 in Malang, at around the same time as its more famous counterpart Medan Prijaji, with funding from a Peranakan Chinese firm, , or  as it was called in the pages of the newspaper. In its early years it was a supporter of Theosophy, then popular among elites in the Indies.

Despite its Chinese ownership, by the 1910s the paper was noted to be very sympathetic to the Indische Party. Before long it was also expressing sympathy for the Sarekat Islam, an anti-colonial mass organisation. This was due to the influence of its editor, Raden Djojosoediro, who supported both movements. By 1914, while still editor of the paper, Djojosoerdiro even joined the central committee of the .

In 1916 W.A. Kailola, former editor of Perniagaan, a conservative Chinese newspaper from Batavia, became the editor of .

In 1922 the owners of  entered into a business deal with the Soerabaijasch Handelsblad to allow their printing presses to be used to print a new Dutch language newspaper in Malang, , with journalist Brunsveldt van Hulten as its new editor. This was apparently done in a move against Jahn's Advertentieblad, a newspaper which had a monopoly in the city. Not long after it began to be printed, this new paper (the ) started to circulate (via the national wire service ANETA) allegations against a former editor of . It alleged that this former editor, Andanjomo, in collaboration with Sarekat Islam leader Mohamed Joenoes, was terrorizing the populace of Malang and forcing native servants into a clandestine organization called  (Indonesian: Resistance Union). It is unclear whether this allegation was factual because this organization was not mentioned subsequently.

 continued to publish in Malang until the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in 1942.

External links
 WorldCat holdings for Tjahaja Timoer
 Digitized issues of Tjahaja Timoer (1914-42) in the Center for Research Libraries collection

References

Defunct newspapers published in Indonesia
Malang
1907 establishments in the Dutch East Indies
1942 disestablishments in the Dutch East Indies
Malay-language newspapers published in the Dutch East Indies