Early years Antara (news agency)

an antara reporter uses wireless telegraphy broadcast dispatch, c. 1948.

the agency s leadership later reorganized. soemanang became antara s managing editor, , while malik became deputy. malik, twenty years old @ time, credited keeping agency alive in years building base of supporters in emerging indigenous middle class. after soemanang left antara in 1938 become director of pergoeroean rakjat network of schools, sipahoetar promoted editor-in-chief, , pandoe kartawigoena became agency s deputy editor-in-chief. sipahoetar later elevated managing editor, left agency in 1939 because of illness. alwi soetan osman, employee of indies ministry of justice, briefly succeeded him managing editor before being replaced pandoe kartawigoena.

when japanese forces took control of indies in 1942, empire s dōmei tsushin news agency established branch office in jakarta. antara renamed yashima on 29 may, , absorbed dōmei news network 3 months later. press activity flourished dōmei opened offices in major cities throughout java. when indonesia s independence proclaimed on 17 august 1945, adam malik obtained copy of text , dictated telephone colleagues @ agency. resulting news bulletin slipped past japanese censors , broadcast throughout dōmei s newswire network. dōmei officials attempted retract bulletin, courier able deliver copy of proclamation using agency s name hōsō kanrikyoku radio station in midst of confusion. antara assumed control of dōmei s local network when japanese surrendered allied forces weeks later , reopened under private management on 3 september.

antara s leading journalists saw need agency establish additional branches outside jakarta. sjahroedin, former editor @ dōmei, opened 1 of these offices in british singapore in february 1946. branch received no funding newly formed indonesian government , housed in three-story building in raffles place. goal break dutch or allied monopoly on news indonesia , when local british authorities did not recognize indonesia independent government.

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