THE SIN PO PRESS, LTD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007400390001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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'OP I REPORT D NO.
"Y'e Sin Po Press, 'r.td.
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DATE O?TR 30 .. 52.
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REPORT NO.
'PAN Kati Yen has a lo-+r stanch *'F, finance al interest in the Ch, nese daily
news--soer, Sin Po, D1tb'ishecl in Djaker{a. This newspaper, w?:} ch -eeues
* rI 'rose and Tndonesian edit' on, is control lei by the Sin Po Press, Ltd.,
a. cormasrr with offices at Asemka 29, Djakarta.
On gi.nalay 60 pr'rcent. o." the paid-up capital of the con-any was issued
in hearer sharer, h.el,l 'ter LET' Kong Chian on 1-ehalf of his father-in-law,
'SAT' Kah Agee. 'T'hese shares were rr moeely iseitert as bearer sl'ares to sGyfe-
gnares tl-(, owr-irs in the rve-nt o any le! l action brought a .ainst the paper,
F? ubsersseni.ly}, TP?" ordered his shares tr?ansferrerl by LEE to AT'G Jan Goan and
GO 't'iaav Goan, resneci ?vel.y t'-'e ' anaging Ed for of the Sin Po Mess, Ltd. ,
-anri the Ile-),,tv C1 of Editor a' the I'dones ianedition of the Sin Po. This
transfer, abstensibl'rr clone as r rift, was actually mfl.de on condition that
~~cstbs t'e Chinese and Indonesian editions of the is,anFr further the Coi-
='ssn?:ist Ceaszs- Iy dissemin;s tang ant i-Ttionintang and anti--iaipnrialist prom-
panda. A31G and GO both old coll.e friends of TEE Kong CI-Ian., are thought
;o bold rphs. 300,000 worth of bearer shares.
Fn 1047 a dissrreeTwert arose: betwe,.n fWE"' Kek P eng, Then Chief 'Editor of
the Sin Pofs Infioneslan edition, a l a group of Communist sympathizers,
~'nc'sdi' Ar'G Jan r=oar , GO T'isuw Goan, TRIO T`onP, Hey, Director and Basiness
`'anger- of the Indonesian edition, and TTTO Joe I~an_, sub-Edi+or and share-
",older, KId 'E had rn^rsistently ref tssed to p?b? i.sh nro-Corinunisi. elitorials
cnl or{ icl.es in the Indonesian edition, He was forced to resign and his
311 .res, -rourting to some rnhs. 35,000, were taken over by his opponr,nts.
Af+.er KWI:I'.*s resignation: a ,ember of Chief r'nitors were successivelt enrapeci,
but none were found suitable. M G Jan Goan finally took over this position.
onnti.n"es to nublish,t nro-Como nisi. material,
The -?resent ac""te short.nge o1' newsnrint in IvrIonesian is threatening publi.ca-.
ion of the Sin Po,. However, LEE Kol g C1 ian has assureri AT7G end GO that
regular sup-lies o f. per wi P be made available as long as this new paper
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Approved For Release 1999/09/09: CIA-RDP82-00457ROO740390001-1