Mochtar Lubis

Mochtar Lubis was born on 7 March 1922 in Sumatra, into a Batak family. He taught on Nias, worked as a bank clerk in Batavia, then, under the Japanese occupation, translated world news for the army. After independence he was a senior reporter for the Antara agency, and in 1949 he founded the daily Indonesia Raya. His articles against abuses of power earned him nearly nine years of house arrest and prison, from December 1956 to May 1966, then two months of detention in 1975. He died in Jakarta on 2 July 2004.

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