26 | The Soenting Melajoe Women's Newspaper 1912-1921

HERstory: Southeast Asia

This is part of two of us revisiting the Minangkabau matrilineal society. In the previous episode, we talked about Ruhana Kuddus, Indonesia’s First Female Journalist. In this episode, we’re going to talk about Soenting Melajoe, the pioneering indigenous women's newspaper published from 1912-1921 in the Minangkabau community in West Sumatra.

Research and writing for this episode was in collaboration with Joanna Que, with additional research from AJ Miras-Guevarra.

If you haven’t listened to episode 25 yet, go check that out first as we’ll be referencing that here.

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