The First Malay Newspaper: Jawi Peranakan and Colonial Censorship
Episode 153 of The Story of Malaysia turns to a forgotten chapter of the press: the rise of the first Malay newspaper, Jawi Peranakan, launched in 1876 in Singapore by Munshi Muhammad Said. Lucas and Luna explore how this weekly Jawi-script paper became a platform for colonial critique, Malay nationalism, and literary innovation, decades before the better-known 20th-century movements. They discuss the paper's founder — a Jawi Peranakan of Tamil and Malay heritage — its confrontations with British censors led by Governor Sir Frederick Weld, and its role in shaping a public Malay identity. The episode also touches on the 1888 Venning Road libel case, the paper's eventual closure under the 1890s Printing Presses Ordinance, and its lasting influence on later publications like Al-Imam and Majlis. A nuanced look at how print culture quietly seeded anti-colonial thought in colonial Malaya.
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