Herawati Diah

Siti Latifah Herawati Diah (3 April 1917^[1] – 30 September 2016) was an Indonesian journalist.

Herawati Diah
Born	Siti Latifah Herawati Diah (1917-04-03)3 April 1917 Tanjung Pandan, Belitung, Dutch East Indies
Died	30 September 2016(2016-09-30) (aged 99) Jakarta, Indonesia
Occupation	journalist
Notable credit(s)	founder, Indonesian Observer newspaper, Yayasan Binacarita Indonesia (foundation for education)
Spouse	B.M. Diah
Children	three

Herawati Diah graduated from Barnard College in 1941,^[2] the first Indonesian woman to graduate from a university in the United States.^[3] In 1955, she and her husband B.M. Diah founded The Indonesian Observer.^[4]

Diah died in September 2016 at the age of 99.^[5]

Family

She had three children; two daughters and one son.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. "TokohIndonesia.com article on Herawati Diah". Retrieved 5 May 2022.
2. "System - Error 404". our.barnard.edu. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
3. Merrillees, Scott (2015). Jakarta: Portraits of a Capital 1950–1980. Jakarta: Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9786028397308.
4. "INDONESIA: Surabaya Post, Observer close over financial problems." Pacific Media Watch webpage Archived 20 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 17 February 2007.
5. "Senior journo Herawati Diah passes away - National - The Jakarta Post".

Bibliography

• An Endless Journey: Reflections of an Indonesian Journalist. PT Equinox Publishing, 2005. ISBN 979-3780-06-1