Herawati Diah

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

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

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