RIP Rosihan Anwar was die today, Rosihan Anwar (born Could 10 1922) is a renowned Indonesian journalist and author.
Rosihan Anwar was born in Kubang Nan Dua, West Sumatra. Rosihan received early education at HIS and MULO in Padang. He continued his school to AMS in Yogyakarta and usually participated journalism workshop at Columbia University, RIP Rosihan Anwar
New York. His career began as reporter in Asia Raya newspaper while Japanese invasion. In 1947, he founded Siasat magazine. He also the founder and editor of Pedoman newspaper, which was twice forcibly closed by Sukarno regime (1961) and Suharto's New Order administration (1974), simply because of its vocal criticism of the authoritarian regime.Rosihan Anwar was not interested in power, but extra of conscience and of culture. He wrote criticism in local and foreign media. He was one of the founders of the National Film Organization (Perfani). He nicely recognized as writer, and published 30 books and wrote hundreds of articles mostly in Indonesian. The last book he wrote Petite Histoire Indonesia was about Indonesian history
