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{{Short description|Defunct Dutch East Indies newspaper}}
{{Infobox Newspaper
|name = Han Po
|image = Han Po newspaper 13 June 1927 page 1.jpg
|caption = Front page of ''Han Po'', 13 June 1927
|type = Twice weekly [[newspaper]]
|format = [[Broadsheet]]
|foundation = 8 November 1926
|ceased publication = 18 January 1934
|founder =
|language = [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]]
|headquarters = [[Palembang]]
|publishing_country = [[Dutch East Indies]]
}}
'''''Han Po''''' was a twice-weekly [[Chinese Indonesian]] newspaper based in [[Palembang]] which was published between 1926 and 1934. The newspaper began publication on 8 November 1926 after initially publishing several sample editions. It was a primarily commercial newspaper and focused on commercial news, charging ''[[Netherlands Indies gulden|f]]'' 4 per three months for subscribers within the Indies.<ref name="seabad">{{cite book |title=Seabad pers kebangsaan, 1907-2007 |date=2007 |publisher=I:Boekoe |isbn=978-979-1436-02-1 |pages=290–293 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=docLAQAAMAAJ |language=id}}</ref> It published on Mondays and Thursdays.
Early in its publication, along with other Chinese Indonesian newspapers such as ''[[Sin Po (newspaper)|Sin Po]]'', ''Han Po'' opted to reject the use of the [[Van Ophuijsen Spelling System]] in its orthography in favor of older, nonstandardized spelling systems.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Oetomo |first1=Dede |author1-link=Dede Oetomo |title=The Chinese of Indonesia and the Development of the Indonesian Language |journal=Indonesia |date=1991 |volume=51 |pages=53–66 |doi=10.2307/3351254|jstor=3351254 |hdl=1813/54720 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>{{rp|58-60}} The paper was a vocal critic of the colonial government's policy to deny Chinese Indonesians citizenship, even if they had been born within the colony. It also adopted a pro-assimilation editorial stance in contrast to ''Sin Po''. Following the [[Great Depression]], reduced revenues forced the newspaper to cease publication, its final edition being on 18 January 1934.<ref name="seabad"/>
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[[Category:1926 establishments in the Dutch East Indies]]
[[Category:1930s disestablishments in the Dutch East Indies]]
[[Category:1934 disestablishments]]
[[Category:Defunct newspapers published in Indonesia]]
[[Category:Companies based in Palembang]]