Siti Latifah Herawati Diah Today's Google Doodle, Who Is She?

Siti Latifah Herawati Diah. (Between)

JAKARTA - The figure of Siti Latifah Herawati Diah became a Google Doodle on Sunday, March 3. So who is this figure?

Siti Latifah Herawati Diah is a female journalist. Today, 105 years ago, on April 3, 1917, the press figure in Indonesia was born.

Based on various sources, in addition to being a journalist, the woman is known to be an actor in the history of Indonesian independence.

Siti Latifah Herawati Diah is the daughter of Raden Latip, a doctor who works at Billiton Maatschappij, and Siti Alimah.

He was widely educated abroad, attended American High School Tokyo, Japan, then studied sociology at Barnard College and was declared a graduate in 1941.

A year passed, he returned home. His first job was as a freelance journalist for the United Press International (UPI) news agency and turned into a broadcaster on Hosokyoku radio.

At that moment, Siti Latifah Herawati Diah married Burhanuddin Mohammad Diah or BM Diah, who at that time worked at the Asia Raja newspaper. BM Diah was the founder of Harian Merdeka on October 1, 1945. His wife was involved in the process of developing the daily newspaper.

It wasn't until 1955 that Siti Latifah Herawati Diah was involved in establishing the first English-language newspaper in Indonesia called The Indonesian Observer.

Siti Latifah Herawati Diah died at Medistra Hospital, Jakarta on September 30, 2016. She breathed her last because she was old and had blood clots.

The figure of a female Indonesian journalist is buried in the Kalibata Heroes Cemetery, next to the grave of her husband who is also the former Minister of Information, BM Diah.