However, this printing house soon collapsed as it was persecuted by the Dutch authorities and many members of the communist movement were deported to concentration camps in Boven Digoel. This left some ambiguity about who owned it and who was responsible for it. Therefore some commentators in the press at the time declared that Neratja and Hindia Baroe were "dead" due to mismanagement. An even more serious case opened in 1928 against former editor Soetadi, then a sitting member of the Indies Volksraad (parliament). He was accused of having pocketed 15 thousand Dutch guilder from an investment in Neratja from the organization Perkoempoelan Guru Bantu in 1923. By 1929, early Neratja editor Abdul Muis, who had worked for Kaoem Moeda in the years in between, became head of the Bintang Timoer, the paper which had leveled the most serious accusations of espionage against Agus Salim. References Defunct newspapers published in Indonesia Malay-language newspapers Dutch East Indies 1917 establishments in the Dutch East Indies Newspapers published in the Dutch East Indies 1926 disestablishments in the Dutch East Indies