Is the Newspaper Part of The Important State Archives?

According on Pramoedya's method of writing all his books, he looks for information based on all archives related to his books. One of them is newspapers. According to Pram, newspapers are one of the important archives, which for some people, newspapers are only considered as secondary archives.

There must be a reason why Pram always uses newspapers for his work. Because only in the newspaper we can see society.

An old man was reading the newspaper after finishing his meal while relaxing.

Attention-grabbing newspaper pages. This old man was reading how the governor did his job and how are other society with all their problems.