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29-554: Toko Buku Gramedia ( Gramedia Bookstore ) is an Indonesian bookstore owned by Kompas Gramedia . Established in 1970, Gramedia Asri Media has contributed to give inspiration through knowledge, endeavor and direct participation to society for more than 50 years. Started in February 2, 1970 with the beginning of a small bookstore in West Jakarta . Providing more than 120 retail stores spread across 53 cities in 33 provinces, Gramedia Asri Media
58-528: A satellite television services provider, before its 60% stake was acquired by MNC Media in 2019. Gramedia was first established on 2 February 1970, owned and managed by PT Gramedia Asri Media (GAM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kompas Gramedia. GAM is the retail distribution channel for the group which also handles foreign publishers and partners. The first bookstore is in Jalan Gajah Mada , West Jakarta . Kompas Gramedia went on to set up PT Gramedia ,
87-576: A national newspaper called Kompas . The newspaper's first issue was released on 28 June 1965. Their aim was to fill some of the huge gaps in daily news and information that existed at that time. Kompas has since become a large circulation newspaper with an audited circulation in 2005 of 600,000 copies a day. As the largest media company in Indonesia, the KGG operates the largest network printing service in Indonesia. As of 2018, all media units of Kompas Gramedia
116-545: A printing plant in Jakarta in 1972 in order to meet the ever-increasing needs of the newspapers and magazines. Gramedia offers books, stationery, office supplies, sports supplies, high-technology products, and others. Since 1981, Kompas Gramedia Group spread to the hospitality business, under PT Grahawita Santika . Kompas Gramedia Group officially launched Multimedia Nusantara University in 2006. Located in Tangerang , Banten ,
145-489: A subsidiary of CT Corp ) bought 55% of TV7 shares and changed its name to Trans 7 . On 9 September 2011, Kompas Gramedia launched another television network Kompas TV . The group also owns and operates local station KTV , a local TV station in Jakarta which the group bought in 2011 and became one of the initial affiliates of Kompas TV before it spun off as an independent station in 2015. Kompas Gramedia also founded K-Vision ,
174-597: A variety of other products, such as stationery, office supplies, and sports equipment. Gramedia Bookstores was established by the founder P.K. Ojong since his goal was to distribute books across Indonesia. This Indonesia -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kompas Gramedia Kompas Gramedia is a major Indonesian media company. It engages in several businesses, predominantly mass media, as well as hospitality, manufacturing, and event organizing. The company's businesses consist of multiple divisions, such as media assets (including
203-478: A year. Besides the aforementioned companies, the group also owned several other publishing companies, such as Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia (KPG, literally Gramedia Popular Books ) and Penerbit Buku Kompas (published books under the Kompas brand). Kompas.com is the online news portal of Kompas , but of separate editorial staff. As of early 2014, Kompas.com is the second largest after detik.com . Tribunnews.com
232-778: A year. The group has met demands for technological as well as educational publications. PT Elex Media Komputindo (EMK), founded in 1985, publishes books on computers and electronics. EMK also publishes technology-related business and management books, comics, educational books, and computer software. Annually EMK publishes about 1500 new titles, 51% of which are translations from foreign works. PT Prima Info Sarana Media issues computer magazine Infokomputer and Tabloid PC Plus as well as home and interior design tabloid Rumah. In 1990 PT Gramedia Widiasarana Indonesia , popularly known as Grasindo, started to concentrate on school textbooks and other educational materials for kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools. It now publishes around 300 new titles
261-498: Is also the largest circulating newspaper in Southeast Asia. PT Grahanusa Mediatama published Kontan , the business and financial publication. Originally published in 1996 as a weekly newspaper (now called Tabloid Kontan ), currently Kontan also published as a daily newspaper. PT Indopersda Primamedia, more known as Tribun Network, is the local newspaper chain founded by Kompas Gramedia. Operating regional newspapers since 1988,
290-467: Is expanding to have official online sales channels on all major platforms with more than one million active members and continues to grow under the Gramedia brand. Gramedia Asri Media is reinforced by six major publishers which have released more than 100,000 book titles, making Gramedia Asri Media the largest publisher and book retail group in Southeast Asia. In addition to providing books, Gramedia also offers
319-440: Is reorganized into one subsidiary, called KG Media. PT Kompas Media Nusantara published Kompas , the national daily newspaper. Kompas began its first issue on 28 June 1965. Since 1969, Kompas has dominated sales nationwide. As of 2013, Kompas had an average circulation of 500,000 copies per day, reaching an average of 1,850,000 people per day. Kompas is not just regarded as the largest circulating newspaper in Indonesia but
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#1733106446472348-1053: Is the online news portal of Tribun Network. Tribunnews.com was cited by Andalas University in 2018 as the most popular nationally hosted website in Indonesia, with 183.2 million visits per month. It was ranked 38 in the world's most popular websites by traffic as of April 16, 2020 by Alexa Internet . 1973 saw the inception of Radio Sonora which broadcast mainly into metropolitan Jakarta. Now RS has other radio stations in cities such as Surabaya ( East Java ), Yogyakarta ( DI Yogyakarta ), Pangkalpinang ( Bangka Belitung ), Pontianak ( West Kalimantan ), Palembang ( South Sumatra ), Bandung , Cirebon ( West Java ), Semarang , Solo , Purwokerto ( Central Java ), Bali , Palangkaraya , Banjarbaru , Makassar , and Medan . To complete its core business alignment, Kompas Gramedia founded PT Duta Visual Nusantara Tivi Tujuh, popularly known as TV7, in 2001. TV7 provides family entertainment programmes (news, children's programmes, sports, and movie films). In 2006, Trans Corp (currently Trans Media ,
377-664: The Kompas daily newspaper; the Kompas TV television network; the Sonora radio network; the Gramedia bookstore chain, the Santika Indonesia hospitality chain, Dyandra event organization firm, and Graha Bumi Hijau, a tissue paper manufacturer known for its flagship brand, Tessa. After the success of the magazine Intisari (released 17 August 1963), P. K. Ojong and Jakob Oetama launched
406-495: The Ministry of Information under the B.J. Habibie administration relaxed the procedures for applying for a business license (SIUPP) for print media. Indonesia's national newspaper, Kompas (a subsidiary of KG), up until 1998, had designated only two pages per issue for news in Jakarta and its surroundings which were mostly filled with advertisements, even though the newspaper was published in Jakarta. To fill this void, Warta Kota
435-537: The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. Of these, only 48 passed the selection process, overseen by intellectual Nurcholish Madjid . The elections were to be overseen by an independent General Elections Commission (KPU) of 53 members, one from each party and five government representatives. The system used was based on closed party-list proportional representation at the provincial level. Within each province, parties were awarded seats in proportion to their share of
464-506: The armed forces . Under the New Order , only two political parties forcibly merged in 1973 – Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) and United Development Party (PPP) – plus the functional group Golkar had been allowed to participate in elections. With the start of the Reform Era , more than 100 new political parties emerged. New elections were called for 1999 and 148 parties registered with
493-545: The chain currently publishes 22 regional newspapers — some of them bearing the unified name Tribun — as well as a national sports newspaper Super Ball . Warta Kota ( The City News ) is a daily Indonesian morning newspaper published in Jakarta , Indonesia , serving the Jabodetabek area. It is in a broadsheet format and published by PT Metrogema Media Nusantara, a subsidiary of Kompas Gramedia (KG), and part of The Tribun Network . Warta Kota began publication after
522-511: The election, among them former US president Jimmy Carter . In the last few days before the vote on 7 June, newspapers carried advertisements sponsored by the Indonesian Election Committee (PPI) explaining how to vote and urging people to do so. On the day itself, polls opened at 8 am. People cast their vote by piercing the party symbol on the ballot paper and then dipped a finger in indelible ink to prevent repeat voting. When
551-566: The first elections since the fall of Suharto and end of the New Order , the first free elections in Indonesia since 1955, and the first and only free legislative election held in East Timor during Indonesian provincehood. With the ending of restrictions on political activity following the fall of Suharto , a total of 48 parties contested the 462 seats up for election in the People's Representative Council . A further 38 seats were reserved for members of
580-563: The five government representatives. Eventually, later that same day President Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie in a live TV broadcast declared the results were valid. The PDI-P, led by Megawati Sukarnoputri , had won the largest share of the vote with Golkar in second place. The process of allocating seats in the People's Representative Council took several months with the PPI announcing the results on 1 September. A total of 21 parties had won seats, with
609-401: The information was easy to access. One way the public could access the latest results was by sending a short message service text to a specific number. The sender then received information about provincial or party results. On 9 June, Carter's team reported that although there had been "shortcomings" and allegations of financial abuses, they did not appear to have had a significant impact on
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#1733106446472638-616: The newspapers urging people to use their vote. In the final week, the main parties held huge rallies in the capital: the PKB on 1 June, the National Mandate Party (PAN) on 2 June, the PDI-P on 3 June and Golkar on 4 June, at which its supporters were attacked. At one minute past midnight on 5 June, all party flags, banners and posters began to be removed as the campaign officially ended. International observers continued to arrive to oversee
667-476: The polling day activities. The count was slow, with votes taking several weeks to count. Before he left Indonesia, Carter expressed his concern about this. At a meeting at the General Election Commission building on 26 June, only 22 of the 53 members of the commission were prepared to accept the result. These comprised the representatives of 17 of the parties (with 93% of the vote between them) and
696-528: The university offers ICT-based higher education. The group also operates education training ELTI (short for English Language Training International ) with branches spread across Indonesia. Founded in 1981, ELTI became part of the group in 1989. Indonesian legislative election, 1999 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Early legislative elections were held in Indonesia on 7 June 1999. They were
725-454: The vote. The East Java province had the most number of seats, with 82, while the lowest was in Bengkulu and East Timor with four each. The official election campaign began on 19 May 1999 and ended on 4 June to allow two 'rest days' before the vote itself. It was divided into three stages, with different parties being allowed to campaign on different days. However, before the campaign, there
754-415: The votes were counted, each ballot paper was held up for onlookers to see. There was independent monitoring down to the level of polling stations by Indonesians as well as by 100 observers and support staff from 23 counties led by Jimmy Carter. On polling day, Carter said that it would have been extremely difficult to manipulate the election data because of the well-prepared information network and because
783-485: Was attacked and damaged The traffic circle in front of Hotel Indonesia was a popular spot for rallies. Meanwhile, there was an increase of people heading for Singapore to escape possible violence as polling day neared, with one newspaper reporting that more than 78,000 people had left. As well as rallies, the major parties took out full-colour advertisements in newspapers. Each party was also given air time TV for statements by lone spokespeople. There were also ads in
812-802: Was created. Warta Kota was first published on May 3, 1999, amid the 1999 general election campaign. The magazine unit of Kompas Gramedia is organized under Grid Network subsidiary. The business unit also handles 43 tabloids and magazine titles (30 originals and 13 licensed) as well as successful comic series and other books titles such as: Licensed magazine titles include: As of December 2016, there are eight monthly printed magazines or tabloids (Kawanku, Sinyal, Chip, Chip Foto Video, What Hi Fi, Auto Expert, Car and Turning Guide, and Motor), which were transformed into online publications. In 1973 Kompas Gramedia formed Gramedia Pustaka Utama (GPU) and began publishing its first titles. This company enjoyed outstanding success and today publishes more than 600 titles
841-617: Was violence between supporters of rival parties. Four people were killed in fighting between followers of the United Development Party (PPP) and the National Awakening Party (PKB) on 1 May and three more died in clashes between Golkar and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) supporters on 11 May. On the first day of the campaign there was a parade of party vehicles in Central Jakarta. The Golkar float
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