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Kompas
''Kompas'' () is an Indonesian national newspaper from Jakarta which was founded on 28 June 1965. The paper is published by PT Kompas Media Nusantara, which is a part of Kompas Gramedia Group. Its head office is located at the Kompas Multimedia Towers, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta. The paper manages an online portal kompas.id, which contains updated news and the digital subscription version of the paper, while Kompas Gramedia also manages another editorially-separated portal kompas.com. Kompas daily is one of two newspapers in Indonesia audited by the International Federation of Audit Bureau of Circulations. History The paper was first suggested by General Ahmad Yani, then commander of the Indonesian Army, to Frans Seda, a government minister and leader of the Catholic Party. Yani encouraged Seda to publish a newspaper that was representative of the Catholic Party faction, in order to counter the communist propaganda spearheaded by the PKI. Seda sounded out the id ...
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Kompas Gramedia Group
Kompas Gramedia is an Indonesian conglomerate. It has focused on several businesses, predominantly mass media, as well as hospitality, manufacturing, and event organizing. The company's businesses comprises multiple divisions, such as media assets (including ''Kompas'' daily newspaper; the Kompas TV television network; Sonora radio network; and the Gramedia bookstore chain), the Santika Indonesia hospitality chain, Dyandra event organization firm, and as well as Graha Bumi Hijau, a tissue paper manufacturer known with its iconic brand Tessa. History After the success of the magazine '' Intisari'' (released 17 August 1963), P. K. Ojong and Jakob Oetama launched 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 gap 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. The ...
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Jakob Oetama
Jakob Oetama (27 September 1931 – 9 September 2020) was an Indonesian teacher, journalist, and businessman who was one of the co-founders and owners of Kompas Gramedia Group, the largest media group in Indonesia, together with P. K. Ojong. He has served as President Director of Kompas Gramedia, Advisor to the Central Board of the Indonesian Journalists Association, and Advisor to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Journalists Confederation. He was the recipient of the Honoris causa Doctorate in Communications from Gadjah Mada University and the Mahaputra Utama Star award from President Suharto in 1973. The son of a retired teacher in Sleman, Yogyakarta. His journalistic career began when he became the editor of Penabur Weekly in 1956 and continued with the founding of Intisari magazine in 1963 with P. K. Ojong, who may have been inspired by America's Reader's Digest. Two years later, 28 June 1965, together with P. K. Ojong, Oetama founded the ''Kompas'' daily news ...
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Kompas Multimedia Towers
Kompas Multimedia Towers is a complex of 3 towers, named Menara Kompas I, II and III, which is situated at Gelora, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The complex has a land area of about 1.2 hectares. Tower I has a height of 92 meters and 18 floors, tower II has height of 138 meters and 27 floors, and tower III has height of 226 meters and 52 floors. Construction of Tower I and II was completed in 2017. Construction of tower III is expected to be completed by 2018. See also *List of tallest buildings in Indonesia This list of tallest buildings in Indonesia ranks skyscrapers in Indonesia by height. There are 88 high-rise buildings (150m+) in Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia) and its greater areas, and 26 more under construction. Indonesia is ra ... * List of tallest buildings in Jakarta References Towers in Indonesia Buildings and structures in Jakarta Skyscrapers in Jakarta Post-independence architecture of Indonesia Skyscraper office buildings in I ...
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Jakarta
Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital city, capital and list of Indonesian cities by population, largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's list of islands by population, most populous island, Jakarta is the list of cities in ASEAN by population, largest city in Southeast Asia and serves as the diplomatic capital of ASEAN. The city is the economic, cultural, and political centre of Indonesia. It possesses a province-level status and has a population of 10,609,681 as of mid 2021.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022. Although Jakarta extends over only , and thus has the smallest area of any Provinces of Indonesia, Indonesian province, its Jakarta metropolitan area, metropolitan area covers , which includes the satellite cities Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, South Tangerang, and Bekasi, and has an estimated population of 35 million , making it the List of m ...
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Kontan
''Kontan'' () is a business and financial regular publication in Indonesia published by PT Grahanusa Mediatama, owned by Kompas Gramedia. ''Kontan'' consists of two distinct publications: daily newspaper (as ''Kontan'') and weekly tabloid-kind newspaper (as ''Tabloid Kontan''), as well as an online portal. ''Kontan'' was first published on 30 September 1996 as a weekly newspaper, covering Astra International Astra International is an Indonesian conglomerate controlled by Jardine Matheson. It is founded in 1957 by Tjia Kian Tie, Liem Pen Hong with the name of PT. Astra International Incorporated. It is Southeast Asia's largest independent automotive g ... ownership at its front page. The newspaper launched its own daily newspaper on 26 February 2007 as a "business and investment daily". ''Kontan'' launched its e-paper version a year later. References {{reflist External links Official website Business newspapers 1996 establishments in Indonesia Newspapers published in Jaka ...
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East Java
East Java ( id, Jawa Timur) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern and southern coasts, respectively, while the narrow Bali Strait to the east separates Java from Bali by around . Located in eastern Java (island), Java, the province also includes the island of Madura Island, Madura (which is connected to Java by the longest bridge in Indonesia, the Suramadu Bridge), as well as the Kangean Islands, Kangean islands and other smaller island groups located further east (in the northern Bali Sea) and Masalembu Islands, Masalembu archipelagos in the north. Its capital is Surabaya, the Largest cities in Indonesia, second largest city in Indonesia, a major industrial center and also a major business center. Banyuwangi is the largest regency in East Java and the largest on the island of Java. The p ...
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Catholic Party (Indonesia)
Catholic Party ( id, Partai Katolik) was a political party for Indonesia's Catholics from colonial times to the 1970s. In 1967 members were involved in debates concerning religious freedom in the New Order and the influence of missionaries on the nation. In the following decade it merged with other parties to form the Indonesian Democratic Party, which has since been renamed the Indonesian Democratic Vanguard Party. History Pre-independence The participation of Catholics in Indonesia begun in the 1920s. In 1923, Fredericus Soetrisno Harjadi, Ignatius Joseph Kasimo, and others formed the Javan Catholic Political Union ( jv, Pakempalan Politik Katolik Djawi (PPKD)). In the political situation of the Dutch East Indies, PPKD joined itself with the Indische Katholieke Partij (IKP), a federation of Catholic organization in the Dutch East Indies, which was formed in November 1918. Even though PPKD was more oriented to Javanese nationalism, IKP itself was more oriented to the interes ...
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at . With over 275 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia is a presidential republic with an elected legislature. It has 38 provinces, of which nine have special status. The country's capital, Jakarta, is the world's second-most populous urban area. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the eastern part of Malaysia, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and India ...
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Tanah Abang
Tanah Abang is a district of Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The district hosts the biggest textile market in Southeast Asia, Tanah Abang Market. It hosts Bung Karno Stadium, in Kelurahan Gelora, and the western half of the largely skyscraper-dominated Sudirman Central Business District. Namesakes It is also the name of two historic roads in Kelurahan South Petojo, Gambir District. One of these roads, Tanah Abang 1, hosts the old Dutch Cemetery, now partly a museum '' Museum Taman Prasasti'' burial place of Olivia Mariamne Devenish, Eurasian wife of Stamford Raffles. The city's important Textile Museum is, contrary to as is colloquially stated, in West Jakarta (Kelurahan Kota Bambu Selatan, Palmerah District) just over the western border. Tanah Abang market Tanah Abang market is in the ''Kelurahan'' Kebon Kacang thus next to Tanah Abang station, on the western edge. The market has been known to exist since 1735. The market is the main forum for textile trade orders in I ...
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Panji Koming
Panji may refer to: Geography * Panji District (潘集区), Huainan, Anhui, China ** Panji Town (潘集镇), a town in Panji District * Panji (subdistrict), Situbondo Regency, East Java, Indonesia * Way Panji, South Lampung Regency, Lampung, Indonesia Entertainment * Panji tales, a cycle of Javanese folk stories * '' Panji Koming'', an Indonesian cartoon appearing in ''Kompas'' * '' Panji Manusia Millenium'', an Indonesian soap opera Other uses * Panjis or Panji Prabandh, genealogical records maintained among Maithil Brahmins and Karna Kayasthas of Mithila region of north Bihar, India * Raden Panji, a Javanese title used by noblemen from Pasuruan Regency * Panjika or Panji, a Hindu astronomical almanac See also * Panaji, or Panjim, a city in Goa, India * Bikash Panji Bikash Panji is a retired Indian professional football midfielder who played for India. Playing career Panji represented India at the 1984 Asian Cup. He also played club football for Mohun Bagan and E ...
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Central Java
Central Java ( id, Jawa Tengah) is a province of Indonesia, located in the middle of the island of Java. Its administrative capital is Semarang. It is bordered by West Java in the west, the Indian Ocean and the Special Region of Yogyakarta in the south, East Java in the east, and the Java Sea in the north. It has a total area of 32,800.69 km2, with a population of 36,516,035 at the 2020 Census making it the third-most populous province in both Java and Indonesia after West Java and East Java. The official estimate as at mid 2021 was 36,742,501.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022. The province also includes the island of Nusakambangan in the south (close to the border of West Java), and the Karimun Jawa Islands in the Java Sea. Central Java is also a cultural concept that includes the Yogyakarta Special Region, in turn including the city of Yogyakarta; however, administratively that city and its surrounding regencies have formed a separate special region (equiv ...
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Broadsheet
A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages, typically of . Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and tabloid–compact formats. Description Many broadsheets measure roughly per full broadsheet spread, twice the size of a standard tabloid. Australian and New Zealand broadsheets always have a paper size of A1 per spread (). South African broadsheet newspapers have a double-page spread sheet size of (single-page live print area of 380 x 545 mm). Others measure 22 in (560 mm) vertically. In the United States, the traditional dimensions for the front page half of a broadsheet are wide by long. However, in efforts to save newsprint costs, many U.S. newspapers have downsized to wide by long for a folded page. Many rate cards and specification cards refer to the "broadsheet size" with dimensions representing the front page "half of a broadsheet" size, rather than the full, unfolded broadsheet spread. S ...
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