''Suara Pembaruan'' () was an Indonesian daily newspaper. Founded in 1987, it was one of the largest newspapers in Indonesia. ''Suara Pembaruan'' brand is owned by
BeritaSatu Media Holdings, a subsidiary of
Lippo Group
Lippo Group is an Indonesian multinational conglomerate company. The company operates internationally providing property development and management services. It was founded by Mochtar Riady. Lippo has a collective presence across Asia and No ...
, who also owned business daily ''
Investor Daily'' and television channel
BeritaSatu.
History
''Suara Pembaruan'' was first published as an evening newspaper on 4 February 1987. The paper was published as a replacement for ''
Sinar Harapan'', which had been shut down on 9 October 1986 for making political commentary critical of the
New Order regime. It maintained many of the same key people, although a member of the
People's Representative Council
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was chosen as General Director.
In 1991, ''Suara Pembaruan'' reported a circulation of roughly 340,000, ranking as the fourth largest selling daily behind ''
Kompas
''Kompas'' () is an Indonesian national newspaper published in Jakarta, founded on 28 June 1965. It is published by PT Kompas Media Nusantara, which is part of Kompas Gramedia Group. The paper's head office is located at the Kompas Multimedia ...
'', ''
Pos Kota'', and ''
Jawa Pos''. The following year it ranked second in advertising revenue, trailing behind ''Kompas''. ''Suara Pembaruan'' formerly holds shares in ''
The Jakarta Post
''The Jakarta Post'' is a daily English-language newspaper in Indonesia. The paper is owned by PT Bina Media Tenggara and based in the nation's capital, Jakarta.
''The Jakarta Post'' started as a collaboration between four Indonesian media ...
'', which was co-founded by its progenitor ''Sinar Harapan''.
''Suara Pembaruan'' remains in publication, even after some staff were leaving the paper to revive ''Sinar Harapan'' in 2001. Since then, both were competing each other as the same evening newspapers until ''Sinar Harapan'' ceased publication and went online-only in late 2015.
In 2006,
Mochtar Riady of
Lippo Group
Lippo Group is an Indonesian multinational conglomerate company. The company operates internationally providing property development and management services. It was founded by Mochtar Riady. Lippo has a collective presence across Asia and No ...
sat as one of the stakeholders of ''Suara Pembaruan''. This is the beginning of the group ownership of the paper in the next years to come, through its subsidiary Globe Media Group which was later transformed into
BeritaSatu Media Holdings.
Starting 13 January 2020, ''Suara Pembaruan'' turned from evening into morning newspaper. As of 2020, the paper was published Monday to Saturday, with no Sunday edition.
In a release by BeritaSatu Media Holdings on January 21, 2021, ''Suara Pembaruan'' will ceased publication starting on 1 February 2021, citing "digital technology that change people's behavior in obtaining information". In addition, Beritasatu Media Holdings admits that the group has long prepared a systematic media migration from print to digital. However, ''Suara Pembaruan'' brand would be retained and "would return to the public one day in a different format in line with the information technology development".
Style
David Hill describes ''Suara Pembaruans management as being commercially pragmatic and politically cautious, with marketing focused on the secular middle class. Its
Christian
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character has received much discussion in Indonesia.
References
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* {{cite book , last1 = Aritonang , first1 = Jan S. , last2=Steenbrink, first2=Karel A, year = 2008 , title = A History of Christianity in Indonesia , publisher=Brill , location = Leiden , isbn = 978-90-04-17026-1 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cUoGJSs9yOUC&pg=PA974 , access-date =23 August 2011
External links
Official website
Newspapers established in 1987
Publications disestablished in 2021
Indonesian-language newspapers
Defunct newspapers published in Indonesia
2021 disestablishments in Indonesia
1987 establishments in Indonesia