The Jakarta Post

The Jakarta Post is an English-language newspaper in Indonesia, located in the capital, Jakarta. The founding of the newspaper goes back to the year 1982 when the then Minister of Information Ali Murtopo and Jusuf Wanandi, who represented the newspaper " Suara Karya " of the ruling party Golkar, agreed on the possibility of creating a high-quality English-language newspaper. This should be the Western-dominated news channels oppose an Indonesian perspective. Thus, the Jakarta Post could appear on a journalistic high level, competing media companies worked four, actually interrelated that issued the newspapers or news magazines Karya, Kompas, Sinar Harapan and pace.

The company PT Bina Media Tenggara, the owner of the newspaper, was founded in the same year. The Times Indonesia and the Indonesian Observer has two English-language newspapers at the time were available in the Indonesian market. On April 25, 1983, the first eight-page issue, including with news of Russian espionage activities in the region appeared, and sold 5474 times. After 1991, the editors changed, waving the paper over to a more pro-democratic course. As one of the few English-language daily newspaper in Indonesia The Jakarta Post survived the Asian crisis of 1997 and 1998.

Meanwhile, more than 50,000 copies in broadsheet format are daily printed and sold.