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Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and broadcasts across a geography of more than seventeen thousand islands, which shapes both the technical and the editorial structure of its media. National channels transmit from a single centre, but the east and west of the country differ in time zone and in agenda.
The present state of Indonesian journalism begins in 1998. The Reformasi that followed the end of the Suharto period dismantled more than three decades of broadcast control; press licensing was abolished and a large number of new newspapers, radio stations and television channels appeared within a short time. It was one of the fastest transformations in press freedom that Southeast Asia has seen.
The structure that emerged carries a distinctive problem: the owners of the country's large broadcast groups are also founders or leaders of political parties. That blurs the distance between media and politics and is a recurring argument in Indonesia. Where the connection is established, the profiles below name it.
The country broadcasts in Indonesian, the result of a national language policy adopted to build a common public sphere in a country where hundreds of local languages are spoken.
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CNN Indonesia is a news channel within the Transmedia group operating a brand partnership with CNN, with content and editorial management belonging to its Indonesian owner.
The international partnership gives it broad access to foreign news flow, which it localises for an Indonesian audience. Domestic politics, the economy and international developments are balanced in its agenda.
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Metro TV went on air in 2000 as Indonesia's first rolling news channel. It was the first realisation of the idea of a news-focused channel in the broadcast space opened by Reformasi, and it introduced the continuous news format to the country.
The channel belongs to Media Group. Its owner is also the founder of one of the country's political parties, a connection cited as a concrete instance in Indonesia's debate about media independence and information readers should hold when weighing the channel.
Its agenda covers national politics, the economy and regional developments.
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tvOne is one of Indonesia's national channels weighted towards news and sport, with bulletins, debate programming and live sports coverage sitting side by side in its schedule.
The relationship between the group behind it and political structures in the country is among the examples frequently cited in Indonesia's argument about media ownership, and readers are best placed watching with that in mind.
Its field network across the country gives it access to events spread across the archipelago.
Streams are shown from each broadcaster's own official YouTube channel through the YouTube player; the content and all rights belong to those broadcasters. Montegre does not broadcast or retransmit. Live news coverage may contain distressing footage.
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