Kompas Gramedia Group

Kompas Gramedia Group

Kompas Gramedia is the largest media conglomerate in Indonesia.
After the success of the magazine Intisari, P. K. Ojong and Jakob Oetama launched a national newspaper called Kompas. The newspaper's 1st issue was released on 28 June 1965.
Their aim was to breach the huge gap in daily news and information that that was lacking at that time. Kompas has since become a large circulation newspaper with an audited circulation in 2005 of 60gest printing plants in Indonesia.
The Newspaper is distributed to all parts of Indonesia. With a circulation an average of 500 thousand copies per day and reached 600 thousand copies for the Sunday edition, Kompas isn't just the largest circulating printed media in Indonesia, but also it is the largest Circulating newspaper in South East asia. Since the introduction of the iPad, Kompas Newspaper was the 1st Printed media in South east asia that made its own digital newspaper version for iPad.
Gramedia Bookstore in Jakarta was 1st established on 2nd of February 1970. Gramedia Bookstores is owned and managed by PT Gramedia Asri Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of KGG. GAM is the retail distribution channel for KGG which also handles foreign publishers and partners. The 1st Toko Buku Gramedia is jalan gajah mada, west Jakarta.
In 1973 KGG formed PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama and began publishing its 1st titles. This company enjoyed outstanding success and today, publishes more than 600 titles a year.
Beside its own original titles, GPU has foreign copyrights licenses and arrangements for Indonesia. GPU has 60% of foreign books translated and published in Indonesia. Collectively, GPU handles around 4,000 active titles, distributed through Gramedia Bookstores as well as others.
The Group has met soaring demands for technological as well as educational publications. PT Elex Media Komputindo, founded in 1985, publishes books on computers and electronics. Due to increased diverse new demands, EMK also publishes technology related business and management books, other comics, educational 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, was started to concentrate on school textbooks and other educational materials for kindergarten, primary and secondary schools. It now publishes around 300 new titles a year.
PT Radio Sonora which broadcast mainly into Metropolitan Jakarta. Now RS has 5 other radio stations in cities like Surabaya (East Java), Yogyakarta (Central Java), Pangkalpinang (Bangka), Pontianak (West Kalimantan) and Palembang (South Sumatera).
To complete its core business alignment, KGG founded Duta Visual Nusantara, popularly known as TV7 in 2001. TV7 provides family entertainment programs and reaches a 125-million audience viewership throughout Indonesia.. Since 2006, Trans Corporation, owner of TransTV, has bought TV7, changing its name into Trans 7.

Since 9 September 2011, Kompas TV.

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Since the 1981, Kompas Gramedia Group started to spread their wings to hospitality business. Under the Grahawita Santika Ltd. As the owning and management Hotel Santika opened their 1st hotel in Bandung. Upon its success entering the hospitality field, Santika constructed new hotels around Indonesia’s big cities. All the 4-stars Santika Hotels are categorized in Santika Premiere and the remaining hotels are still listed as Hotel Santika.
KGG's core business enterprises remain in the information, communication and education business. The Group also has diversified interests including hotels, development of real estate (PT Permata Media Land), tissue paper production (PT Graha Kerindo Utama), and travel bureau (PT Ina Media Wisatamas).
In addition to all of the above, KGG also operates quality computer schools under LPKT. LPKT holds the master license for Futurekids for Indonesia. Beside computer education KGG also operates ELTI schools.
The group also has two cultural centres in Jakarta and Yogyakarta under the name of Bentara Budaya. These places are used to keep the company's antique collections, and the hall are often used for discussions on culture and also serve as an art gallery.
Its products range from â€" books and accessories (stationery, digital/IT and multimedia, sports and music).
Currently, 80% of Gramedia's book stock is local works produced in Indonesia or foreign materials that have been translated into Indonesian. These include books on various subjects and themes, study materials, assessment books, road directory, magazines and comics.

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