The Jakarta Post

The Jakarta Post

The front page of The Jakarta Post on 28 July 2020
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	PT Bina Media Tenggara (Kompas Gramedia Group)
Founded	25 April 1983; 41 years ago (1983-04-25)
Language	English
Headquarters	Jl. Palmerah Barat 142–143 Jakarta, Indonesia
Country	Indonesia
ISSN	0215-3432
Website	www.thejakartapost.com
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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 groups at the urging of Information Minister Ali Murtopo and politician Jusuf Wanandi. After the first issue was printed on 25 April 1983, it spent several years with minimal advertisements and increasing circulation. After a change in chief editors in 1991, it began to take a more vocal pro-democracy point of view. The paper was one of the few Indonesian English-language dailies to survive the 1997 Asian financial crisis and currently has a circulation of about 40,000.

The Jakarta Post also features an online edition and a weekend magazine supplement called J+. The newspaper is targeted at foreigners and educated Indonesians, although the middle-class Indonesian readership has increased. Noted for being a training ground for local and international reporters, The Jakarta Post has won several awards and has been described as being "Indonesia's leading English-language daily".^[1] The Jakarta Post is a member of the Asia News Network.