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| Amanat Hati Nurani Rakyat (The Mandate of People's Conscience) | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | PT Kompas Media Nusantara (Kompas Gramedia Group) |
| Founder(s) | P. K. Ojong Jakob Oetama |
| Editor-in-chief | Sutta Dharmasaputra |
| Founded | 28 June 1965 (1965-06-28) |
| Political alignment | Secular |
| Language | Indonesian |
| Ceased publication | 1965, 1978 (temporarily) |
| Headquarters | Kompas Gramedia Building Jl. Palmerah Selatan 22–28Central Jakarta 10270 |
| City | Jakarta |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Circulation | Average of 500,000[1] |
| Sister newspapers | Kontan |
| ISSN | 0215-207X |
| OCLC number | 12594358 |
| Website | kompas.id kompas.com |
Kompas (lit. 'Compass') is an Indonesian nationalnewspaper published inJakarta, founded on 28 June 1965. It is published by PT Kompas Media Nusantara, which is part ofKompas Gramedia Group. The paper's head office is located at theKompas Multimedia Towers,Tanah Abang,Central Jakarta. It is considered Indonesia'snewspaper of record.
The paper manages an online portal,kompas.id, which contains updated news and the digital subscription version of the paper, while Kompas Gramedia also manages another editorially separated portal,kompas.com.Kompas is one of two newspapers in Indonesia audited by theInternational Federation of Audit Bureau of Circulations.
GeneralAhmad Yani, then commander of theIndonesian Army, first suggested the paper toFrans Seda, a government minister and leader of theCatholic Party. Yani encouraged Seda to publish a newspaper representative of the Catholic Party faction to counter the communist propaganda spearheaded by thePKI.
Seda sounded out the idea to his friends, P.K. Ojong andJakob Oetama. Ojong subsequently agreed to undertake the project, and Oetama became its firsteditor-in-chief. Later, the newspaper's mission was focused on becoming independent and free from any political factions.
The publication was initially namedBentara Rakyat (People's Herald). At PresidentSukarno's suggestion, it was renamed toKompas after thedirection-finding instrument.
Kompas began its publication on 28 June 1965 from an office in centralJakarta. Its circulation grew from an initial circulation of 4,800 copies in 1965 to around 500,000 in 2014. Since 1969,Kompas has been the largest nationalIndonesian-language newspaper in the country. Its circulation peaked in 2004 when its daily circulation reached 530,000 copies, and its Sunday edition reached 610,000 copies sold. There were about 2.25 million readers in all. In 2014, its circulation reached 507,000, with 66% circulating inGreater Jakarta.[2]
Like many daily newspapers,Kompas contains three parts: a front section containing national and international news, a business and finance section, and a sports section.
Kompas featured thePanji Koming andBenny & Mice comic strips every Sunday until 2010.[citation needed]
In 1988,Kompas was the first newspaper to trial sending news stories via an internet connection when the internet was still unknown in Indonesia. The newspaper's sports division first delivered news via the internet in September 1988, covering the Seoul Olympics that year. In 1993, while covering theSoutheast Asian Games in Singapore, Kompas was the first Indonesian newspaper to send a picture online.[3]
On 14 September 1995,Kompas launched its internet news division and website, Kompas Online. Initially, the website used a .co.id domain before switching to a .com domain a year later.[3] In 1998, Kompas Online was rebranded as Kompas Cyber Media[3] and again in 2008 as Kompas.com. Aside from the rebranding, the internet news division still uses the www.kompas.com domain to this day.
Kompas began its first issue with a circulation of 4,800 copies. In 2004, daily circulation reached 530,000 copies, and the special Sunday edition reached 610,000 copies.Kompas's print edition had an average circulation of 500,000 copies per day, and the average number of readers reached 1,850,000 people per day.[1]
The paper is distributed throughout Indonesia. With an average circulation of 500,000 copies per day and reaching 600,000 copies for the Sunday edition,Kompas has the largest circulation of any newspaper inSoutheast Asia.[4]Kompas was the first print media in Asia to create a digital newspaper version for the iPad.[5]
The first regional section included in the paper was forEast Java in 2003, followed byCentral Java,Yogyakarta,West Java, and two otherSumatran regional sections. However, in January 2011, the newspaper closed down regional sections and returned to a uniform edition nationwide. No clear reason was given for the action.[6]
