Tribun Network

Tribun Network is a newspaper chain and online news outlet in Indonesia owned by Kompas Gramedia. Currently, the group owns 22 local newspapers and a national newspaper spread across 24 cities and regencies in Indonesia.

Tribun Network

History

The headquarters of Banjarmasin Post in Banjarmasin, a part of Tribun Network

In the late 1980s, the Department of Information asked major newspapers to assist minor local newspapers which were hampered by the press permit (SIUPP) problem. The government restricted advertisement space to 30% of all content for newspapers not aiding minor papers.^[1]

In 1987, Kompas Gramedia took over the ownership of the Sriwijaya Post in Palembang, and established the subsidiary PT Indopersda Primamedia (Persda) to assist regional newspapers in need. In 1988, Kompas Gramedia took over Mimbar Swadaya a weekly newspaper in Banda Aceh, to rebranding to Serambi Indonesia, and the weekly newspaper Surya in Surabaya, which began publishing daily. Kompas Gramedia took over the Pos Kupang daily in 1992, and in 1994, the Banjarmasin Post.^{[2][user-generated source]}

Persda later strengthened its business by publishing its own regional newspapers in other cities under the Tribun brand. The first newspaper to hold the brand Tribun Kaltim was first published in 2003 in Balikpapan; followed by Tribun Timur (Makassar), Tribun Jabar (Bandung), among others.

In 2010, Persda rebranded to Tribun Network, and launched the unified tribunnews.com online portal.^[3]

In 2014, Tribun Network published a national-oriented sports newspaper Super Ball^[4] as a spin-off for the football section of its newspaper members. Its online portal, which was originally a subdomain of Tribunnews.com, is currently a subdomain of Bolasport.com.^[5]

List of newspapers

Name	Locale	Notes
Serambi Indonesia	Banda Aceh, Aceh
Tribun Medan	Medan, North Sumatra
Tribun Pekanbaru	Pekanbaru, Riau
Tribun Batam	Batam, Riau Islands
Tribun Jambi	Jambi, Jambi
Sriwijaya Post	Palembang, South Sumatra
Tribun Sumsel	Palembang, South Sumatra
Bangka Pos	Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung
Pos Belitung	Tanjung Pandan, Bangka Belitung
Tribun Lampung	Bandar Lampung, Lampung
Tribun Jakarta	Special Capital Region of Jakarta	Digital publication, now defunct
Warta Kota	Special Capital Region of Jakarta
Tribun Jabar	Bandung, West Java
Tribun Jateng	Semarang, Central Java
Tribun Jogja	Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta
Surya	Surabaya, East Java
Tribun Pontianak	Pontianak, West Kalimantan
Tribun Kaltim	Balikpapan, East Kalimantan
Banjarmasin Post	Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan
Tribun Timur	Makassar, South Sulawesi
Tribun Manado	Manado, North Sulawesi
Tribun Bali	Gianyar, Bali
Pos Kupang	Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara
Super Ball	Special Capital Region of Jakarta	National sports newspaper

Online news

Tribunnews.com

Type of site	News website
Available in	Indonesian
Owner	Tribun Network (Kompas Gramedia Group)
URL	www.tribunnews.com
Commercial	Yes
Launched	22 March 2010; 15 years ago (2010-03-22)
Current status	Active

Tribunnews.com is Tribun Network's online news portal, with the chain's newspapers publishing in via subdomains.

Tribunnews.com was the most popular nationally-hosted website in Indonesia in 2018, with 183.2 million visits per month.^[6] It was 38th in the world's most popular websites by traffic as of April 16, 2020^[update].^[7]

In January 2019, Tribunnews.com was among the seven Indonesian online media with the highest viewership, reaching 150 million Indonesians, or 56% of the population.^[8]

Criticism

In 2023, the Makassar branch of the website, Tribun Timur, as well as its associated YouTube channel have been criticized by BBC Monitoring as well as the Indonesian watchdog Remotivi for its pro-Russian coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[9][10]