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.
History
In the late 1980s, the Department of Information asked major newspapers to assist minor local newspapers which were hampered by the press permit problem. The government restricted advertisement space to 30% of all content for newspapers not aiding minor papers.In 1987, Kompas Gramedia took over the ownership of the Sriwijaya Post in Palembang, and established the subsidiary PT Indopersda Primamedia ' 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.
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, Tribun Jabar, among others.
In 2010, Persda rebranded to Tribun Network, and launched the unified online portal.
In 2014, Tribun Network published a national-oriented sports newspaper Super Ball'' 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.
Online news
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. It was 38th in the world's most popular websites by traffic as of 2020.
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.