Jakarta – Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Inc. and PT Transmedia Corpora launched CNNIndonesia.com, a key component of the historic partnership between CNN, the world’s news provider and one of Indonesia’s media corporations. CNNIndonesia.com is the world-class digital element of the CNN Indonesia TV channel which will begin broadcasting next year.
The website is an integral part of CNN Indonesia and the launch marks a major milestone in providing news in Bahasa Indonesia to a growing audience in Indonesia and around the world. CNNIndonesia.com offers both local and international news, plus the latest in business, science and technology, entertainment and sport.
One of the distinguishing features of CNNIndonesia.com is ‘Fokus’, a unique offering providing unparalleled coverage of key events affecting Indonesians with analysis, opinion and special reports from investigative journalists and key Indonesian identities.
Jeff Zucker, CNN Worldwide President, said, “We couldn’t be happier about our partnership with Transmedia in this exciting new venture, enabling us to reach audiences we have never been able to before. This team of dedicated digital journalists will not only be able to report Indonesian news in a comprehensive way online, but they will play a key role in CNN’s worldwide newsgathering operation.”
Chairul Tanjung, Founder and Chairman of Transmedia’s parent company, CT Corp, said, “The website will uphold and promote CNN’s highest level of journalistic standards of accuracy, credibility and valued news judgement. Whether you access news via the website or TV channel, CNN Indonesia will become the country’s news organisation available on any platform. I am thrilled CNNIndonesia.com is available to Indonesians right around the world. This is indeed an exciting day for all Indonesians and we couldn’t be more proud.”
The CNN Indonesia digital team will be led by widely respected and well known executive Budiono Darsono. He will be supported by a team of digital experts including Yusuf Arifin and Nezar Patria who will work closely alongside their editorial and newsgathering TV counterparts.
With more than 100 million Indonesians expected to be online by 2016, CNNIndonesia.com is a vital part of CNN and complements the on-air channel which launches in 2015. CNNIndonesia.com is compatible with iOS and Android applications.
