Press
Of the total number, 1687 in 1999, 1,149 publication (consisting of dailies, weeklies, weekly-, monthly- and tree-monthly magazines, and bulletins) were found in Java, Island, 240 in Sumatra Island, 49 in Kalimantan, 173 in Sulawesi, 33 in Nusatenggara and Bali Islands, and 24 in Maluku and Papua Islands.
At the same time, there were 160 daily newspapers in Java, 72 in Sumatra, 15 in Nusatenggara and Bali Islands, 15 in Kalimantan, 24 in Sulawesi and 9 in Maluku and Papua, The most popular national daily paper is the Jakarta- based Kompas daily. Other major national daily papers are Suara Pembaruan, Media Indonesia, Republika, Sinar Harapan, Tempo and the Jakarta Post.

News Agency
The country’s leading national news agency is ANTARA, which was established in 1937. ANTARA has its local offices in almost all of 30 provinces of Indonesia and some representative offices abroad.

Radio
The largest radio network in Indonesia the Radio Republic Indonesia (RRI) was founded on 11th September 1945.
Since 1966, private radio stations have been allowed to operate. Since then the number of private radio enterprises tends to increase significantly. They are advised to include informative, educational and cultural programs, in their broadcasts, though to relay the news by RRI not longer an obligation but optional.
RR1’s headquarters are located in Jakarta. It has five major relay stations in Medan, Yogyakarta, Banjarmasin, Makassar, and Jayapura. RRI’s overseas(Voice of Indonesia) broadcasts program in ten foreign languages. Now, RRI with its 53 stations manned by approximately 8,500 personnel, and spread throughout the country, changed its status from once government owned radio to public broadcasting service, pursuant to Government Regulation No. 37 of 2000 signed by President of Republic of Indonesia on June 7,2000

Television
Television in Indonesia was put into operation on August 17, 1962 when Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI) made it first broadcast.
The country’s first private-owned television broadcasting came into being in November 1988 when the Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI) was put into operation for viewers in Jakarta and its vicinities. Following suit were the SCTV based in Surabaya, the TPI, Indosiar, and MetroTV. At the end of this year, some private owned televison broadcasting will be put into operation, among other things the TransTV.
As of 2000, TVRI is no longer a government run television broadcasting under the supervision of the Ministry of Information since it is now a public television broadcasting services.