Antara (news agency)

Antara National News Agency Public Corporation

Native name	Perusahaan Umum Lembaga Kantor Berita Nasional Antara
Formerly	NV Kantor Berita Antara
Company type	Statutory corporation
Industry	News media
Founded	13 December 1937 (1937-12-13)
Founders	Adam Malik Soemanang Soerjowinoto A.M. Sipahoetar Pandu Kartawiguna
Headquarters	Central Jakarta, Jakarta , Indonesia
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Wire service
Revenue	Rp 133.2 billion (2010) Rp 137.8 billion (2009)
Operating income	Rp 3.702 billion (2010) Rp 25.92 billion (2009)
Net income	– Rp 0.813 billion (2010) Rp 1.659 billion (2009)
Owner	Government of Indonesia
Website	korporat.antaranews.com en.antaranews.com
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Antara is an Indonesian news agency organized as a statutory corporation.^[a] It is the country's national news agency, supplying news reports to many domestic media organizations. It is the only organization authorized to distribute news materials created by foreign news agencies.

The news agency was founded in 1937, when the country was still a colony in the Dutch Empire, by independence activists dissatisfied with the lack of local coverage by the Dutch-owned Aneta news agency. Antara's operation was absorbed into the Dōmei Tsushin news network following invasion by the Japanese in 1942. Its staff played a key role in the broadcast of Indonesia's proclamation of independence and assumed control of the Dōmei facilities in the region at the end of the war. The agency remained under private management until it was placed under the control of the presidency in the 1960s when the government shifted its focus from decolonization to nation-building. Antara became an institution through which the state could promote its policies.

Following a wave of political reforms in the late 1990s, Antara began to produce its reporting independently of the government and was reorganized as a state-owned enterprise in 2007. However, media scholars argue that a lengthy relationship with the government makes it difficult for the agency to become an unbiased news organization. Antara celebrated its 75th anniversary on 13 December 2012.^[3]

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