Private company

Kompas Gramedia Group

Logo: Kompas Gramedia, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Indonesian holding company

Kompas Gramedia is a major Indonesian media company. It engages in several businesses, predominantly mass media, as well as hospitality, manufacturing, and event organizing. The company's businesses consist of multiple divisions, such as media assets (including the Kompas daily newspaper; the Kompas TV television network; the Sonora radio network; the Gramedia bookstore chain, the Santika Indonesia hospitality chain, Dyandra event organization firm, and Graha Bumi Hijau, a tissue paper manufacturer known for its flagship brand, Tessa.2 It was founded by P. K. Ojong.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

Jun 28, 1965Founded1

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Kompas Gramedia
Photo: Cun Cun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Kompas Gramedia is a major Indonesian media company. It engages in several businesses, predominantly mass media, as well as hospitality, manufacturing, and event organizing.2

Corporate structure

Kompas Gramedia Group sits at the top of its group. 49 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Kompas Gramedia Group reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Founded by P. K. Ojong on Jun 28, 1965.1

After the success of the magazine Intisari (released 17 August 1963), Petrus Kanisius Ojong and Jakob Oetama launched a national newspaper called Kompas. The newspaper's first issue was released on 28 June 1965.

Their aim was to fill some of the huge gaps in daily news and information that existed at that time. Kompas has since become a large circulation newspaper with an audited circulation in 2005 of 600,000 copies a day. As the largest media company in Indonesia, the KGG operates the largest network printing service in Indonesia.

From Wikipedia’s article on Kompas Gramedia Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Leadership

Who has led Kompas Gramedia Group, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • mass media

Listed on Wikidata.1

Tribun Network

PT Indopersda Primamedia, more known as Tribun Network, is the local newspaper chain founded by Kompas Gramedia. Operating regional newspapers since 1988, the chain currently publishes 22 regional newspapers — some of them bearing the unified name Tribun — as well as a national sports newspaper Super Ball.

Warta Kota

Warta Kota (The City News) is a daily Indonesian morning newspaper published in Jakarta, Indonesia, serving the Jabodetabek area. It is in a broadsheet format and published by PT Metrogema Media Nusantara, a subsidiary of Kompas Gramedia (KG), and part of The Tribun Network.

Warta Kota began publication after the Ministry of Information under the B.J. Habibie administration relaxed the procedures for applying for a business license (SIUPP) for print media. Indonesia's national newspaper, Kompas (a subsidiary of KG), up until 1998, had designated only two pages per issue for news in Jakarta and its surroundings which were mostly filled with advertisements, even though the newspaper was published in Jakarta. To fill this void, Warta Kota was created. Warta Kota was first published on May 3, 1999, amid the 1999 general election campaign.

Hospitality business

Since 1981, Kompas Gramedia Group spread to the hospitality business, under PT Grahawita Santika.

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In 2026, Santika faced criticism from animal welfare organizations regarding its continued use of battery cages. Advocacy groups have called on the company to implement higher welfare standards, noting that several competitors have already committed to phasing out similar practices. The issue has been highlighted in consumer awareness campaigns and media reports.

From Wikipedia’s article on Kompas Gramedia Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

All 46 subsidiaries

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. 2001Acquired Trans71

Timeline

  1. Jun 28, 1965Founded Founded1

Sources

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