Seputar Indonesia, is Indonesia's longest running flagship newscast carried by a private television station. It appeared on RCTI on 15 November 1989 as Seputar Jakarta before it evolved to go nationwide on 15 November 1990. Since the end of 2005, the program has regained its position as the most-watched newscast in the country, according to ratings by Nielsen Media Research. During its early years, Seputar Indonesia was also carried by RCTI's then sister stationSCTV. On 9 February 2009, Seputar Indonesia was revived and was the only news program on RCTI, under an initiative called Satu Seputar Indonesia. The morning news program, Nuansa Pagi was renamed Seputar Indonesia Pagi. The lunchtime news program, Buletin Siang renamed Seputar Indonesia Siang. The late night news program, Buletin Malam was renamed Seputar Indonesia Malam. The main evening edition retained the Seputar Indonesia name due to the historical context. On 1 November 2017, along with rebranding that includes iNews brand for MNCTV and GTV newscasts, it was replaced by Seputar iNews. Historically, it was also broadcast by SCTV before the network would produce their own news program, Liputan 6 respectively.
Logo
On 15 November 1989, the Seputar Indonesia logo used only the phrase 'SEPUTAR JAKARTA' which was formerly the logo used on 15 November 1989 until 14 November 1990. On 15 November 1990, the Seputar Indonesia logo used only the phrase 'SEPUTAR INDONESIA' which was renamed and used from what was formerly named Seputar Jakarta by the logo was used on 15 November 1990 until 23 August 1996. On 24 August 1996, the Seputar Indonesia logo is closed by a circular red ring with word seputar INDONESIA by the logo was used on 24 August 1996 until 31 July 2002. On 1 August 2002, Seputar Indonesia replaced the logo with a blue ball closed rings was used until 24 August 2006. On 25 August 2006, the logo changed again into a ball bearing the front of RCTI by the logo continued to be used until 9 February 2009. On 9 February 2009, Seputar Indonesia relaunched the logo and was used until 31 October 2017. The logo is almost similar to the Mozilla Firefox logo.
