TVRI Jakarta


TVRI Jakarta is a regional public television station owned by TVRI, serving Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia and surrounding areas. TVRI Jakarta studios are located in Jalan Gerbang Pemuda, Central Jakarta, the same place as the TVRI national headquarters.
The station broadcasts on both analog and digital terrestrial, as well as on TVRI website's live streaming and TVRI Klik app.

History

The station was established in April 1989 as Programa 2 TVRI, about four months before the airing of the first Indonesian private television station RCTI. The station is primarily serving Jakarta region from the very beginning, in the early years it was airing more urban-oriented programming than TVRI main channel. The single first program to broadcast was English-language news Six Thirty Report for half an hour at 18:30 WIB, under the responsibility of the News section. The program later becomes English News Service, which still exists to this day on TVRI Nasional.
Starting in 2007, Programa 2 changed its name TVRI Jakarta. Later the station changed its name again to TVRI Jakarta & Banten, and as of 30 March 2019, the name changed back to TVRI Jakarta.

Programming

In analog terrestrial, instead of acting as an opt-out local programming on TVRI Nasional, TVRI Jakarta is acting as a separate local channel from the very first broadcast. This kind of system is created so that the viewers had a choice between the TVRI national and regional channel. The system later implemented in the digital terrestrial broadcast of all TVRI regional stations, where the stations ideally has its own channel and did not need to opt-out from TVRI Nasional.
TVRI Jakarta programming included its local newscasts, Jakarta Hari Ini, which airs daily at 16.00 WIB.