Sunday, April 24, 2011

Twitter and News Site of the Week

The Jakarta Post: Indonesia's largest daily English newspaper.



  •  Created in 1982 by the then minister of information Ali Moertopo and Mr. Jusuf Wanandi, who represented the government-backed Golkar newspaper Suara Karya.
  • Its mission is to "provide an Indonesian perspective to counter the highly unbalanced Western-dominated global traffic of news and views."
  • The Jakarta Post is "an independent newspaper institution privately owned by four competing media groups"


The Jakarta Globe is another English Indonesian newspaper and was launched in 2008. 

Their Twitter posts a variety of international headlines.  

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