![]() His media empire and ambitions earned him the nickname, "the Rupert Murdoch of Indonesia". In 1996, Gontha purchased a controlling stake in the English-language daily newspaper, The Indonesian Observer and developed SCTV's news and current affairs show Liputan 6. ![]() Gontha was a shareholder and spokesman for PT Matahari Lintas Cakrawala (Malicak), which persuaded the government to allow CNN and ESPN to start broadcasting in Indonesia in mid-1992, despite initially facing opposition from the Information Ministry. Gontha co-founded Indonesia's second commercial television network, Surya Citra Televisi ( SCTV) in 1990, followed by satellite pay TV company Indovision in 1994. He developed the network's image through quality programming, such as the news and current affairs show Seputar Jakarta (later renamed Seputar Indonesia), which was modeled on the style of CNN's news programs. Gontha founded Indonesia’s first commercial television network, Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia ( RCTI), in 1989 as part of Bimantara Group. In Indonesia, he was vice president of Bimantara Citra Group, a conglomerate founded in 1981 by former president Suharto’s middle son Bambang Trihatmodjo and TPI's founder Tutut's husband Indra Rukmana, along with their partner Rosano Barack and Mochammad Tachril Sapi'ie. He later became vice president of American Express Bank for Asia. He received his degree in Finance Accounting and Business Administration in 1972.įrom 1975 to 1979, Gontha worked for Citibank N.A., where he became assistant vice president. Shell provided him with a scholarship to study accounting at the Praehap Institute in the Netherlands. In 1970, he started work for Shell Benelux Computer Center. After saving $9,000, he returned to Indonesia. He also found employment as a sailor and worked for the Holland-America Line cruise company. After attending Jakarta's Kanisius College, he was in 1967 sent by his mother to the Netherlands, where he worked as a driver for the Indonesian Embassy and for Garuda Indonesia in Amsterdam. Gontha was born in Semarang, Central Java, to Victor Willem ‘Wim’ Gontha and Alice.
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