Voice of Indonesia

Infobox Network
network_name = Voice of Indonesia (VOI)
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country = Indonesia
network_type = shortwave radio, online
available = International
owner =
key_people =
launch_date = 11 September 1945
founder =
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past_names = Voice of Free Indonesia (1945-1950)
website = http://www.voi.co.id/

Voice of Indonesia (VOI) is an autonomous division under Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI). The organization is a public broadcasting service. It is a national radio station that broadcast all over Indonesia and abroad to serve all Indonesian citizens anywhere in the country and abroad. RRI also provides information about Indonesia to people around the world. Voice of Indonesia is the division for abroad broadcasting. As an autonomous division, VOI has its own independent structure so it can find their own financial resources thru marketing.

History

When Indonesia declared its independence on 17 August 1945, the new country needed an effective tool to announce its declaration of independence to the whole nation and to the world audience. At that time, Radio broadcasting was the most powerful media in order to deliver the message to reach the audience around the world. To carry out this mission, the new Republic of Indonesia took over the former Dutch Colonial Government Radio station and The Voice of Indonesia began. The Indonesian broadcasting across the world was named Voice of Free Indonesia. On 11 September 1945, the radio station became Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI), the head organization of Voice of Indonesia. In 1950, The Voice of Free Indonesia became The Voice of Indonesia. [ [http://www.voi.co.id/profile/2/ Voice of Indonesia - Background] ]

During the early days of Indonesian independence, radio broadcasting played an important role in sending the new nation's message to overseas audiences, which helped other nations recognize the sovereignty of Indonesia .

Operations

The target audience of VOI was recently mentioned as ‘general audience’. Generally, there are two types of audience: Indonesian people abroad and all the people across the globe. Today, VOI serves people abroad in 11 different languages. It has several programs that broadcast in English, French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, Japanese, Malaysia, Thai, and Indonesian.

Each language broadcasts 2 hours of programming a day with total of 13 hours for the whole language broadcasting. There are four main programs of VOI: News and Information, Rhythm of Archipelago; program about Indonesian music, Getting to know Indonesia; program about unique and typical culture of the country, and the Archipelago Sketches; program about regional autonomy policy that implements throughout the country. These programs are first produced in Indonesian language and then translated into 11 different languages. The content of all foreign language programs are practically the same. [Afgiansyah (2007) "Repositioning VOI". The Hague: The Hague University ]

VOI broadcasts abroad using short wave frequencies 9525, 11785 and 15150 KHz, which it has used since it first went on the air. [ [http://www.voi.co.id/profile/6/ Voice of Indonesia - Quick Facts] ]

Although shortwave broadcasting is the main core to deliver its product, VOI also operates a web site at [http://www.voi.co.id www.voi.co.id] . Within the web site, audience may find written news in 11 different languages, as well as live streaming radio service which is started on 1 April 2008. However, the streaming service is not as fully functioned as the shortwave broadcasting.

References

External links

* [http://www.voi.co.id/ Voice of Indonesia website]