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Jakarta Post losing 8 journalists


The Grapevine says that The Jakarta Post is losing eight reporters, some to further education but others to the competition.

Among those the Post will be losing is Reiner Simanjuntak, the business editor to Forbes Indonesia that is being run by former Singapore Business Times correspondent Shoeb Kagda. The other poacher of Post talent, we are told, is research and lobby firm Van Zorge Heffernan.

In the meantime, rumors of a second English-language daily starting up soon are rife. But very few people seem to know who is behind it, except that one of the owners may be from a mining firm that has been in the news a lot lately and one of the editors used to work with Antara.

It looks like Daniel Rembeth, the new CEO of the Jakarta Post has his work cut out for him.

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2 responses to “Jakarta Post losing 8 journalists”

  1. A'an Suryana Avatar
    A’an Suryana

    The rumors are not true. The Jakarta Post is not losing eight journalists. Indeed we lose three to four in the couple of months, but others will return to the company after completing study, including me, who gets the opportunity to participare in a fellowship program conducted by Fulbright. Although we lose some reporters, it does not effect company operations at all. We have recruited 10 last year, and this year we will recruit more. We have opened the recruitment process this year, and already gathered over 250 applicants and from them, only 10 will be trained as new recruit with JP.
    We are a financially sound company. We booked billions of profit last year, and the amount of ads will increase this year, meaning that we will earn much bigger profit. We believe The Jakarta Post has brighter future.

    A’an

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  2. unspun Avatar
    unspun

    Please see my comment at the posting – Jakarta Post: and then there were nine? There was at no time any suggestion that the Jakarta Post was not doing well financially – why do you bring that up?

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