Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Moh. Mahfud MD and Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Affairs (Polhukam) Djoko Suyanto when attending Republika 18th Anniversary held in Djakarta Theatre, Jakarta, Thursday (31/3) evening.
Jakarta, MKOnline - Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (The Court) Moh. Mahfud MD attended Republika’s 18th Anniversary held in Djakarta Theatre, Jakarta, Thursday (31/3) evening. Other than the Chief Justice, some figures were seen to attend the event namely; Minister of Women Empowering and Children Protection, Linda Gumelar also General Director of Republika Media Mandiri Co., Erick Thohir.
In his opening remarks, Erick Thohir stated that media industry could not only rely on one line of business especially when the industry was leading towards digitalization and convergent form. Because of that, entering its 18th years, Republika as the biggest media for Moslem community in Indonesia absolutely had to make use of the momentum for making changes.
“This is an important moment for Republika in the digitalization and convergence era which makes it impossible to stay in one line of business. We have to make great transformation,” announce Erick. So far, people only recognized Republika as a player in newspaper industry. However, now Republika had become a national Islamic content distribution company which consisted of web content, republika.co.id, Alif TV, and Republika Publishing.
Meanwhile, for the Chief Justice of The Court, his presence at this media anniversary celebration was not for the first time. He once attended the anniversary celebration for TVOne and ANTV. This would bring positive impacts for The Court because the presence of both electronic and printing media had helped the dissemination of information concerning The Court’s role in executing their constitutional duties and in building the constitutional awareness culture among the people (Nano Tresna A./mh/YDJ)
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