Tribun Network

In the late 1980s, the Department of Information asked major newspapers to assist minor local newspapers which were hampered by the press permit (SIUPP) problem. The government restricted advertisement space to 30% of all content for newspapers not aiding minor papers.^[1]

In 1987, Kompas Gramedia took over the ownership of the Sriwijaya Post in Palembang, and established the subsidiary PT Indopersda Primamedia (Persda) to assist regional newspapers in need. In 1988, Kompas Gramedia took over Mimbar Swadaya a weekly newspaper in Banda Aceh, to rebranding to Serambi Indonesia, and the weekly newspaper Surya in Surabaya, which began publishing daily. Kompas Gramedia took over the Pos Kupang daily in 1992, and in 1994, the Banjarmasin Post.^{[2][user-generated source]}

Persda later strengthened its business by publishing its own regional newspapers in other cities under the Tribun brand. The first newspaper to hold the brand Tribun Kaltim was first published in 2003 in Balikpapan; followed by Tribun Timur (Makassar), Tribun Jabar (Bandung), among others.

In 2010, Persda rebranded to Tribun Network, and launched the unified tribunnews.com online portal.^[3]

In 2014, Tribun Network published a national-oriented sports newspaper Super Ball^[4] as a spin-off for the football section of its newspaper members. Its online portal, which was originally a subdomain of Tribunnews.com, is currently a subdomain of Bolasport.com.^[5]

Tribunnews.com is Tribun Network's online news portal, with the chain's newspapers publishing in via subdomains.

Tribunnews.com was the most popular nationally hosted website in Indonesia in 2018, with 183.2 million visits per month.^{[6][dead link]} It was 38th in the world's most popular websites by traffic as of April 16, 2020^[update].^{[7][dead link]}

In January 2019, Tribunnews.com was among the seven Indonesian online media with the highest viewership, reaching 150 million Indonesians, or 56% of the population.^[8]