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Kompas Gramedia is a major Indonesian media company. It engages in several businesses, predominantly mass media, as well as hospitality, manufacturing, and event organizing.

The company's businesses consist of multiple divisions, such as media assets (including the Kompas daily newspaper; the Kompas TV television network; the Sonora radio network; the Gramedia bookstore chain, the Santika Indonesia hospitality chain, Dyandra event organization firm, and Graha Bumi Hijau, a tissue paper manufacturer known for its flagship brand, Tessa.

After the success of the magazine Intisari (released 17 August 1963), Petrus Kanisius Ojong and Jakob Oetama launched a national newspaper called Kompas. The newspaper's first issue was released on 28 June 1965.

Their aim was to fill some of the huge gaps in daily news and information that existed at that time. Kompas has since become a large circulation newspaper with an audited circulation in 2005 of 600,000 copies a day. As the largest media company in Indonesia, the KGG operates the largest network printing service in Indonesia.

As of 2018, all media units of Kompas Gramedia is reorganized into one subsidiary, called KG Media.

PT Kompas Media Nusantara published Kompas, the national daily newspaper. Kompas began its first issue on 28 June 1965. Since 1969, Kompas has dominated sales nationwide. As of 2013, Kompas had an average circulation of 500,000 copies per day, reaching an average of 1,850,000 people per day. Kompas is not just regarded as the largest circulating newspaper in Indonesia but is also the largest circulating newspaper in Southeast Asia.

PT Grahanusa Mediatama published Kontan, the business and financial publication. Originally published in 1996 as a weekly newspaper (now called Tabloid Kontan), currently Kontan also published as a daily newspaper.

PT Indopersda Primamedia, more known as Tribun Network, is the local newspaper chain founded by Kompas Gramedia. Operating regional newspapers since 1988, the chain currently publishes 22 regional newspapers — some of them bearing the unified name Tribun — as well as a national sports newspaper Super Ball.

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