Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia, popularly known as RCTI, Indonesia's first privately-owned televisionnetwork based in Jakarta. RCTI first went on-air in August 1989 as a local station and had a nationwide license one year later. The station now has over than 50 transmission sites across the country reaching over 200 cities and towns. According to Nielsen Media Research, the network stays at number 1 in terms of audience share and advertising expenditures among Indonesia's 10 tv networks. RCTI, short for Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia, Indonesias first privately-owned television network based in Jakarta. ... A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is a U.S. firm, headquartered in New York City, and operating primarily from Oldsmar, FL, which measures media audiences, including television, radio and newspapers. ...
Indonesia, which has the world's largest Muslim population, is in the middle of its first direct presidential election just six years after the collapse of the Suharto dictatorship.
William Frej, director in Indonesia for the U.S. International Agency for Development, said, "Americans think they spend something like 10 percent of their budget on foreign aid, when the real figure is less than 1 percent." One aid program that is working, however, is a USAID initiative to modernize education across the Muslim world.
Ms Megawati is the daughter of Indonesia's founding father Sukarno, and has cast herself as the defender of the country's unity in the face of several separatist movements.