Tycoon Chairul Tanjung agree to buy Agranet Multicitra Siberkom which operates Indonesia biggest news portal, detik.com for US$60 million.
Budiono Darsono, founder of detik.com, declined to comment about the price. "We negotiations with Chairul Tanjung for a long time, 2 years."
Detik.com was founded in 1998 by Budiono Darsono, Abdul Rahman, Yayan Sopyan, Calvin Lukmantara, and Didi Nugrahadi with initial capital IDR40 million.
Budiono and Abdul Rahman a former senior journalist at Tempo magazine. The portal was set up as the country’s first online media platform after the Detik tabloid, Budiono’s previous employer, and Tempo were liquidated by former President Suharto.
According to Alexa.com, which ranks Internet traffic and page view data, detik.com was as the 11th most popular Web site in Indonesia behind Facebook, Google, Blogger, Yahoo, YouTube, Kaskus, WordPress and Twitter. It ranked first in terms of news portals, followed by Vivanews and Kompas.
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