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Indonesian name
Indonesian names and naming customs reflect the multicultural and multilingual nature of the over 17,000 islands in the Indonesian archipelago. The world's fourth most populous nation, Indonesia is home to more than 1300 ethnic groups, each with t ...
, and the person should be referred by the given name, Ging.''
Ging Ginanjar (died 20 January 2019)
was an Indonesian journalist instrumental in securing freedom of the press during the transition to
Post-Suharto Indonesia.
Ging started his career in journalism at the tabloid Detik (which was banned by the
Suharto
Suharto (; ; 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto ...
regime in 1994 and reborn later as
detik.com
Detikcom (stylized as detikcom) is an Indonesian digital media company owned by CT Corp subsidiary Trans Media. Detikcom is an online news portal and publishes breaking news. The portal is consistently ranked among Indonesia's 10 most-visited w ...
) in the early 1990s. In late 1994 he co-founded the
Alliance of Independent Journalists
The Alliance of Independent Journalists ( id, Aliansi Jurnalis Independen, abbreviated as AJI) is an Indonesian organization that promotes press freedom in the country.
The AJI was founded in 1994 by Satrio Arismunandar, Ahmad Taufik, Goenawan Moh ...
.
He was jailed after participating in demonstrations in 1998.
After the fall of Suharto, Ging worked at
KBR, an independent news agency formed in the wake of the transition, and then at
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service con ...
, and eventually at
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, where he worked until his death in January 2019.
He died in January 2019 at the age of 55.