''Kedaulatan Rakyat'' (''People's Sovereignty'', abbreviated as ''KR'') is a daily newspaper in

Yogyakarta Yogyakarta (; jv, ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ ; pey, Jogjakarta) is the capital city of Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by a monarchy, ...

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. The paper was founded by H. Soemadi and M. Wonohito. The first edition of the newspaper was published on September 27, 1945. Initially, ''Kedaulatan Rakyat'' consisted of 16 pages. Recently, it has become the largest newspaper in

and southern Central Java, and circulates 125,000 copies. It is considered the first newspaper to be published after

Indonesian independence The Proclamation of Indonesian Independence ( id, Proklamasi Kemerdekaan Indonesia, or simply ''Proklamasi'') was read at 10:00 on Friday, 17 August 1945 in Jakarta. The declaration marked the start of the diplomatic and armed resistance of th ...

, as well as the oldest continuously published newspaper in Indonesia. Its motto is ''Suara Hati Nurani Rakyat'' (Voice of the People's Conscience).

History

''KR'' is the second newspaper to be published in Yogyakarta after the Javanese-language newspaper ''Sedya Tama'', was published biweekly. When ''Sedya Tama'' was banned by the Japanese, the Japanese army established a new newspaper called ''Sinar Matahari'' (Sunlight). Driven by the desire to publish an Indonesian-owned newspaper by the Indonesian government, after its independence H. Soemadi, M. Wonohito and ''Sinar Matahari'' staff members - who were mostly Indonesian - took over the paper and established a new daily called ''Kedaulatan Rakyat''. The phrase ''Kedaulatan Rakyat'' is taken from the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution.

External links

Official site

KR e-paper site
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