PT Indosiar Visual Mandiri, commonly known as Indosiar, is an Indonesian over-the-air television broadcaster, established on 19 July 1991, with test broadcasts commencing on 18 December 1994, and officially launching on 11 January 1995. It has been owned by Emtek since 2011; it eventually operated under its subsidiary, Surya Citra Media (owner of SCTV) since 1 May 2013, with the network's original owner, Indosiar Karya Media, absorbed into SCM.

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Indosiar
PT Indosiar Visual Mandiri

Current logo since late 2014, being the revision of the 1995 logo, which still based on the TVB logo.
Type	Television broadcaster
Country	Indonesia
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	Indosiar Television Centre Building, Jalan Damai 11, Daan Mogot, Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta
Programming
Language(s)	Indonesian
Picture format	1080i HDTV 16:9 (downscaled to 576i 16:9 for the SDTV and PAL feed)
Ownership
Owner	Salim Group (1991–2004) Indosiar Karya Media (2004–2013) Surya Citra Media (2013–present)
Sister channels	Elshinta TV (2005–2013) SCTV (2011–present) Moji (2011–present) Ajwa TV (2020–present) Mentari TV (2021–present)
History
Founded	19 July 1991 (1991-07-19)
Launched	18 December 1994 (1994-12-18) (Trial broadcast) 11 January 1995; 29 years ago (1995-01-11) (Official broadcast)
Founder	Sudono Salim Anthony Salim Eko Supardjo Rustam[1]
Links
Website	www.indosiar.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital	Check local frequencies (in Indonesian language)
Streaming media
Vidio	Watch live
IndiHome TV	Watch live (IndiHome customers only)

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Its claimed audience share for September 2008 was 16.2% of viewers.^[2] By December 2009 this share had shrunk to 11.6%.^[3] Indosiar broadcasts Indonesian soccer sports such as BRI Liga 1,^[4] and the Indonesia President's Cup. along with other world sports broadcast.

Indosiar currently uses a HDTV 16:9 and SDTV 16:9 as the main aspect ratios, replacing 4:3 from 30 November 2021. Indosiar started a HDTV service in 2017, available on Nex Parabola. Indosiar also has DVB-T2 nationwide broadcast feeds on the encrypted-transponder at Telkom-4 since 2021.

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Indosiar was officially launched on 11 January 1995.^[5] The next day, the first independent film to be premiered was Sesal, directed by Sophan Sophiaan.^[6][7][8] Two years after, it started airing the musical series Melangkah Di Atas Awan (A Walk in the Clouds).^[9]