Adkasi and LKBN ANTARA establish news cooperation partnership
Jakarta — The Association of District Regional Representative Councils (Adkasi) and state-owned enterprise LKBN ANTARA have established a cooperation agreement in the field of news reporting to amplify the voices and aspirations of regional governments.
“Alhamdulillah, we have now established a memorandum of understanding between Adkasi and ANTARA. Whilst we represent the people, ANTARA reports on the people and their representatives,” said Adkasi Chairman Siswanto during a podcast with ANTARA TV in Jakarta on Monday.
Siswanto stated that the collaboration will create a sustained news channel to communicate the activities of regional government representatives through Adkasi across all provincial representations.
“The reporting on the people and their representatives will now work in synergy, so that ANTARA, representing the people through its reporting, will be properly connected. Our hope is that Indonesian voices are not only heard from the capital, not just from the nation’s capital,” he said.
The partnership, he noted, can serve as an inclusive bridge connecting various Adkasi representations, comprising 37 provincial delegations and 415 district-level delegations.
Adkasi’s role includes enhancing human resources capacity at the regional government level with the mission of unifying diverse interests towards common objectives. The organisation represents 17,510 district-level representatives from various backgrounds.
“These diverse representatives must be united. This is where the association’s function lies — to accommodate district-level representatives and align them towards common goals, which we achieve through capacity building,” Siswanto explained.
Adkasi has also established a collaboration with the National Resilience Institute (Lemhannas) of the Republic of Indonesia to conduct a leadership consolidation course for regional leaders, scheduled for 14 April 2026 at the Military Academy in Magelang.
“We have already agreed with Lemhannas RI to implement the regional leadership consolidation course,” he added.