PT Indosiar Visual Mandiri, owned by
Salim Group, started its first broadcast on
January 11, 1995.
According to Wikipedia! The first time the Indonesian public witnessed the demonstration of television was in 1955, 29 years after its introduction in 1926, and 26 years after the world's first television broadcast was made in 1929. These first televisions were brought from the Soviet Union during the Yogyakarta 200 years anniversary fair.
The first experimental TV broadcast was the live coverage of the celebration of the 17th Anniversary of Indonesia's Independence on the morning August 17, 1962, from Jakarta's Merdeka Palace.