Kompas taps BBDO and Proximity

JAKARTA - Kompas Gramedia, Indonesia's largest media conglomerate, has appointed BBDO and Proximity to handle communications for the launch of the online news portal Kompas.com.

The Omnicom agencies saw off competition from four other local agencies to secure the business, with a brief to strengthen the Kompas brand in the digital space.

Taufik H Mihardja, Kompas.com's executive director, said: “The concept presented to us best fits our communication need for this market. We hope that together with BBDO & Proximity Indonesia, Kompas.com‘s objective of becoming the biggest and most comprehensive portal in Indonesia can be achieved."

Kompas.com is the latest incarnation of what was Kompas Online, a portal for news and e-commerce for Kompas Gramedia's flagship newspaper, Kompas Daily.