Bola (tabloid)

Bola (meaning Ball in Indonesian) was an Indonesia sports newspaper, published in Jakarta by Kompas Gramedia. It was founded in 1984 as a pull-out section inside Kompas daily, and was then published separately. In 1997, it moved to twice editions a week, and since 2010 it was published three editions a week. Issues usually had 48 pages (Monday and Thursday) and 32 pages (Saturday).

Starting 7 June 2013, Bola was also published its daily version, called Harian Bola (Bola Daily). The daily was short-lived, ceased publication on 31 October 2015 and moved back to three editions per week.

On 26 October 2018, the tabloid published its last issue — Bola brand currently only exists in its online portal Bolasport.com. Before its final issue, Kompas Gramedia published another daily sports newspaper Super Ball (under Tribun Network newspaper chain), which was first published in 2014 and is still in publication. The Super Ball online portal, which was originally a subdomain of Tribunnews.com, is currently become subdomain of Bola portal.^[1]

Tabloid[]

The last version of Bola covered a number of sporting competitions and events, including:

• The Indonesian Super League
• Various European Leagues and competitions, including Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Eredivisie
• Various international football leagues
• Formula One racing
• Grand Prix motorcycle racing
• Boxing
• Basketball
• Tennis
• Badminton
• The Olympic Games
• Various other sporting events, depending on on-going competitions

Key People[]

• Sumohadi Marsis
• Ignatius Sunito
• Ian Situmorang
• Lilianto Apriadi
• Arief Kurniawan
• Dedi Rinaldi
• Arief Natakusumah
• Eko Widodo
• Amien Rais
• Rano Karno
• Abdurrahman Wahid

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Indonesian)