The Jakarta Globe has won an award for business reporting from one of Asia’s most prestigious journalism organizations.
The Society of Publishers in Asia on Thursday night gave the Globe its award for Excellence in Business Reporting for our series last year on the collapse of the Tripanca Group.
Over two weeks in November, Globe Business Editor Roffie Kurniawan and reporters Ardian Wibisono, Arientha Primanita and Kafil Yamin investigated and explained events surrounding Tripanca Group’s failure to pay creditors for thousands of tons of coffee beans being stored by the group. This panicked depositors at BPR Tripanca, the group’s banking arm, who withdrew their assets en masse from the bank’s vaults.
The SOPA judges singled out the Globe’s coverage as the best business reporting among the local newspapers category. The annual Awards for Editorial Excellence are open to newspapers across Asia, and the Globe beat off strong competition in the category from The Straits Times, South China Morning Post and publications from Australia, Thailand and Malaysia.
“We are grateful to be honored, and really happy. We were only publishing for six weeks in 2008, but our journalists did a great job,” said deputy editor Bhimanto Suwastoyo, who received the award at a gala dinner in Hong Kong.
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That's something to be proud of, I think.
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