Name
Desi Anwar

Place/Date Of Birth
Bandung, Indonesia, 11 December 1962

Present Position
RCTI Assistant News Director, Executive-Producer, Anchor & Senior, Assistant News Director RCTI, Columnist Reporter

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

  • 1991 - Reporter internship at the United Nations, New York, USA
  • 1989 - Master of Arts (MA) Indonesian & Malay Literature School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, England
  • 1986 - London School of Publishing, Diploma on Copy editing
  • 1985 - Bachelor of Arts (BA) European Studies University of Sussex, England
  • 1983 - Course at the University of Sorbonne, Paris, France
  • 1974/1981 - Copthall Grammar School, London, England
WORK EXPERIENCE
  • 1997
    now Columnist for The Indonesian Observer Daily and The Mainichi
  • 1990
    now Anchor of the main news programmes an Interviewer for independent TV station RCTI

    Creator/Producer of RCTI nightnews "Buletin Malam" Producer of RCTI weekly special coverage "Liputan Khusus" Creator/Producer of RCTI weekly TV news magazine in English "Indonesia This Week" and the daily "Indonesian Today"

    Active as reporter and interviewer (have had exclusive interviews with various Heads of Governments/States and other international figures incl. President of China, Jiang Zemin, President of South Korea Kim Young Sam, Henry Kissinger, PM Australia Paul Keating, Lady Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, plus international celebrities eg Cindy Crawford

    Member of the Presidential Press Corp, travelling with the President of Republic Indonesia on state visits and World Summits (eg. various UN summits, APEC, NAM, and state visits to Iran, Tunisia, Croatia, Suriname etc)

    Contributor to CNN World Report and have travelled extensively as reporter and visiting journalist.

  • 1990
    Editor for the English Language Desk an Antara, the National News Agency
AWARDS
  • Nominee for Best News Anchor/Presenter in Asian Television Awards 1996
  • Best Anchor/Presenter in Citra Tabloid Viewers' Favourite Poll 1996
  • Nominee for Best News Anchor/Presenter in Panasonic Awards 1997