The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Indonesia’s public radio broadcaster Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to a share commitment in serving their national audiences with informative, educational and entertaining content and services.

RRI President Director Hendrasmo and ABC International Head Claire M. Gorman signed the agreement at the ABC offices in Sydney (pictured) with senior leadership from RRI and ABC International in attendance. The agreement strengthens the relationship between the ABC and RRI through content sharing across programming, training of teams and personnel, media capacity building and the exchange of technical information.

ABC International Head Claire M. Gorman said:

“We are proud to be partnering with RRI in this next chapter with future opportunities for collaborative endeavours through content and information exchange. This MOU expresses our mutual commitments as public broadcasters and the shared understanding of how we can best fulfil our obligations to our audiences across the region.”

President Director of RRI Hendrasmo added:

“In this era of disruption, the key word is collaboration. We want to strengthen our institution, both in terms of content and human resources. This is one of the reasons why we are collaborating with the ABC. Moreover, developing human resources is our current priority, as we aim to remain strong and resilient in facing the era of change that is causing the media to experience difficult times.”

Radiodays Asia 2024, over the border of Indonesia in Malaysia at the Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur is on from September 2-4 2024. Representatives from Indonesia, and others form all over Asia will be attending the conference to learn about the latest in radio, podcasting and latest trends in AI and Sustainability.