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In 1961, the Indonesian government decided to include the establishment of a national television station as part of the preparations for the 1962 Asian Games to be held in Jakarta. Later that year, the Television Preparation Committee was formed. In October, President Sukarno ordered the building of a studio in Senayan, Jakarta and two television towers. TVRI broadcast its first test transmission, of the Indonesian Independence Day celebrations from the Merdeka Palace transmission on August 17th, 1962. TVRI went on the air with a television set broadcasting stations started Sign-on transmission first on air launched coverage live from the television broadcasting studios event of the 1962 Asian Games opening ceremony on August 24, 1962 under the official name of Televisi Indonesia (TV Indonesia). Two years later, the first of the regional broadcast stations opened in Yogyakarta, Semarang, Medan, Surabaya, Makassar, Manado, Batam, Palembang, Bali and Balikpapan.
In 1974 TVRI became part of the Information Ministry, with the status of a directorate. Its role was to inform the public about government policies.
The first colour television signal was transmitted via a satellite transmission, it took place in 1974. The first colour news bulletin actual coverage standard main information news programmes being the Berita Nasional (National News), Berita Dalam Dunia (News in the World), breaking events segments on Laporan Khusus (Special Report)) and Berita Terakhir (Late News). Subsequently, the first live colour telecast was of the 1974 FIFA World Cup between West Germany and Chile form opening ceremony on June 13, 1974 to final between West Germany and Netherlands from the closing ceremony on July 7, 1974.
TVRI in the late 1970s and 1980s became a well defined mass media component of the national information department. By that time it also had a second channel on Channel 8.
In 1989, TVRI lost its monopoly when the government's sixth Five-Year Plan allowed private television stations to begin broadcasting. the first commercial television station being RCTI.
After the start of the reform era, TVRI's status was changed again and it became responsible firstly to the Ministry of Finance and was then turned into a limited company under the authority of the State Ministry for State-Owned Enterprises and Ministry of Finance.