Indonesia Shang Bao (印度尼西亞商報) is a Mandarin-language daily newspaper published in Jakarta, Indonesia, covering business, finance, politics, and international news. Founded on April 17, 2000, it was the first Chinese-language daily established in Indonesia following the collapse of President Suharto’s New Order government in May 1998. Under Suharto, who ruled from 1967 until his resignation that year, all Chinese-language education and private media were banned, making the paper’s founding a marker of the post-authoritarian reform era. The paper was previously part of the Bisnis Indonesia Group, which launched it through a subsidiary, PT Aksara Warta Mandarin, before subsequently divesting its majority stake; its current ownership structure is not publicly confirmed. The paper publishes at least 20 pages daily. According to the World Chinese Media Cooperation Alliance (世界華文媒體合作聯盟) member directory, it also publishes The GEO Time, an Indonesian-language weekly magazine, and has since 2013 reproduced content from Beijing’s Life Times (生命時報) on health and medical topics. In May 2026, a new media operations director of the paper participated in the 2026 Overseas Chinese-Language Media Jiangxi Tour (2026海外華文媒體江西行), a state-organized reporting tour in Jiangxi Province, China.
