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35791
Mon, 12/15/2008 - 19:04
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ANTARA WINS ISO 9001:2000 CERTIFICATE
Jakarta, Dec 15 (ANTARA) - Indonesia's national news agency ANTARA has won an ISO 9001:2000 certificate from the World Quality Assurance (WQA).
The certificate was presented to ANTARA President Director Ahmad Mukhlis Yusuf at a ceremony to mark the agency's 71st anniversary at the Antara Building here on Monday.
Mukhlis Yusuf said ANTARA had sought to qualify for the ISO certificate as part of its commitment to an overall transformation of its management, especially in an effort to strengthen the process of news quality management as a reliable news agency for its business partners.
According to Mukhlis, the implementation of ISO 9001:2000 was one of the programs in the consolidation of its quality management system which was being developed since ANTARA became a state-owned company in accordance with Government Regulation No.40/2007.
"ANTARA will continue to go ahead with management transformation toward a world-class news agency as a strategic response to information globalization development, information technology changes, and even tighter media competition," he said.
Mukhlis said the management transformation was expected to be completed in 2012 when ANTARA sould be one of the leading news agencies in the Asia Pacific region.
"ANTARA's partnership with Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP, Xinhua, and other world's news agencies is expected to keep going in the cooperation of news provision and other information-based products," Mukhlis said.
He added that the transformation programs were a follow up to management transformation which was initiated by his predecessor Asro Kamal Rokan.
Mukhlis said the management transformation was focused on the strengthening of the three pilars of ANTARA, namely the strengthening of organization management system at the corporate level and working units; performance-based corporate culture through balanced score-card implementation; and business revitalization to strengthen ANTARA's autonomy through the strengthening of newsroom and multi canal diversification, multi platform and multi brand.
Besides the presentation of the ISO certificate, a memorandum of understanding between ANTARA and Yahoo was also singed at the news agency's 71th anniversary function.
The certificate was presented to ANTARA President Director Ahmad Mukhlis Yusuf at a ceremony to mark the agency's 71st anniversary at the Antara Building here on Monday.
Mukhlis Yusuf said ANTARA had sought to qualify for the ISO certificate as part of its commitment to an overall transformation of its management, especially in an effort to strengthen the process of news quality management as a reliable news agency for its business partners.
According to Mukhlis, the implementation of ISO 9001:2000 was one of the programs in the consolidation of its quality management system which was being developed since ANTARA became a state-owned company in accordance with Government Regulation No.40/2007.
"ANTARA will continue to go ahead with management transformation toward a world-class news agency as a strategic response to information globalization development, information technology changes, and even tighter media competition," he said.
Mukhlis said the management transformation was expected to be completed in 2012 when ANTARA sould be one of the leading news agencies in the Asia Pacific region.
"ANTARA's partnership with Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP, Xinhua, and other world's news agencies is expected to keep going in the cooperation of news provision and other information-based products," Mukhlis said.
He added that the transformation programs were a follow up to management transformation which was initiated by his predecessor Asro Kamal Rokan.
Mukhlis said the management transformation was focused on the strengthening of the three pilars of ANTARA, namely the strengthening of organization management system at the corporate level and working units; performance-based corporate culture through balanced score-card implementation; and business revitalization to strengthen ANTARA's autonomy through the strengthening of newsroom and multi canal diversification, multi platform and multi brand.
Besides the presentation of the ISO certificate, a memorandum of understanding between ANTARA and Yahoo was also singed at the news agency's 71th anniversary function.
