Helmi Johannes (born 23 March 1961) is an Indonesian television
newscaster and executive producer. Helmi Johannes now works for the
Indonesian service of the Voice of America (VOA), based in Washington,
DC. Helmi is responsible for the overall production, program
development, talent and day-to-day operations of VOA Indonesian
television programming.Helmi Johannes was born in Yogyakarta,
Indonesia, the son of Herman Johannes, an Indonesian professor and a
former rector of the Gadjah Mada University. In the 1950s his father
moved from Rote Island to Yogyakarta on Java Island where his father
rose to local prominence as an educator and one of the founders of the
Gadjah Mada University; and a thoroughfare connecting the business
area of Yogyakarta and the university campus is named in his
honor.Helmi Johannes spent all his school years in Yogyakarta and
attended the SMA 1 Teladan High School in the Wirobrajan area of the
city. He was attracted to radio communications and became an amateur
radio when he was a teenager but he then attended the architectural
engineering faculty at the Gadjah Mada University before turning to
journalism.Helmi Johannes started his career as a radio broadcaster
for Geronimo FM based in Yogyakarta, before moving to Jakarta to join
RCTI, the first private television network in Indonesia. In 1989,
Helmi Johannes helped found Seputar Indonesia (then Seputar Jakarta),
the first newscast ever carried by an Indonesian private station.
During his career with RCTI, Helmi Johannes served as reporter,
producer, newscaster and news production manager. Helmi had also
produced Indonesia's first late-night newscast Buletin Malam (1991)
and also Indonesia Today, the first English-language newscast aired by
RCTI (1996â€"1999). Helmi Johannes Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter