About Salam Indonesia

Salam Indonesia

Overview

Salam Indonesia is a weekly Indonesian-language community television program produced in Toronto, Ontario, for the Indonesian diaspora in Canada. It airs as a 30-minute program on OMNI.2 — the CJMT-DT service of Rogers' OMNI Television — where published program guides list it in several time slots each week among OMNI's long-running slate of third-language community programs. TV Passport's listings for the program, current at the time of writing in October 2026, show multiple airings across the week and mark an upcoming episode as "New," indicating the program remains in active production. The program's own description, carried in television guides, calls it "a weekly 30-minute program dedicated to showcasing the vibrant culture, traditions and achievements of the Indonesian community or diaspora in Canada." Its website, salamindonesia.ca, presents the same mission in fuller form: "to celebrate and preserve Indonesian culture by sharing stories, hosting events, and building a strong community for Indonesia diaspora in Canada." The site bills the program as "The Spirit of Indonesian Culture and Communities in Canada" and invites visitors to "explore Indonesian culture and heritage" through stories and insights celebrating Indonesian and community achievements in this country. For a comparatively small diaspora community, Salam Indonesia gives Indonesian Canadians something Canadian television has rarely offered them: a recurring program in their own language, made in Canada, about their own community.

History

Salam Indonesia is a recent addition to Canadian ethnic television. Its web presence dates to late 2024 — the earliest materials on its website were published in the autumn and December of that year, its production contact address was created under the name Jakarta Productions in 2024, and OMNI.2 program guides from December 2024 already list the program in the schedule, where it has remained through the current October 2026 listings. The sense of novelty is echoed by voices within the community itself: a testimonial published on the program's website from Toronto restaurateur Jeane Wotulo exclaims, "After 40 years, we finally have a TV program in the Indonesian language in Canada, what an achievement!" — a remark the program presents as a measure of how long Indonesian Canadians waited for a dedicated television voice. Because the program publishes no founding account beyond these materials, this profile dates its emergence to late 2024 on the evidence of its own website and contemporary program guides, and asserts no earlier history for it.

Programming and Content

Each edition of Salam Indonesia is a half-hour magazine-style program built around the life of the Indonesian community in Canada. According to the program, its content spans cultural stories, community event coverage and educational material about Indonesian traditions — in its own words, "captivating cultural stories," "inspirational event updates" and "insightful tradition resources." Community members are invited to send in video of their own activities for broadcast, which makes the program partly a community bulletin as well as a produced show: the website explicitly asks viewers to "send your community activities video" to the production team. The program also profiles community figures and organisations; its website carries endorsements from leaders of Indonesian diaspora bodies in Canada, including Tunggul Tobing, identified there as President of the IDN (Indonesian Diaspora Network) Chapter Canada, and Rudy Purwanto, identified as Chairman of ALZI Chapter Toronto. On OMNI.2, Salam Indonesia sits in a schedule of peer community programs serving other diasporas — Bangla, Tamil, Somali, Arabic, Persian, Filipino and many more — in the multicultural block-programming tradition that OMNI Television has followed in the Toronto market for decades.

Audience and Reach

The program's audience is Canada's Indonesian diaspora, concentrated in the Greater Toronto Area, which the OMNI.2 signal and cable carriage reach directly, and which the program's Toronto production base reflects. Indonesia's diaspora in Canada is modest in size beside the country's largest immigrant communities, which is precisely why a dedicated program is significant: the community has historically been served by consular events, community associations, religious congregations and social media rather than by Canadian broadcast media. The program's own website offers a sense of the community network it claims to reach, stating — as the program's own figures, not independently audited numbers — that its dedication to community building "is reflected in our network of over 5000 enthusiastic members," and that it has "over 1,000 followers on our social media platforms." As an OMNI.2 program, its potential reach is the channel's full distribution footprint in its market; OMNI.2 is a licensed over-the-air service carried on cable systems in the Toronto area and available through Rogers' platforms. No independent audience measurement for the program is published, and none is claimed in this profile.

Digital Presence

The program's digital home is salamindonesia.ca, a website that introduces the show and its team, showcases community stories, and invites participation. Its homepage is organised around community voices, carrying a section of testimonials under the heading "Community Voices: Celebrating Connections and Stories," in which members of the diaspora describe how the program has connected them; the site says these stories "highlight our commitment to cultural preservation and connection." The program also states a forward agenda on the site — it says it is "planning to successfully organize over 100 events, fostering a sense of community and cultural appreciation" — a statement of the program's own ambition, presented here as such rather than as a record of completed events. The site carries testimonials from community members, a statement of mission, and the program's production contact for community video submissions. Beyond its website, the program maintains the social media presence it describes on its own pages, where it promotes episodes and community activities to its followers. The broadcast itself remains the centre of the operation: current television listings (TV Passport, checked October 2026) continue to schedule the program several times a week on OMNI.2, including weekend and weekday slots, with at least one upcoming airing flagged as a new episode — the clearest available evidence that production is ongoing rather than a loop of old repeats.

Ownership and Organisation

Salam Indonesia is an independently produced community program rather than a Rogers in-house production: it is made by its own production team and placed in the OMNI.2 schedule, the same independently-produced community-program model used by many of OMNI's third-language shows. The team named on the program's website is led by Riza Rachmadsyah as Executive Producer, described there as "dedicated to crafting compelling content that celebrates Indonesian heritage and engages the community." Sofia Makmoen serves as Production Director, Alfi Ichwanditio as Creative Director, Astrid Sanjoto as Marketing Director, Handrazfil Golvan as Director, and Haswati Basri as Operation Director, responsible, in the site's words, for "efficiency and the smooth execution of our show's vision." The team's production contact is published under the name Jakarta Productions. The program's website also presents its team's background as community rather than purely commercial media work, noting that "our team has over 10 years of cultural engagement" in the Indonesian community — a claim made by the program itself and presented here as such.

Contact and Availability

Salam Indonesia can be seen on OMNI.2 (CJMT-DT) in the Toronto market, where television guides list the 30-minute program in several slots each week; viewers should consult current OMNI.2 listings for exact times, as community-program slots rotate. The program's website is salamindonesia.ca, and community members can reach the production team — including to submit video of community activities — through the production email address published on the site, jakartaproductions2024@gmail.com. In keeping with this directory's policy, the program's public business email field in this listing is left empty.