Ownership & Funding
This page says who owns Wisata Hits and where our income comes from. In a media market where the ownership of a news site is often the most interesting thing about it, we would rather you did not have to guess about ours.
Last updated: August 2026.
Who owns this site
Wisata Hits is published by a small private company owned by the founding editors, registered where they live and work. There is no holding company above it, no group of titles it belongs to, no silent shareholder, and no outside investor with a board seat or a veto. The people who decide what we publish are the people who own the company, which is the main reason we can keep the policies on this page.
We do not reproduce the registration certificate here, because the filing carries the home addresses of people who cover courts and police matters. If you are assessing us formally, as a platform or a prospective advertiser might, write to support@wisatahits.blog and we will answer questions about the structure. Our about page explains how the site started and who does what, by role.
No state money, no party, no candidate
We take nothing from any government body, in Indonesia or anywhere else. That includes the arrangement most common here: a ministry, a provincial administration or a state-owned enterprise buying a package of friendly articles under a cooperation agreement. Those offers reach us and we decline them, which is why there is no page of ministry advertorials on this site.
We are not affiliated with a political party, a candidate, a campaign organisation, a religious body or a business group. We do not accept election-season money for coverage or for paid influencer work, and we take no funding from foreign embassies or state media programmes. No shareholder of the publishing company holds office or works for a campaign.
Where the money comes from
Advertising is our primary income and, in most months, close to all of it. That splits into display sold directly to advertisers, display inventory filled by the programmatic exchanges that buy what we have not sold ourselves, and newsletter sponsorship. The rules those sales run under, including the categories we refuse, are published on our advertise page.
Two smaller streams sit behind it. We earn affiliate commission on some travel and product links, disclosed where the link appears, and the commission never decides what we review or how a review turns out. We occasionally license text or photographs to other publishers. There is no paywall, no subscription and no donation button today. If we ever add reader support, this page will say so before we launch it.
How advertising is kept away from the desk
Commercial conversations happen in a separate thread from editing, and the commercial side has no access to unpublished work. No advertiser sees a story before publication, no advertiser is told a story is coming, and no editor is measured on advertising outcomes. Nobody here has the authority to hold, soften or remove a story because of a booking, including the owners.
The desk is told which companies advertise with us, for one reason: so the relationship gets disclosed inside any story about that company. Deals contingent on coverage, on an interview, or on the removal of something already published are refused outright. Our editorial standards set out what happens when an advertiser complains about a piece, which is the same thing that happens when anyone else does.
Grants and donations, if we ever take them
We have not taken a grant or a donation. If that changes, the commitments are fixed in advance. Every grant would be listed here with the funder, the amount, the period and the stated purpose. We would not accept anonymous money, money routed through an intermediary that obscures its origin, or funding earmarked for coverage of a particular company, industry, politician or region.
No funder would choose subjects, read copy before publication, or see our plans. We would also decline any single grant large enough that losing it the following year would change what we publish, because a newsroom that cannot afford to disappoint a funder is not independent, whatever its policy page says.
Conflicts we have to declare
We came out of travel writing, so our editors still know publicists at hotels, airlines and tourism boards. Those relationships are declared internally and the editor concerned does not handle stories about that company. We take no free travel, accommodation or hospitality, so the usual conflict on this beat does not arise in the first place.
Nobody on the desk holds shares in a listed Indonesian company they cover, consults for a company, ministry or campaign, or takes a speaking fee from an industry body without declaring it and handing over the beat where it matters. Family connections to government, politics or a company on a reporter’s beat are disclosed and reassigned. Where a conflict cannot be avoided, we state it in the story.
Keeping this page honest
If ownership changes, if we take on outside money, or if a new revenue stream appears, this page is updated when it happens rather than at the end of the year, and the date at the top moves with it. A change of ownership would also get its own note in the news feed, because readers who came for the reporting deserve to hear it there too.
Questions about anything above go to support@wisatahits.blog. If you think a claim on this page does not match how we behaved in a specific story, send the link and say so plainly, and we will answer.
