SATU MEJA was my first tour of duty at Kompas TV in October 2013. Basically it was a hardtalk with emphasis on current issues. I didn't know why in the beginning before I came, the program concept merely discussing about law enforcement eventhough in reality we brought broader issues. Including political and social perspective on the issues.
The program was hosted by Tascha Liudmila, my ex collegue in Metro TV. When I were in charged in my early job I'd seen so many obstacles. The main problem was how to deal low budget and necessity to be live on aired. Before I came, the producer recorded two episodes for one budget in order to deal with the expensive cost of production. One episode for current, and the rest episode to be on aired for next 1-2 week. But this policy backfired for the news peg itself. Killing the talkshow since it could not bring to the audience the current issues.
I had a decision in that time. I cut off cost production into a half and convinced the management to agree for a live on air once a week. Thanks God they agreed. And like we see today, Satu Meja always to be live on aired.