 On October 20, 1963, the government issued a Presidential Decision ("Keppres") regarding the formation of the TVRI Foundation ("Jajasan TVRI", later spelled "Yayasan TVRI") as its governing body.In the first year of the TVRI broadcast, there are 10,000 television owners in Indonesia.Since then, the Foundation allotted a tax for television-owners until 1969, when the television property tax was transferred through mail and air deliveries nationwide.