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The Rockin' Life

radio station in Central Jakarta, Jakarta

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ55628265 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rockin' Life (TRL for short) is an Indonesian music radio network owned by MRA Media. It was named Hard Rock FM, under license of Hard Rock Cafe. Started broadcasting in 1996, Hard Rock FM claims itself as first lifestyle radio in Indonesia, especially Jakarta. Despite its name, it does not only play hard rock genre music but jazz, pop, alternative and other popular music genres.

Its flagship station is The Rockin' Life Jakarta (87.6 FM), with the call sign PM2FPB.

Network

Hard Rock FM has a network in four cities in Indonesia:

Jakarta (87.6 FM, PM2FPB)

Bandung (87.7 FM, PM3FXI)

Surabaya (89.7 FM, PM6FNV)

Bali (87.8 FM, PM8FWA)

Jingles

In 1996 until 2002, Hard Rock FM used jingles from JAM Creative Productions in Dallas, Texas. Since 2002, they used jingles from IQ Beats.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Rockin' Life” as radio station in Central Jakarta, Jakarta. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Rockin', Life and radio can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as radio station in Central Jakarta, Jakarta. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55628265. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 2002.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Rockin' Life”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Rockin' Life primary sources, The Rockin' Life archive and Rockin' research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Rockin' Life”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Rockin' Life” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.