List of JKT48 members
On 11 January 2021, it was announced that the group would forcibly mass-graduate 26 of its members as it was hit by crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and government-imposed large-scale social restrictions.
The teams were: There were also an Academy, which replaced the term of Research Students or Trainees (Japanese: 研究生, Hepburn: Kenkyūsei) since 8 April 2018.
[12] Following interviews in September 2011 and auditions held 8–9 October 2011,[13] 51 candidates were selected to proceed to the second round.
These finalists were judged based on their dance performance to AKB48's single "Heavy Rotation", and singing a song of their choice.
[1] Upon Gabriela Margaret Warouw's graduation on 14 August 2022, this generation became the third batch to extinct from the group.
The pool was then narrowed down from 67 to 31 in a selection round broadcast by partnering television channel RCTI.
[40][41] Of the second-generation members, 18 were chosen as part of the original Team KIII formed on 25 June 2013, while the rest were grouped as trainees.
[69] This generation brought Kezia Putri Andinta as the first member to be born in the 21st century, on 28 January 2001 to be exact.
Twelve candidates for trainees from this generation were announced on 16 May 2015 during the Pareo wa Emerald Handshake Festival.
Upon Eve Antoinette Ichwan's graduation on 13 February 2022, this generation became the second batch to extinct from the group.
[132] Kanya Caya broke the record for shortest membership tenure in the group's history, resigning only seven days after her introduction.
In 2012, Aki Takajo and Haruka Nakagawa, whose transfers were announced on 24 August, officially joined on 1 November,[158] entered the newly-assembled Team J on 23 December, and made their theater debut on 3 days later.
On 24 February 2014, at the AKB48 Group Dai Sokaku Matsuri (Grand Organization Festival), Takajo was announced to return to AKB48 while Rina Chikano was transferred to JKT48.
During the Jak-Japan Matsuri event on 9 September 2018 in Jakarta which featured both groups, Saya Kawamoto was sent in an exchange program for roughly a month.
