The X Factor Indonesia is an Indonesian reality television music competition to find new singing talent, contested by aspiring singers drawn from public audition.

The show was adopted from British The X Factor and produced by FremantleMedia (now Fremantle) and Cowell's production company Syco.

In 2014, X Factor Indonesia won the Panasonic Gobel Awards for the category Talent and Best Reality Show.

The original judging panel lineup consisted of Ahmad Dhani, Rossa, Anggun, and Bebi Romeo,[1] with Robby Purba as the sole host.

The show has produced four winners to date: Fatin Shidqia (Girls), Jebe & Petty (Groups), Alvin Jonathan (Boys), and Peter Holly (Male).

Initially, X Factor Indonesia was planned as a replacement for Indonesian Idol in 2013, but due to the enormous success of the seventh season in 2012, RCTI and FremantleMedia decided to continue collaborating both the X Factor Indonesia and Indonesian Idol with each playing on alternate years.

[6] To repeat the success of seventh season of Indonesian Idol, Fabian Dharmawan from RCTI was appointed to be the Executive Producer for RCTI for the first season of the X Factor Indonesia, Head of Entertainment of FremantleMedia, Glenn Sims together with Virgita Ruchiman and Ken Irawati serving as Executive Producers for FremantleMedia Indonesia (Virgita now as general manager at VIP Production, subsidiary of SCM).

The show is primarily concerned with identifying singing talent, though appearance, personality, stage presence and dance routines are also an important element of many performances.

The judges' auditions are held in front of a live audience and the acts sing over a backing track.

In addition, there is an online audition too in which the auditionees can upload their performance on the X Factor Indonesia website and the get the vote from viewers on YouTube.

The contestants selected at auditions are further refined through a series of performances at "bootcamp", and then at the "six chair challenge", to the "judges' home visit", until a small number eventually progress to the live finals.

The finals consist of a series of two gala live shows, with the first featuring the contestants' performances and the second revealing the results of the public voting.

Heated disagreements, usually involving judges defending their contestants against criticism, are a regular feature of the show.

The winner of the X Factor Indonesia is awarded a recording contract from Sony Music Indonesia for season 1 until 2 and Hits Records since season 3, which would include investments worth 1 billion rupiah, which is claimed as the largest guaranteed prize in Indonesian television history.

Several cash rewards from the sponsors, including a new car and motorcycle, is also awarded for the grand finalists in the first season.

As a result, a lot of social media reactions begin to appear including several motion to boycott the show.

[9] On September 29, 2012, RCTI, SYCOtv and FremantleMedia Asia announced that Cross Mobile (now Evercoss) would be the official sponsor of the X Factor Indonesia.

GIV (Wings Care), Indomie (Indofood) and Teh Pucuk Harum (Mayora Indah) also joined as the official sponsor of the X Factor Indonesia.