Daniel Mananta is a Chinese Indonesian

Chinese Indonesian

Chinese Indonesians, also called the Indonesian Chinese, are an overseas Chinese group whose ancestors emigrated from China to Indonesia, formerly a colony of the Netherlands known as the Dutch East Indies...

 television

Television

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 host

Presenter

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, VJ and actor

Actor

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. He's best known as a VJ for MTV Indonesia

MTV Indonesia

MTV Indonesia is the Indonesian branch of a music television station MTV, parts of MTV Asia. It was first shown in ANTeve in the since was launched together with Nickelodeon Indonesia on 1 January 1993 on ANTeve, MTV Indonesia aired MTV Shows from USA such as TRL, Fanatic, Diary; Europe, Asia such...

 since 2003. Mananta hosts Indonesian Idol

Indonesian Idol

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 and was one of the host on the Asian Idol

Asian Idol

Asian Idol is a reality singing competition, which featured winners of Idol competitions from six Southeast and South Asian countries consisting of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam...

 show in 2007 for the first time held in Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

. He started to host the show since the 3rd season replacing Irgi Ahmad Fahrezi in 2006.

Daniel studied as a boarder at Aquinas College

Aquinas College

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 in Perth, Australia

Perth, Western Australia

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 and went on to graduate from Edith Cowan University

Edith Cowan University

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 in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, Australia

Australia

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. He speaks English

English language

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 very fluently. replacing Meuthia Kasim

Meuthia Kasim

Meuthia "Mukas" Kasim is a famous radio announcer in Indonesia. Meuthia judged in the first and second seasons of Indonesian Idol. During the second season of Indonesian Idol, Meuthia suffered from a stroke and has since retired from all public events thus far.Meuthia is married to Bimbom Barkah,...

.

Mananta also starred in many Indonesia

Indonesia

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n soap opera

Soap opera

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 including I Love U Boss. He recently played a major

Major

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 role

Role

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 in Indonesian first thriller movie, "Rumah Dara" released in 2010.