Akademi Fantasi Indosiar

In the first season, the Indosiar and AFI judges selected candidates for their students or so-called "academics" from 4 major cities in Indonesia, including Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya and Medan. From the 4 cities, an audition was held which was attended by thousands of participants to get 12 people who would later be selected to be educated by lecturers during approximately 90 days in Jakarta.

In early December 2003, the 12 AFI academics were introduced through two non-elimination concerts. The first Elimination Concert was held at the end of December with an SMS and premium call scoring system. After 9 weeks of holding the Elimination Concert, the first season of the Akademi Fantasi Indosiar (2003–2004) was won by Veri Affandi, Medan audition finalist who succeeded in eliminating Kia Suban and Mawar Febra on the night of the Grand Final by pocketing more than 42% of SMS from Indosiar viewers.

Veri's unexpected victory when viewed from the first season trip which favored Mawar and Dicky at the beginning of the week, made many people judge Veri's victory was only due to popularity and stories about Veri's past that touched the hearts of viewers, especially mothers. The comments and good performances displayed by Mawar and Kia on the night of the Grand Final still did not make Veri's SMS poll able to be overtaken. Veri whose past is told is enough to reap a lot of bitter trips to make the SMS poll suddenly jump towards the 7th week, and cannot be pursued until the night of the Grand Final by other finalists, including Mawar.

After success in the first season, AFI then held a similar event titled Akademi Fantasi Indosiar 2, which was held only one week after the AFI 1 ended. What distinguishes AFI 2 from AFI 1 is the aspect of choosing 12 academics that enter quarantine. After getting 18 prospective academics through 9 audition cities (Jakarta, Medan, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta & Surabaya), the 12 AFI 2 academics were selected by Indosiar viewers through SMS & Call Premium polls in two Pre-Elimination concerts.

In the Pre-elimination concert 1 was selected Micky and Cindy from Jakarta, Rindu and Lia from Bandung and Pasha and Haikal from Medan. Academic candidates from Jakarta who were eliminated at the Pre-Elimination 1 concert named Purie Andriani are now better known as Purie Mahadewi. The following week, at the Pre-elimination 2 Concert Tia and Nana were selected from Semarang, Adit and Nia from Surabaya and Adi and Jovita from Yogyakarta.

After holding nine Elimination concerts, AFI 2 was won by Tia from Semarang. Tia, who every week managed to get positive comments from the judges, was also able to record some of her best performances through the song My All (Mariah Carey), Tak Ku Duga (Ruth Sahanaya), Bring Me To Live (Evanessence) and Pengabdian Cinta (Krisdayanti). On the night of the Grand Final Tia won 42% of the vote defeating Haikal and Micky. The AFI 2 Grand Final is the most popular event with the highest rating in Indonesian television history and until now, no one can match it.

In AFI 3 there are 3 additional cities in Denpasar, Makassar and Palembang in the auditing process. To determine the top 12 academics, 3 representatives from each audition city will be screened again through 3 pre-elimination concerts. Under the judgment of Trie Utami, Tamam Hosein and Alm. Harry Roesli representative from each of the audition cities will be chosen, those who qualify as the top 9 academics are INTAN (Jakarta) and RANDY (Makassar) from Pre-elimination Concert 1, DESY (Medan), SUTHA (Denpasar) and EKY (Surabaya) from Pre-elimination 2, as well as RIFKY (Semarang), TARI (Bandung), YUKE (Palembang) and SHELLY (Yogyakarta) from Pre-elimination 3. To complete 12 Academics, 3 other finalists were chosen based on the jury's choice of candidates failed academy. Those who qualify as wild cards are LEO (Makassar), ALVIN (Yogyakarta) and JELITA (Jakarta).

AFI 3 recorded 3 new records in the history of AFI. The first by leaving all men in the Grand Final, the only remaining female finalists, Eky, were eliminated in the last 4. The second record with the difference in the acquisition of the SMS Grand Final was very thin Sutha with Alvin. Sutha won AFI 2 with an SMS number of 38.61%, followed by Alvin with 38.57%, Leo at 0.04%. The third record is obtained from Sutha as the youngest AFI winner in his class, which is 18 years old.

In the fourth season, AFI no longer uses numbers behind it, but uses years. Therefore, AFI in this fourth season often we know AFI 2005. AFI 2005 is arguably the savior of AFI, because in the third season, AFI experienced a slight decrease in rating because the audience had begun to saturate. However, in AFI 2005, the saturation could be overcome and eventually the AFI rating experienced an increase. The AFI 2005 election system is slightly different from the previous season. AFI 2005 auditions were held in 11 major cities in Indonesia. To enter the AFI dormitory, they must take part in a selection concert where the concert classifies academics in the Hip and Hop groups. The support system is still using SMS and Call Premium. At the Hip Hop concert, the cities of Medan and Palembang failed to send their representatives, namely Nonie and Marissa because they were eliminated. Marissa was first eliminated in the Hip group. Whereas Nonie was eliminated when determining the top 6 Hop groups. In the end, the best 12 were selected, namely BOJES (Jakarta), TIKA & TIWI (Bandung), FIBRI (Semarang), YONGKI & ANJAR (Yogyakarta), LURI (Surabaya), DEWA (Denpasar), INDRI & ARJUNA (Makassar), RIZWAR ( Banjarmasin) and ADE (Manado). AFI 2005 is the youngest and freshest AFI compared to other AFI's.

Top 12 AFI 2005 contestants were:

• Ade Alfonso Pattihahuwan/Ade (24, Manado)~WINNER
• Indri Suhantrie Tribuana/Indri (20, Makassar)~RUNNER-UP (September 3, 2005)
• Jisindo Beagutes/Bojes (19, Jakarta)~VOTED OFF (August 28, 2005)
• Y. Purnawan Anjar Kusumo Boedojo/Anjar (19, Yogyakarta) ~VOTED OFF (August 21, 2005)
• Luri Dini Ayu Pratiwi/Luri (20, Surabaya) ~VOTED OFF (August 14, 2005)
• Prastiwi Dwiarti/Tiwi (19, Bandung) ~VOTED OFF (July 24, 2005)
• Rizwar Rizali/Rizwar (25, Banjarmasin) ~VOTED OFF (July 17, 2005)
• Kartika Yudhia Ramlan/Tika (19, Bandung) ~VOTED OFF (July 10, 2005)
• Fibri Hening MAM/Fibri (20, Semarang) ~VOTED OFF (July 3, 2005)
• Warigit Dri Atmoko/Yongki (25, Yogyakarta)~VOTED OFF (June 26, 2005)
• I Dewa Ayu Anggie Santi Lestari/Dewa (19, Denpasar) ~VOTED OFF (June 19, 2005)
• Arjuna Prima Iskandar/Arjuna (20, Makassar) ~VOTED OFF (June 12, 2005)

Eliminated Contestants on The HIP HOP concert Round:

• Nonie Elza Muhardika/Nonie (19, Medan) ~VOTED OFF (May 30, 2005)
• Justicia Seska Febe/Tisya (21, Manado) ~VOTED OFF (May 29, 2005)
• Iwan Hartanto/Iwan (25, Surabaya) ~VOTED OFF (May 23, 2005)
• Rika Indah Sari/Rika (21, Palembang) ~VOTED OFF (May 22, 2005)
• Fauziah AR/Fauzi (18, Banjarmasin) ~VOTED OFF (May 16, 2005)
• Benny Irawan/Benny (21, Jakarta) ~VOTED OFF (May 15, 2005)
• Bunga Nada Apriliandis/Bunga (22, Semarang) ~VOTED OFF (May 9, 2005)
• Aris Sanjaya/Ari (24, Denpasar) ~VOTED OFF (May 8, 2005)
• Rafika Utami Putri/Fika (19, Lampung) ~VOTED OFF (May 2, 2005)
• Marissa Natra/Marissa (19, Pekanbaru) ~VOTED OFF (May 1, 2005)

• ¹ Many argue that competition in the HOP Group is more stringent than the HIP group. Names like Indri, Nonie, Ade who are considered the most qualified must be in the bottom 3 in week 5 of the HOP
• ² HIP: Tika the highest SMS acquisition, Bottom 3 Rika, Benny & Marisa(ELIM). Trie Utami chose Marisa because she felt Marisa's pitch control was a mess
• HOP: Bojes the highest SMS acquisition, Bottom 3 Bunga, Nonie & Fika(ELIM). Trie Utami chose Fika because Fika appeared very flat
• ³HIP: Tika the highest SMS acquisition, Bottom 3 Rika, Arjuna & Ari(ELIM). Trie Utami chose Ari because it was judged to be true throughout the song while singing Berhenti Berharap (Sheila On 7)
• HOP: Bojes the highest SMS acquisition, Bottom 3 Dewa, Tiwi & Bunga(ELIM). Trie Utami chooses Bunga because Bunga are not suitable for pop genres
• ⁴HIP: Tika the highest SMS acquisition, Bottom 3 Rika, Rizwar & Benny(ELIM). Trie Utami chose Benny because throughout the song Puteri (Jamrud), Benny unconsciously took one note higher than the original
• HOP: Dewa the highest SMS acquisition, Bottom 3 Iwan, Nonie & Fauzi(ELIM). Trie Utami reluctantly chose Fauzi to save Nonie and Iwan
• ⁵HIP: Rizwar the highest SMS acquisition, Bottom 3 Tika, Yongki& Rika(ELIM). Trie Utami chose Rika with the consideration that Rika was always in the bottom 3
• HOP: Indri the highest SMS acquisition, Bottom 3 Dewa, Nonie & Iwan(ELIM). Trie Utami reluctantly chose Iwan to save Nonie and Dewa
• ⁶HIP: Luri the highest SMS acquisition, Bottom 3 Rizwar, Arjuna & Tisya(ELIM). Trie Utami reluctantly chose Tisya because Arjuna and Rizwar rated more character. Viewers actually predict Yongki in the bottom 3
• HOP: Tiwi the highest SMS acquisition, Bottom 3 Indri, Ade & Noni(ELIM). Trie Utami reluctantly chose Nonie to save Indri and Ade
• ⁷ Luri suddenly fainted after hearing the Fibri was eliminated, due to the shock of her relapsing heart disease.

The fifth season with the name Akademi Fantasi Indosiar 2006 was won by Widi. This season gave the winner a trip to Las Vegas and got a chance to met up with Celine Dion.

Indosiar has make an official announcement that the sixth season will return in 2013 after Ramadhan.