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Thu, 11/27/2008 - 23:26
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ALL RI RURAL VILLAGES TO HAVE TELECOM FACILTIES BY 2009
Muara Teweh, Indonesia, Nov 27 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government is implementing a program to let all rural villages in the country have telecommunication facilities by the end of 2009, a senior communication official said here Thursday.
"We have been carrying out the program for some time now, and next year all rural villages will have telecommunication facilities," Basuki Yusuf Iskandar, director general of posts and telecommunications at the communication and informatics ministry, said.
He made statement at the inauguration of a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) of PT Indosat, the country's second largest communication firm, at Lemo II village, North Barito district, Central Kalimantan.
Iskandar said under its rural village development program, the government was paying great attention to the need for telecommunication facilities and infrastructure in remote or isolated parts of the country and in border regions.
"Therefore, we ask regional governments to help and cooperate with tellecommunication operators to open new communication networks in those areas," he said.
On the same occasion, PT Indosat's director for regional sales, Syakieb Sungkar, said the company's services now covered more than 85 percent of Kalimantan (Borneo) island's populated parts.
"Indosat is not only committed to serving people by providing telecommunication services but also by conducting other activities such as charity work," he said.
In conjunction with the commissioning of its 120-meter-high BTS tower, Indosat was also holding a free medication service for local people and promoting its new green program called "Green indonesia" under which one million trees were planted in Balikpapan's Botanical Garden.
All Indosat charity programs, he said, were an implementation of the firm's 41th anniversary theme "Indosat Love Indonesia".
"We have been carrying out the program for some time now, and next year all rural villages will have telecommunication facilities," Basuki Yusuf Iskandar, director general of posts and telecommunications at the communication and informatics ministry, said.
He made statement at the inauguration of a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) of PT Indosat, the country's second largest communication firm, at Lemo II village, North Barito district, Central Kalimantan.
Iskandar said under its rural village development program, the government was paying great attention to the need for telecommunication facilities and infrastructure in remote or isolated parts of the country and in border regions.
"Therefore, we ask regional governments to help and cooperate with tellecommunication operators to open new communication networks in those areas," he said.
On the same occasion, PT Indosat's director for regional sales, Syakieb Sungkar, said the company's services now covered more than 85 percent of Kalimantan (Borneo) island's populated parts.
"Indosat is not only committed to serving people by providing telecommunication services but also by conducting other activities such as charity work," he said.
In conjunction with the commissioning of its 120-meter-high BTS tower, Indosat was also holding a free medication service for local people and promoting its new green program called "Green indonesia" under which one million trees were planted in Balikpapan's Botanical Garden.
All Indosat charity programs, he said, were an implementation of the firm's 41th anniversary theme "Indosat Love Indonesia".
