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        "id": 1011190,
        "msgid": "government-sets-new-phone-charges-1447893297",
        "date": "1994-12-29 00:00:00",
        "title": "Government sets new phone charges",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Government sets new phone charges JAKARTA (JP): The government announced yesterday reductions of up to 56 percent on long distance calls and the installation of new telephone lines, and a 10 percent rise in the rate for city calls as of Jan. 1. Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications Joop Ave told a press conference at his office here yesterday that the new installation charges will be based on three classifications: business, housing and social facilities.",
        "content": "<p>Government sets new phone charges<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): The government announced yesterday reductions of<br>\nup to 56 percent on long distance calls and the installation of new<br>\ntelephone lines, and a 10 percent rise in the rate for city calls as<br>\nof Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications Joop Ave told a<br>\npress conference at his office here yesterday that the new<br>\ninstallation charges will be based on three classifications:<br>\nbusiness, housing and social facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\"The installation fee for each telephone line in Jakarta, for<br>\ninstance, will be lowered from Rp 1,000,000 (US$456) to Rp 900,000<br>\n($411) for businesses, to Rp 700,000 for households and government<br>\nand military offices and to Rp 560,000 ($256) for social facilities,\"<br>\nhe said.<\/p>\n<p>He cited another example, saying that in Bandung, West Java, the<br>\ninstallation charge will be lowered from Rp 750,000 ($342) to Rp<br>\n500,000 ($228) for businesses. And the monthly fee for telephones for<br>\nsocial welfare institutions in that city will be lowered by 25<br>\npercent.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the installation charge for a cellular mobile<br>\ntelephone will be reduced from Rp 1,000,000 to<br>\nRp 300,000 ($137), while the air-time charge for such a telephone<br>\nwill be cut by 21 percent from Rp 400 to Rp 330 per minute.<\/p>\n<p>Joop said the new tariff structure for long distance calls will<br>\nbe based on three zones instead of the five zones applied by the<br>\nstate-owned domestic telecommunications firm PT Telekomunikasi<br>\nIndonesia (Telkom) since the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new arrangements, long distance calls made within the<br>\nzone of more than 1,000 kilometers will be lowered by up to 25<br>\npercent. For instance, the charge for calls from here to Jayapura in<br>\nIrian Jaya will be decreased by 25 percent, from Rp 500 to Rp 400 per<br>\npulse at night.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary General of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications<br>\nJonathan Parapak said that the charge on local calls will be raised<br>\nfrom Rp 100 per pulse at present to Rp 110 early next month.<\/p>\n<p>Joop also said yesterday that by the end of this year, Telkom<br>\nwill have established 3.54 million telephone lines, with 1.24 million<br>\nof them not yet properly marketed. (icn)<\/p>",
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