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        "id": 1212329,
        "msgid": "govt-raises-radio-paging-target-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-08-30 00:00:00",
        "title": "Govt raises radio paging target",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Govt raises radio paging target JAKARTA (JP): The government revised yesterday its target of radio paging subscribers from one million to three million within the ongoing Sixth Five-Year Development Plan period which will end in March 1998. \"I think one million is too small as we can focus on expanding the pager subscription market.",
        "content": "<p>Govt raises radio paging target<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): The government revised yesterday its target of<br>\nradio paging subscribers from one million to three million within<br>\nthe ongoing Sixth Five-Year Development Plan period which will<br>\nend in March 1998.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think one million is too small as we can focus on expanding<br>\nthe pager subscription market. Radio paging operators can<br>\npenetrate the segments of students, police officers, farmers and<br>\njournalists,\" Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications<br>\nJoop Ave said in his speech at a ceremony for the installation of<br>\nthe executive board of the newly-established Indonesian<br>\nAssociation of Pager Operators.<\/p>\n<p>He urged pager operators to compete in a fair way by providing<br>\nmore varieties of products at cheaper prices.<\/p>\n<p>Just as in the business of cellular mobile telephone handsets,<br>\npagers are still considered as luxury products. Levies on the<br>\nsales of pagers raise their prices by 40 percent from their<br>\nimport prices.<\/p>\n<p>Joop suggested that Indonesian companies assemble radio pagers<br>\nto support the increasing demand for such equipment.<\/p>\n<p>He said that businessmen can totally cooperate with foreign<br>\npartners to improve their businesses, but he suggested that they<br>\nalso involve small-scale businesses and cooperatives.<\/p>\n<p>\"In the near future I will issue a decree that will classify<br>\nthe radio paging service as a business for small and medium-scale<br>\nenterprises,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the association's chairman Pong Prasetyo said that<br>\nthere are now some 400,000 pager subscribers in the country. The<br>\nnumber is expected to reach one million by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Pong, H. Sukoyo was installed yesterday as the<br>\nassociation's secretary-general, Sutisnawan as treasurer while<br>\nBuyung Indrajaya as the association's spokesman. (icn)<\/p>",
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