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        "msgid": "govt-to-collect-11m-in-radio-frequency-fees-1447893297",
        "date": "1994-09-01 00:00:00",
        "title": "Govt to collect $11m in radio frequency fees",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Govt to collect $11m in radio frequency fees JAKARTA (JP): The government will collect some Rp 24 billion (US$11 million) from private radio stations throughout the country for fees of frequency utilization rights (BHP), an official said.",
        "content": "<p>Govt to collect $11m in radio frequency fees<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): The government will collect some Rp 24 billion<br>\n(US$11 million) from private radio stations throughout the<br>\ncountry for fees of frequency utilization rights (BHP), an<br>\nofficial said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We keep on collecting fees from the stations, even though<br>\nmost of the radio broadcasters, especially those in Jakarta, are<br>\nviolating allowable power transmitter rules,&quot; the director of<br>\nfrequency of the Ministry of Tourism, Post and<br>\nTelecommunications, Saksono, told reporters here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that actually the government allows the use of a power<br>\ntransmitter with a capacity of only 100 watts for every radio<br>\nbroadcasting in the frequency modulation (FM) wave and 400 watts<br>\nfor those in the amplitude modulation (AM) wave.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;However, several radio stations in Jakarta violate the rules<br>\nand use far more powerful transmitters,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently more than 50 radio stations in Jakarta, 38<br>\nof them operating in the FM wave. Nationally there are about 560<br>\nprivate radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>The government in 1989 enacted a law on telecommunications<br>\nwhich was amended in 1993, which penalizes violators with one<br>\nyear of imprisonment or a fine of Rp 10 million for negligence,<br>\nfour years of imprisonment or a fine of Rp 40 million for<br>\ndisturbance, and seven years of imprisonment for causing death.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1992 the government has also ruled that every FM station<br>\nin Jakarta should pay annual fees of Rp 2.5 million for frequency<br>\nutilization rights and AM stations Rp 1.5 million. Fees for<br>\nstations in other provinces vary from Rp 400,000 to Rp 1 million<br>\nper annum.<\/p>\n<p>Saksono also said that by March 1993, his office collected a<br>\ntotal of Rp 14.43 billion in fees, which increased to Rp 23.54<br>\nbillion by March this year.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that from January to August this year his office<br>\nhas registered only 124,913 licensed radio terminals or only 30<br>\npercent of the total of such devices used in the country. (icn)<\/p>",
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