Salim enters paging service and television<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Through its Hong Kong-based subsidiary, Salim
\nGroup, the country's major conglomerate, enters the radio paging
\nservice in cooperation with the cooperative of the employees of
\nthe Ministry of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications.<\/p>\n
The secretary General of the ministry, Jonathan Parapak,
\nintroduced PT Indolink First Pacific (IFP) at a party held at Le
\nMeridien hotel here on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
The company, established with an investment of US$10 million,
\nis 80 owned by First Pacific Communications Holdings (FPCH) BV of
\nthe Netherlands, in which Salim Group has a stake, and 20 percent
\nby the cooperative.<\/p>\n
Salim Group, owned by Indonesia's richest businessman Liem
\nSioe Liong, controls a stake at First Pacific in Hong Kong, which
\noperates cellular telecommunications and paging services.<\/p>\n
The cooperative has an option to acquire more shares in IFP
\ngradually within 20 years until its stake becomes a majority.<\/p>\n
IFP's operational director, Bruce Crandall, said that
\nIndolink, the company's brand for the paging service, is ready
\nfor competition in the paging industry.<\/p>\n
The government has so far licensed 39 companies to operate
\nlocal radio paging services, 27 of which cooperate with the
\nstate-owned domestic telecommunications monopoly PT
\nTelekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) and four others operate
\nnationwide radio paging services, including those branded SkyTell
\nand EasyCall. The government will allow only five operators to
\nserve nationwide radio paging and just one paging company with
\ninternational services, which has not been chosen yet.<\/p>\n
IFP, scheduled to launch its service this month, will firstly
\noperate in Jakarta, Bandung of West Java and Surabaya of East
\nJava.<\/p>\n
Broadcasting<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a Salim Group executive, John B. Pasaribu, said
\nthat Indosiar Visual Mandiri, a television station owned by the
\ngroup, will likely delay the start of its broadcasting from the
\noriginal schedule of this month due to technical problems.<\/p>\n
Pasaribu, who is in charge for computer and communication
\nsystems, said there are technical problems related to frequency
\nsignals in several cities and frequency jams which occur at
\ncertain intervals.<\/p>\n
Indosiar will be on air in the 41 ultra high frequency.<\/p>\n
The country currently has five television broadcasters,
\ncomprising of Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI), Televisi
\nPendidikan Indonesia (TPI), Cakrawala Andalas Televisi (Anteve),
\nthe state-owned Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI) and Surabaya
\nCentra Televisi (SCTV) in Surabaya, East Java.<\/p>\n
The government has also licensed four other companies to
\noperate in television broadcasting, including PT Sanitya Mandara
\nTelevisi in Yogyakarta, PT Merdeka Citra Televisi Indonesia in
\nSemarang, Central Java, PT Ramako Indotelevisi in Batam, Riau,
\nand PT Cakrawala Bumi Sriwijaya Televisi in Palembang, South
\nSumatra.(icn)<\/p>",
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