Unfair revenue format protested<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Association of Indonesian Telecommunications
\nKiosks Operators (APWI) demanded on Thursday that the government
\nrevise its current 20 percent:80 percent revenue sharing
\narrangement with state-owned domestic telecommunications monopoly
\nPT Telkom.<\/p>\n
APWI chairman Ahmad S. Daulay asked the Ministry of
\nCommunications to double the kiosks operators' share to 40
\npercent.<\/p>\n
\"If the revenue arrangement is not revised immediately,
\ntelephone kiosks operators throughout the country will stop
\nproviding their services,\" the chairman of the 15,000-strong
\nassociation warned.<\/p>\n
He was speaking to reporters following a meeting with
\nofficials from the Office of the Coordinating Ministry for
\nEconomy, Finance and Industry.<\/p>\n
Ahmad asked the government for fair treatment, pointing out
\nthat Telkom only invested Rp 10 million (US$1,300) for each
\ntelephone kiosk compared to Rp 60 million invested by the private
\noperator.<\/p>\n
He added that telephone kiosk operators envied the large
\nforeign joint operation scheme (KSO) partners of Telkom who had
\nbeen granted a lucrative 90 percent:10 percent revenue sharing
\narrangement by the authority.<\/p>\n
Five foreign KSO investors were appointed by the government to
\ninstall and manage fixed-line telecommunications services in
\nvarious parts of the country.<\/p>\n
\"This kind of discrimination in the telecommunications
\nindustry must be reformed,\" Ahmad said.<\/p>\n
He explained that the kiosks operators' revenue had declined
\nby about 40 percent since the economic crisis started in July
\nlast year, particularly due to the unfair revenue sharing
\narrangements with Telkom.<\/p>\n
He said that telephone kiosks contributed about 18 percent of
\nTelkom's 1997 revenue.<\/p>\n
As a comparison, the foreign KSO operators contributed about
\n27 percent to Telkom's 1997 revenue. (rei)<\/p>",
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