Govt to launch teecommunications project
Govt to launch teecommunications project
JAKARTA (JP): The government will officially launch Telematika
Indonesia, an ambitious telecommunications project to prepare the
country for entry to the information technology era, in January
next year.
Director General of Post and Telecommunications Djakaria
Purawidjaja said here yesterday the project consisted of an
integrated program to develop the country's telecommunications
infrastructure, its application and human resources.
He said that Telematika Indonesia was based on the Nusantara
21 superhighway information project developed by the Ministry of
Tourism, Post and Telecommunications.
"Nusantara 21 is a concept and vision for the country's
telecommunications sector in the 21st century set by the Ministry
of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications. The vision has been
enriched and sharpened by other sectors based on Presidential
Decree No. 30/1997 as Telematika Indonesia," he said after
opening a meeting of the Indonesian Telecommunications Society
held at PT Indosat here yesterday.
He said that a series of action plans would be completed by
Dec. 19.
"On Jan. 15, Telematika will be revealed, just wait and see.
We have prepared a very thick manuscript," he said, adding that
Telematika was now a multi-sector project and more detailed.
He refused to give further information.
Nusantara 21 is Indonesia's mega telecommunications plan to
enter the information technology era. The project is designed to
connect the whole archipelago to the information superhighway
through multimedia networks.
The project, which will involve both private and government
participation, is defined as the integration of
telecommunications and computing hardware and software having the
main components of telecommunications, the computer industry and
television broadcasting, as well as the media industry.
To enhance the project, a team comprising 14 cabinet ministers
has been formed to help usher Indonesia into the information
superhighway era. The team, headed by Coordinating Minister for
Production and Distribution Hartarto, aims to find synergy
between the information and telecommunications sectors, or what
the decree terms Telematika after the Indonesian words
Telekomunikasi and Informatika.
The team will also handle Nusantara 21 to develop the nation's
infrastructure in telecommunications, multimedia and information
technology. (icn)