Honoris makes circuit packs

Honoris makes circuit packs

JAKARTA (JP): PT Honoris Industry, a Modern group subsidiary,
and Lucent Technologies of the United States have finished making
circuit pack telecommunications equipment for state-owned PT
Telkom.

Circuit pack is essential equipment for telecommunications
switching.

The Modern group's vice president, Michael V. Haribowo, said
yesterday that the country, particularly Honoris, would benefit
from manufacturing the equipment because it would master modern
technology: "We will then be able to create modifications."

Honoris, the country's leading camera maker, recently won an
ISO 9002 certificate issued by the Singapore Institute of
Standard and Industrial Research.

Honoris has signed a deal with Lucent to assemble 10,000
circuit pack units a year.

Lucent, formerly affiliated with the U.S. telecommunications
giant AT&T, has set up a joint venture in West Java called PT
Lucent Technologies Network Systems Indonesia.

The Indonesian joint venture switching maker is 75 percent
owned by Lucent and 25 percent by PT Citra Telekomunikasi
Indonesia, a subsidiary of Citra Lamtorogung Persada, a private
business group controlled by Siti Hardijanti Rukmana, the eldest
daughter of President Soeharto. (icn)