Newspaper angry at phone disruption

Newspaper angry at phone disruption

BOGOR (JP): Newly established Radar Bogor daily is to sue the
Bogor branch of state-owned telecommunications company PT Telkom
for cutting a crucial telephone line to the newspaper's editorial
office without warning, the daily's general manager said on
Thursday.

Alfian Mudjani said PT Telkom arbitrarily cut one of the
daily's telephones line on Tuesday, disrupting the transmission
of news from its parent company, the Surabaya-based Jawa Pos
daily.

"After we asked Telkom about the cutting of the line, one of
its employees promised to repair it at 4 p.m. But it was only
reconnected at 6 p.m.," Alfian said.

He reiterated that the line cutting delayed the distribution
of the newspaper to subscribers.

He said PT Telkom also disappointed the daily, which was set
up last month, when it applied for new telephone lines on Oct.
28.

PT Telkom promised to install the lines one day after the
proposal documents were completed, he said.

"But, in reality, the telephone lines were installed two days
after the documents were completed," Alfian said.

PT Telkom's Bogor branch could not be reached for comment on
Thursday.

But one of the employees who asked not to be named said that
the company had acted in line with the existing procedures.
(24/jun)