Tangerang gets new phones

JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned domestic telecommunication company, PT Telkom, will offer more than 4,000 new telephone lines in Tangerang area, West Java, during a promotion period between July 5 and July 22.

Djasman Sinaga, the spokesman for the Jakarta office of PT Telkom, told reporters yesterday that the company and the privately-run Konsorsium Telekomindo Intertel had jointly installed the 4,145 new lines.

Djasman said that PT Telkom planned to establish 5 million new lines during the sixth Five Year Development Plan (Pelita VI), of which 490,000 will jointly be developed with private investors in highly developed urban areas like Jakarta, Tangerang, Bandung and Surabaya. (09)