Telkom and FT sign cooperation agreement

Telkom and FT sign cooperation agreement

JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned domestic telecommunications
company PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) signed an agreement
here over the weekend with France Telecom (FT) and an Indonesia-
France joint venture to develop a computerized system for the
administration of the telecommunications network (Siska) using
the Girafe system.

Telkom spokesman Djoko Triwibowo said that the agreement was
signed by Telkom president Setyanto P. Santosa, France Telekom
executive Jean Pecresse and Rainaldi Leconte from Telecom
Sofrecom of France and Eddi Hadianto from PT Gratika.

The Telecom Sofrecom and Gratika have set up a consortium to
participate in the project.

According to Setyanto, the US$38 million project is financed
by a loan from the World Bank.

Setyanto said that Siska, will initially be developed in
Jakarta and Surabaya, East Java, as the two cities are expected
to absorb some 43.2 percent of the five million telephone lines
to be installed within the sixth Five-year Development Plan
period (Repelita) which began last April.

Currently there are about 1.65 million telephone lines in
Jakarta and 194,000 in Surabaya. By the end of 1998, telephone
lines in Jakarta are estimated to reach 3.74 million and in
Surabaya 700,000.

Siska data base provides five software applications for
customer service orders, plant facility management, fault
repairs, workforce management and billing.(icn)