Telkom cleans up public phones

The South Jakarta office of the state-owned PT Telkom telecommunication company deployed personnel to clean up 600 public phones in the area in line with the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference.

Manager for the external relations of PT Telkom, Sufi Wahyuni M., said in a statement yesterday that the operation carried out on Thursday was meant to help beautify the city so as to give a good image of the city to the APEC delegates.

Most of the 600 coin and card public phones cleaned were located on main streets and shopping centers.

Wahyuni called for the public to help secure and maintain the cleanliness and existence of the phones. (bsr)