Telkom, co-ops sign agreement

Telkom, co-ops sign agreement

The state-owned telecommunications company, PT Telkom, has
renewed its agreement with 10 multi-purpose cooperatives on the
management of 890 coin operated public telephone booths in
Central Jakarta.

The agreement, marking the extension of the contract between
the company and the cooperatives which was launched in 1991, was
signed by the head of the Central Jakarta PT Telkom Office G.S.
Sigit Pramono and managers of the cooperatives over the weekend.

"If the cooperation proves successful, the number of phone
booths managed by the cooperatives will be increased to around 40
percent of the total 3,308 coin operated public telephones in the
mayoralty from the current 890," Pramono said.

In view of the small number of public telephones damaged by
vandals in the mayoralty over the past few years, the cleanliness
of phone booths and the new jobs generated by the cooperative,
Pramono considered the cooperation useful to cooperatives, as
well as to PT Telkom. (has)