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)