Telkom's donation for small companies

Telkom's donation for small companies

The Jakarta office of the state-owned telecommunication
company, PT Telkom, gave Rp358 million (US$165,971) in donations
to seven small-scale business patrons, two cooperatives and three
poor villages in the Seribu Islands on Monday.

John Welly, chief of Jakarta Telkom, said the donations were
aimed at developing the role of small-scale businesses and
cooperatives.

The donations, he said, are also an answer to President
Soeharto's call for companies to share one to five percent of
their profits with small-scale industries and cooperatives.

The recipients of the donations includes a company which
supplies its good to PT Telkom and others whose products are
outside PT Telkom's line of business, such as wooden and rattan
furniture as well as jamu, traditional herbal medicine. (03)