Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Most of the Ministry of Communication and Information’s budget was distributed to the Telecommunications and Information Accessibility Agency (Bakti) to provide internet access to remote areas of Indonesia. The amount reached IDR 11 trillion from the total budget of IDR 19 trillion obtained by Kominfo.
“The posture of the service budget is 63% of the total Kominfo budget this year of IDR 19 trillion,” said the special staff of the Ministry of Communication and Information and Chair of the Communication and Information Service Task Force, Sarwoto Atmosutarno, in CNBC Indonesia ProfitsTuesday (17/10/2023).
Bakti Kominfo carries out important tasks from the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi), namely building and preparing digital infrastructure, digital literacy and digital transformation of the government.
Last week, Minister of Communication and Information Budi Arie Setiadi announced the formation of the Communication and Information Service Task Force. His duties include building BTS, the Palapa Ring fiber optic network, Hot Backup Satellite (HBS), and operating the Satria-1 satellite.
“The purpose of forming the task force is to give it the authority to provide direction, recommendations and solutions to Bakti to be followed up with work partners,” he explained.
Sarwoto explained that specifically for BTS there are still 1,277 units that are not yet on air. Around 534 BTS have security problems that must be resolved in the field.
For this reason, he said that the problems that emerged could be resolved by the Task Force. With the help of members from various departments, institutions and ministries can find faster solutions.
Apart from BTS, the Task Force is also taking care of the progress of the Satria-1 service which will be ready at the beginning of next year. Including the need for integration between satellites and Palaparing infrastructure.
“Also, the use of the Satria-1 satellite has been launched and it is hoped that early next year it will serve a capacity of 50 thousand points, there is additional need for palaparing integration to support all community service services at 3T,” said Sarwoto.
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