Indonesia is undertaking two major projects to improve its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure, an Indonesian official said here Tuesday.
To enable more Indonesians to have access to the ICT service, the government is currently carrying out two major projects in the country -- Universal Service Obligations (USO) Program and National Fiber Optic Backbone (NFOB) Project, said Vice Chairmen of Indonesian Information Technology (IT) Committee Benny Ranti, who is here attending the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)-China ICT Business Forum.
Under the USO Program scheduled for implementation from 2003 to 2010, the government hopes to provide telephone access for all villages in Indonesia by the year 2010, Benny said.
Of all 66,778 villages across Indonesia, 43,022 have no telephone access, he said, noting all those remote and rural villages will be equipped with at least one telephone line under the program.
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