President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (right) signs an inscription in the beginning of the construction of optic fiber project for the Palapa Ring Network in the southern part of Eastern Indonesia that will link Kupang and Mataram at the State Palace in Jakarta (11/30). (ANTARA/Widodo S. Jusuf)

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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono officially declared the beginning of the construction of optic fiber project for the Palapa Ring Network in the southern part of Eastern Indonesia that will link Kupang and Mataram.

The function was held at the State Palace in Jakarta Monday, marked by a remote video conference between the President and the Minister of Communications and Information Tifatul Sembiring, and West Nusa Tenggara Governor Mohammad Zainul Madjdi.

The project is fully funded by state telecommunications company PT Telkom and scheduled for completion by the end of November 2010.

The optic fiber project covers the Mataram-Kawinda Nae line(292.3 kilometers), Kawinda Nae-Raba line (142.5 kilometers), Raba-Waingapu line (307.5 kilometers), Waingapu-Ende line (210.1 kilometers), and Ende-Kupang line (285.4 kilometers).
Palapa Ring is a national optic fiber network that will reach 33 provincial capitals and 440 cities or regencies throughout Indonesia.

The network will become the foundation of all telecommunication service providers and users that require data transfer in high speed or broad band.

On the occasion, the President inaugurated operation of the `Telepon Berdering` (ringing telephone) program, a government program to reduce the information gap.

As many as 25 thousand villages in Indonesia will have access and afford telecommunications system by the end of 2009, and by the end of 2010 some 31,824 villages will have access to this communitions system.

The occasion was attended by a number cabinet ministers, including Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Agung Laksono, Minister of Home Affairs Gamawan Fauzi, Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto, and Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi.(*)

Editor: Aditia Maruli

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