Strengthening Telecommunications Infrastructure

KOMPAS/RIZA FATHONI

Students of different grades wear masks and maintain physical distance as study together in a “pod” on Friday (28/8/2020), using the free wifi facility at the RW 05 community unit hall in West Kuningan, South Jakarta. The subdistrict offices provided free internet access to make it easier for the students to follow the online distance learning (PJJ) education policy during the Covid-19 health crisis.

Even without the Covid-19 pandemic, telecommunications are an inevitability for Indonesia, an archipelagic nation with a vast geographical span.

The government administration – the current one and its predecessors – has the will to build the infrastructure. However, the pandemic has laid bare how lackluster our telecommunications infrastructure truly is.