Executive Director of the Indonesian Telecommunications Providers Association (ATSI) Marwan O. Baasir outlined the challenges faced in building connectivity in villages across Indonesia.
"So, the challenge is that the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Communication and Digital need to see whether this will flourish again, because these villages are indeed dynamic," Marwan told ANTARA in Bandung, West Java, on Saturday.
Marwan said that the expansion of villages and regions has an impact on the need for supporting infrastructure for cellular network development, including electricity networks.
In an effort to provide telecommunications services in rural areas, according to him, the government should also take into account the speed of service access required by rural communities and the number of operators needed to provide services in rural areas.
"We have to carefully calculate the economic scale. Is it economically feasible to have one operator, two operators, or three operators? Generally, in the most remote, outermost, and underdeveloped areas, there's usually only one operator," he said.
According to Marwan, it is also necessary to understand community movements before building a cellular telecommunications network in a village, considering that there are still village residents who choose to live a nomadic life.
He gave an example, in parts of Papua there are still residents who prefer to live moving from one place to another.
Minister of Communication and Digital Meutya Hafid previously stated that as many as 2,333 villages in Indonesia are not yet connected to the internet network.
Marwan stated that ATSI is ready to support the government in improving telecommunications services throughout Indonesia and help identify obstacles in implementing digital transformation.
Executive Director of the Indonesian Telecommunications Providers Association (ATSI) Marwan O. Baasir outlined the challenges faced in building connectivity in villages across Indonesia.
"So, the challenge is that the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Communication and Digital need to see whether this will flourish again, because these villages are indeed dynamic," Marwan told ANTARA in Bandung, West Java, on Saturday.
Marwan said that the expansion of villages and regions has an impact on the need for supporting infrastructure for cellular network development, including electricity networks.
In an effort to provide telecommunications services in rural areas, according to him, the government should also take into account the speed of service access required by rural communities and the number of operators needed to provide services in rural areas.
"We have to carefully calculate the economic scale. Is it economically feasible to have one operator, two operators, or three operators? Generally, in the most remote, outermost, and underdeveloped areas, there's usually only one operator," he said.
According to Marwan, it is also necessary to understand community movements before building a cellular telecommunications network in a village, considering that there are still village residents who choose to live a nomadic life.
He gave an example, in parts of Papua there are still residents who prefer to live moving from one place to another.
Minister of Communication and Digital Meutya Hafid previously stated that as many as 2,333 villages in Indonesia are not yet connected to the internet network.
Marwan stated that ATSI is ready to support the government in improving telecommunications services throughout Indonesia and help identify obstacles in implementing digital transformation.
