Due to disruption, Indonesia will use satellite for Internet
The government of Indonesia are considering to use satellite connection to reroute Internet access due to Asian internet access disrupted recently. However, the repair work is expected to take between two weeks and one month. 
The country’s telecommunications authorities, as well as major players in the industry, expect it to take between two and four weeks for Internet capacity to recover after it dropped to 17 percent Tuesday following the Taiwan earthquake.
“The question of when Internet connections will recover, regretfully, lies in the hands of external parties,” Basuki Yusuf Iskandar, the director general of posts and telecommunication at the Communications and Information Ministry, said Thursday during a press conference.
“The repair work is expected to take between two weeks and one month,” he said.
Indonesia’s Internet connections were disrupted as a result of Tuesday’s 7.2-on-the-Richter-scale earthquake in Taiwan, which damaged undersea cables, and in turn disrupted Internet and telephone services across Asia after connections to main servers in the U.S. were severed.
…Responding to a question on the current prohibition on local operators renting connections from international providers, Basuki said he would waive this as the current situation was an emergency.
Three of the country’s major telecommunications providers, PT Telkom, PT Indosat and PT Excelcomindo, have stated their willingness to charge Internet users less than would normally be the case.
Indonesian Internet Providers Association (APJII) chairwoman Sylvia W. Sumarlin, who was also present at the press conference, said that satellite connection tariffs for one gigabyte per month were between Rp 25 million and Rp 30 million. Link
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