Archive for February, 2007

Indonesia’s broadcasting goes digital

Indonesia’s analog broadcasting, on both radio and television, will migrate to digital technology soon.
By enacting Law No. 32/2002, the country’s broadcasting will become digital. According to State Minister of Communications and Information Sofyan Djalil, trials for radio and television digital broadcasting as well as digital TV in mobile phones are in progress.

How to solve piracy in the developing countries?

How to solve the software, content and application piracy in the developing countries? Just simply sell the CDs in local-standard price!
And please never sell them in global-standard market price because it’s just inviting piracy-mafia groups to their usual business: copying the original, burning it into CD and DVD and sell them in the street vendors!

Indonesia develops radar for weather forecasting

Indonesia has developed and automatic radar system that provides real-time data to increase the accuracy of weather study in various fields, expert said as reported by The Jakarta Post.

Telkom’s market capitalization amounts to US$22.3 billion

PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom) managed to book US$22.3 billion in market capitalization as of December 28, 2006.
PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk., is the largest InfoCom company and full service and network provider in Indonesia. Telkom and its affiliated companies provide fixed wire line, fixed wireless, mobile service, data & internet and other multimedia services, and […]

Jakarta’s telephone lines almost recovered

Telecommunication network in Jakarta and environs, after disrupted by floods and heavy rains, almost recovered yesterday. Telephone lines, mainly for PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) and PT Indonesian Satellite Corporation Tbk (Indosat)subscribers, has been used almost normally.
According to Indosat’s spokeperson, Adita Irawati, her company has reactivated base transceiver station (BTS) after shut-downed due to lack of […]

Power supply in Jakarta to return normal in a week

Many electricity customers suffered blackouts due to massive flooding in Jakarta and environs at the week-end. State electricity company PT PLN will restore normal power supply within one week, PLN President Director Eddie Widiono said Tuesday.
It’s a good nice for me since I can do nothing in my home, mainly to have my PC and […]

Bloggers report on Jakarta floods

JAKARTA UNDERWATER
Heavy rains from Wednesday evening through Friday afternoon have caused flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia.
We can follow the latest update on Jakarta floods by entering Indonesia’s blogosphere either monitoring some blog aggregators like Planet Terasi and Merdeka or tracking it in Technorati.
The country’s bloggers posted the latest pictures on their blog and their flickr accounts […]

Indonesia’s TEMPO goes blogging

Indonesia’s respected and influential media, TEMPO, launched its blog section in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) recently. TEMPO is the first mainstream media in Indonesia which has blog version.
Intended as a apart of their online version Tempo Interaktif, some its active bloggers who already run their personal blogs as well as other editors and journalists will […]