FOR nearly nine hours the meeting in the Prambanan Room, Sahid Hotel, last Thursday, dragged on. Heru Sutadi, member of the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulation Body (BRTI), and his colleagues met with Telkom, and then Indosat. The agenda was to discuss interconnection rates proposed by the two operators.

The agency established by the government to regulate and monitor telecommunications is trying to meet its target: setting new interconnectio