Palapa Ring’s broken Promises
The promise of fast and cheap Internet access in outer regions through the Palapa Ring has yet to materialize. The stumbling block is connecting the Internet to the optic fibre cable network.
Khairul Anam
March 3, 2020
COMPUTER-BASED national exams will be carried out in March and April. Nevertheless, Ferry A. Pelupessy is already busy making sure that the exams can be done in all schools in the Tambrauw Regency in West Papua. On Friday, February 14, Ferry, e-government affairs head of Tambrauw’s office for communication, informatics, coding and statistics, visited five districts without Internet signal. It took him and his team a week to set up a very sm
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