FIVE months after the completion of the East Palapa Ring, inaugurated by President Joko Widodo on October 14, 2019, Internet service is still inaccessible to customers in a number of regencies and cities within the telecommunication’s fiber optic cable network. In a number of regions in the Papua and West Papua provinces, for example, even mobile phone signals are absent, let alone fast and cheap data access.

Communication and Informatics