Indonesia has completed the last leg of a 13,000-km (8,080 mile) fiber-optic net...
JAKARTA - Indonesia has completed the last leg of a 13,000-km fiber-optic network that will bring high-speed internet to some of its poorest regions in the country’s east, including the restive region of Papua, the government said on Monday.
The cable to carry telecommunication, which goes via land and under the sea, as well as microwave transmissions and telco towers, cost 7.63 trillion rupiah to build, according to a government website on public private partnerships. President Joko Widodo said the project should provide “a sense of justice” for Indonesians who live in the eastern part of the country, because they will be able to access internet with the same speed as others in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.
“This should strengthen our trade, connecting small and medium enterprises’ products to national, even global networks,” Widodo said in a statement, calling the project a “highway in the sky”.Widodo did not refer to any particular incident, but Papua, which encompasses Indonesia’s two easternmost provinces, has seen an upsurge in protests and unrest for weeks. The government curbed the internet temporarily in response.
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