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View all search resultsGovt to push BTS projects in border areas
Communications and Information Minister Rudiantara says his ministry is focusing its programs this year on developing Base Transreceiver Station (BTS) towers in border areas to create better communication access and support the countryâs sovereignty
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ommunications and Information Minister Rudiantara says his ministry is focusing its programs this year on developing Base Transreceiver Station (BTS) towers in border areas to create better communication access and support the country's sovereignty.
'There are three areas that we want to focus on with the BTS projects, namely the border areas between Papua and Papua New Guinea; East Nusa Tenggara and East Timor; and [West, Central, and North] Kalimantan and [Sabah and Sarawak in] Malaysia,' Rudiantara said in Jakarta on Monday as quoted by Antara news agency. 'Kalimantan is our first priority at the moment.'
He expected that by January 2016, a BTS tower project would be completed in Kalimantan so that people living in 140 villages along the border of Kalimantan and Malaysia could have better communication access.
'Malaysia has a number of radio stations that can reach our people in border areas. This is an issue of sovereignty and we have to create communication access to connect our own people to their country,' he added. (***)
