All villages in Indonesia will have internet-access by 2010: president
www.chinaview.cn 2009-08-19 14:11:41   Print

    JAKARTA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia would intensify development of its telecommunication and telephone infrastructure to make all villages across the country have the internet access by 2010, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said here on Wednesday.

    "Telecommunication and telephone infrastructure development across the country would be our manifestation to develop the unity in the country," the president said in his remarks to deliver presidential speech before members of Regional Representative Council (DPD) at the parliament here.

    In the occasion, the incumbent president who secured his presidency until 2014 in July 8 presidential election also declared his upcoming national development program entitled "Development for All".

    He said that the program aimed at improving the public's welfare and life quality requires the availability of good infrastructures that comprised roads, irrigations, seaport, airports, clean water, telecommunication, electricity and energy.

    "The telecommunication and the road infrastructures are two most important projects to open the isolated remote areas in the country," the president said.

    He said that government would also provide subsidy funds for the regional administration-run water purifier firms (PDAM) to improve their water quality.

    The water quality improving program was part of the government's efforts to comply with Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that required at least half of the country's population have the access to clean water by 2015.

Editor: Pan Yanan
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