The Information Technology landscape in Indonesia Government Policies

	AboutIndonesia	The Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (known as BPPT) is the premier agency for technology innovation and commercialization.   The development of the telecommunications sector has been a focus of the government.  The government’s policy/plan to stimulate growth in the IT sector involves opening the market to overseas investors and offering opportunities to expand local line networks, cellular operations, and satellite links. Since partial liberalization, overseas telecom companies have paid billions of dollars to secure places in Indonesia. However, under the WTO offering, Indonesia expects to keep foreign ownership restrictions at 35 percent equity. Overseas investment has helped increase the number of fixed lines in Indonesia. As the government steadily reduces import tariffs to comply with the various WTO and ASEAN treaties, mobile phone handsets are becoming progressively cheaper; as a result, their use is expected to rise. Global System for Mobile (GSM) operators are forecast to account for two-thirds of market share. Source:  Asia:  The global telecom dynamo Telecommunications Print Media Edition: Americas edition Dedham, Sep 1997
	Telecommunication Infrastructure
	Privatization and Deregulation
	Hardware manufacturing
	E-Commerce
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	IT Usage (bymilitary, households and Labor)
	IT Geographics
	IT Financing
	IT Labor Market
	Government Policies
	Legal Environment
	Analysis : IT Strengths/ and Weaknesses
	Analysis :Impacts on the Business
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Last update: December 16,1999