Indonesia - Key Statistics, Telecommunications Market and Regulatory Overview

Synopsis

The Indonesian telecom sector has been through a lot of turmoil over the last decade. This report gives an overview of the market at a time when it seems to have successfully weathered the worst of the country’s economic and social difficulties. Growth, both in subscriber numbers and in revenues, has been occurring and, more importantly, there are signs that the changes in the regulatory regime and operator restructuring are starting to have a positive effect on the industry. The mobile market has been especially strong and there has been a good resposne to the launch of 3G networks by five operators. However, there were some signs that the government was hesitating in its efforts to restructure the industry. Some pertinent statistics are provided for the telecom sector.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Key statistics
  
• 3. Telecommunications market
  
  • 3.1 Overview of Indonesia’s telecom market
    
    • 3.1.1 Mobile sector
      
    • 3.1.2 Fixed-line services
      
• 4. Regulatory environment
  
  • 4.1 Background
    
    • 4.1.1 Telecommunications Law 1989
      
    • 4.1.2 Telecommunications Law 2000
      
    • 4.1.3 Cross shareholdings
      
  • 4.2 Corruption
    
  • 4.3 Regulatort developments
    
    • 4.3.1 Control of the Internet
      
    • 4.3.2 Quality of service
      
    • 4.3.3 Price fixing
      
    • 4.3.4 Third fixed-line operator
      
    • 4.3.5 WiMAX licences
      
  • 4.4 Cross ownership dispute
    
  • 4.5 Privatisation process
    
    • 4.5.1 Background
      
    • 4.5.2 Foreign ownership
      
• 5. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Country statistics – 2009
• Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2007
• Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – 2009
• Table 4 – Internet user statistics – 2009
• Table 5 – Broadband statistics – 2009
• Table 6 – Mobile statistics – 2009
• Table 7 – National telecommunications authorities