Reflecting On Students Entangled In Cables In Jakarta, Semarang City Government Ducting Golden Triangle Area

Illustration of the chaotic fiber optic cable in Jakarta. (Between)

SEMARANG - Semarang City Government (Pemkot) continues to reduce air fiber optic cables into underground or ducting networks in the Golden Triangle area.

Semarang Mayor Hevearita Gunaryanti Rahayu said the effort was to beautify the city, as well as prevent accidents.

"Today, the Semarang City Government together with Telkom, Telkomsel, Moratelindo, together with PT BPS, BUMD Semarang lowered the ducting cable," he said in Semarang, Central Java, Tuesday, August 15, which was confiscated by Antara.

This was conveyed by the woman who is familiarly called Ita after the ceremonial decline in fiber optic cables in front of the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque on Jalan Gajah Mada Kotar Semarang which is part of the Semarang Golden Triangle area.

Wire installation, including fiber optics, underground, he said, is safer than aerial cables that are prone to disasters and accidents, as has just happened in Jakarta.

"Yesterday, we all knew that an accident or disaster occurred in Jakarta due to cables (optical fiber, ed.) that resulted in casualties," said the first woman to become the mayor of Semarang.

With the ducting system, he said, the urban arrangement will look neater and more beautiful, and provide more aspects of comfort and security for the general public, especially road users.

"We hope that with this (ducting, ed.) the city is beautiful, then also safe, and is 5G based. We hope that later it will not only be in the Golden Triangle area," he said.

He said the ducting system had actually begun its implementation in the Semarang Old Town area, which currently looks neat without any milling aerial cables and chaotic.

"That's why I invite it like in Old Town. Everything is already beautiful, yes, someone says it's like in Europe. If there is no poor cable across like this, it can be more beautiful and comfortable," he said.

He admitted that the implementation of the ducting system does have implications for costs so that not all telecommunications providers have lowered air cables into the underground cable network.

"Because it is related to costs, because this is also a collaboration, we hope that the Golden Triangle will first. Because the ducting has also been built, it's just a matter of inserting it. If there is no pioneer, there won't be the first one like this, it won't be finished later," he said.

Head of KSO BPS Moratelindo Resi Bramani said the work would take approximately two months until it could be used optimally.

"We hope that in a month to two months, the area is all tidy without cables. We also have a 'grand design' for the future. For the time being, we used this section first and it was already'ready' (ready), just use it," he said.

He conveyed that in terms of profit from a safer and more durable ducting system for fiber optic cables, including in the maintenance aspect, it is also easier because it is underground.

"Treatment is safer and easier if it's down, because it comes in once. There are no more accidents, no more cable cuts, no moreselves and others," he said.