Kominfo Guarantees The Availability Of The Internet To Support Work From Home

JAKARTA - In order to prevent the spread of the corona virus or COVID-19, the government has appealed to the public to be able to work from home or work from home (WFH). Social distancing is also needed in order to reduce the outbreak.

The Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) also plays a role by cooperating with telecommunication operators and digital platforms. The goal is to maintain the availability of the internet network (bandwidth) that supports work or study activities while at home.

"What is called social distancing. We jointly support the president's policy of overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, among others by providing good bandwidth and service quality, warding off hoaxes and other incentives," said Minister of Communication and Information, Johnny G Plate recently at Kominfo, Jakarta. Center.

Plate said it was nothing new if telecommunications companies were willing to provide additional bandwidth. It can be seen that before the Eid Al-Fitr and other international events are very often held.

"Currently related to the pandemic, we are calculating the exact length of this impact. Therefore, telecommunications operators already know their respective capacities. In any area, what is the maximum use," added Plate.

This was confirmed by the President Director (Dirut) of Telkomsel, Setyanto Hantoro, saying that his party had the capacity and prepared a network to support residents who work and live at home.

"We have spare capacity for Eid, disasters and things like this. We make sure the network is ready to study, work and worship from home. On Thursday we can guarantee that the network will be prepared for traffic spikes. On Thursday we have calculated if there is a surge, how many," said Setyanto.

Telkomsel also provides a special quota of 30GB for the next 30 days by collaborating with a number of online education applications and 100 universities that have distance learning sites.

Likewise with the steps taken by XL Axiata which has also prepared an adequate network in all service areas, including alerting the network team 24 hours a day. In addition, if there is a significant increase in traffic, XL Axiata is also ready to increase network capacity.

"Access to a number of data services has indeed improved, especially browsing information via Google, as well as the traffic on Whatsapp, as well as social media such as Facebook and Twitter, which is getting stronger compared to normal days. We will continue to monitor developments related to the dynamics of the community implementing work. from home and the application of learning at home for students and university students, "said Chief Technology Officer of XL Axiata, I Gede Darmayusa in an official statement received by VOI.

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- Ministry of Communication and Information (@kemkominfo) March 16, 2020

In an effort to reduce the burden on the community through this difficult time, to keep them connected while doing work from home, studying from home, and reducing social contacts as a policy issued by the government, Indosat Ooredoo also has its flagship program in this regard.

Like the performance of the telecommunications network, similar to what XL Axiata has done, Indosat is also ready to expand its network. As for providing free telephone services to the Halo Ministry of Health hotline number. Where if the public needs information or support from the Ministry of Health, Indosat Ooredoo provides free telephone access to the Corona Virus 119 ext 9 hotline or 1500-567.