The Indonesian government plans to provide free wi-fi hotspots to half of Bandung’s housing communities (RW) this October. As many as 1,563 out of 3,958 housing communities in Bandung will be equipped with the free hotspots in conjunction with the government’s RW-net program, which will function as an e-payment platform for household bills [1].
According to Okezone, Edi Siswadi, the area secretary of Bandung explained yesterday :
The hotspot installment in all these housing communities is the only one [program made] in Indonesia, even developed cities such as London haven’t thought about this yet.
This is definitely great news for Bandung citizens, and especially for all you geeks who live there (i.e. the folks we’re reaching out to with our upcoming Startup Asia Bandung event this October, for example!). The Indonesian government is spending a lot of money in building IT infrastructure all over the country.
Last February another Indonesian city, Solo, also announced that it’s setting up the longest wi-fi hotspot road, as long as 10 km starting this November. And just recently, we heard about internet-equipped cars being distributed to remote areas all over Indonesia.
[Source: Okezone, image: ya2oke.blogspot]
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The total number of housing communities in Bandung is based on the 2009 statistics shown on the West Java’s government website. ↩
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