Umbrella Prepared Telecommunications Competition Law
Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Body (BRTI) and the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (Commission) began to draw up guidelines for overseeing competition in the telecommunications industry.
BRTI committee member Bambang P. Adiwiyoto said, the guidelines will be in the form of regulations or decisions of the Director General of post and telecommunications minister. Indonesia so far, he added, has no legal grounds to oversee competition in the telecommunications sector although it has a Law No. 5 / 1999 which regulates competition and anti monopoly.
"Competition is happening now is not healthy, that's why surveillance penjabarannya necessary guidelines needed in detail," said Bambang, on the sidelines of the BRTI workshop on 'Guidelines for Control of Competition' at The Sultan Hotel Jakarta, Tuesday (08/21/2007) .
He added that the surveillance conducted by the Commission by Law 5 / 1999 was considered not strong enough and comprehensive. "As a result, monopoly and abuses still occur," he said.
BRTI just started a public consultation period for selecting proposals from various stakeholders on the deliverables that need to be a concern in a healthy competition. Once analyzed, the proposal would be poured into the draft in 2007.
Bambang explained, according to the plan guidelines for the supervision of the competition officially implemented in 2009. To make the guidelines, BRTI submit to the Indonesian Community for the Consumer Compettition (ICCC).
On the same occasion, BRTI member Kamilov Sagala asserted, competition among telecom operators still do not look good in terms of pricing, the service voice and short message service. "That's what makes the persistence of inter-service level agreements that make no fall-down rates," he said.
According Kamilov, if the penalty rules have been defined then the competition certainly will be quite high. Because in it there are thousands of rules that lead to healthy competition, be it in pricing, service delivery and use of infstruktur together.
Unnecessary Details
In response, the Chairman of the Indonesian Cellular Telecommunications Association (ATSI), Bambang Riadhy Oemar said, regulators should only set the strategic aspects only and do not need to be too detailed. "Let this industry develop naturally while the operators are free to be creative for the sake of service as well," he hoped.
He further said that competition guidelines will be made should be implemented consistently to the industry not only on the operator. "However, ATSI full support when regulators set guidelines for the competition," he said.
Meanwhile, Commission Chairman Muhammad Iqbal said the guidelines for telecommunications surveillance is needed because the segment of the discussion more specific and is also capital-intensive industry.
He pointed out, these guidelines are necessary for instance to monitor blocking IDD access code, interconnection and other violations. "These violations still occur because the frame work has not been strong competition," said Iqbal.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Telecommunications (Mastel) Wigrantoro Mas Roes Setiadi added, these guidelines are needed for the competition map is not ambiguous, for example between 3G and WiMax services. "It is also worth noting the jurisdiction of the law. The problem is, it's telecommunications sector has become a global business, nothing is foreign owned," he said.
(Source: detikinet)
BRTI committee member Bambang P. Adiwiyoto said, the guidelines will be in the form of regulations or decisions of the Director General of post and telecommunications minister. Indonesia so far, he added, has no legal grounds to oversee competition in the telecommunications sector although it has a Law No. 5 / 1999 which regulates competition and anti monopoly.
"Competition is happening now is not healthy, that's why surveillance penjabarannya necessary guidelines needed in detail," said Bambang, on the sidelines of the BRTI workshop on 'Guidelines for Control of Competition' at The Sultan Hotel Jakarta, Tuesday (08/21/2007) .
He added that the surveillance conducted by the Commission by Law 5 / 1999 was considered not strong enough and comprehensive. "As a result, monopoly and abuses still occur," he said.
BRTI just started a public consultation period for selecting proposals from various stakeholders on the deliverables that need to be a concern in a healthy competition. Once analyzed, the proposal would be poured into the draft in 2007.
Bambang explained, according to the plan guidelines for the supervision of the competition officially implemented in 2009. To make the guidelines, BRTI submit to the Indonesian Community for the Consumer Compettition (ICCC).
On the same occasion, BRTI member Kamilov Sagala asserted, competition among telecom operators still do not look good in terms of pricing, the service voice and short message service. "That's what makes the persistence of inter-service level agreements that make no fall-down rates," he said.
According Kamilov, if the penalty rules have been defined then the competition certainly will be quite high. Because in it there are thousands of rules that lead to healthy competition, be it in pricing, service delivery and use of infstruktur together.
Unnecessary Details
In response, the Chairman of the Indonesian Cellular Telecommunications Association (ATSI), Bambang Riadhy Oemar said, regulators should only set the strategic aspects only and do not need to be too detailed. "Let this industry develop naturally while the operators are free to be creative for the sake of service as well," he hoped.
He further said that competition guidelines will be made should be implemented consistently to the industry not only on the operator. "However, ATSI full support when regulators set guidelines for the competition," he said.
Meanwhile, Commission Chairman Muhammad Iqbal said the guidelines for telecommunications surveillance is needed because the segment of the discussion more specific and is also capital-intensive industry.
He pointed out, these guidelines are necessary for instance to monitor blocking IDD access code, interconnection and other violations. "These violations still occur because the frame work has not been strong competition," said Iqbal.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Telecommunications (Mastel) Wigrantoro Mas Roes Setiadi added, these guidelines are needed for the competition map is not ambiguous, for example between 3G and WiMax services. "It is also worth noting the jurisdiction of the law. The problem is, it's telecommunications sector has become a global business, nothing is foreign owned," he said.
(Source: detikinet)
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