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The Minister of Communication and Information welcomes the visit of the President of the Philippines

Jakarta, The Indonesia Post – Minister of Communication and Information (Menkominfo) Johnny G.Plate welcomed the arrival of President Filpina H.E. Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos JR at Terminal 3 of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport marked the first visit of the archipelagic nation’s leader to Indonesia.

“I was assigned to pick up Mr. President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos JR. His visit is certainly an honor for Indonesia,” said Minister of Communications and Informatics Johnny at the VVIP Building Terminal 3 Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, after receiving the state visit of the President of the Philippines, Sunday.

According to Johnny, the visit of Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos JR puts Indonesia in a strategic position as a neighboring country to the archipelago.

He also hopes that the visit of the Philippine President will create more cooperation that can be enhanced between Indonesia and the Philippines, including in the digital and telecommunications sectors.

“We certainly hope that there will be a lot of bilateral cooperation that we can do, considering the geographical conditions of the Philippines and Indonesia in the ICT sector are almost similar. Indonesia is an archipelagic country, the Philippines is also an archipelagic country, almost the same,” he said.

One of them is the use of Indonesian satellites for the Philippines which is expected to create new cooperation between the two countries.

Johnny also said that the plan was being drawn up between telecommunications companies from the two countries.

“Next year we will launch two High Throughput Satellites (HTS), with a capacity of 300 Giga bytes per second, some of which have the potential to be used by the Philippines,” he explained.

It is hoped that if this cooperation can be achieved, it will create more equal access for many people considering that telecommunication connectivity is currently an important requirement.

He also assessed that the cooperation between Indonesia and the Philippines in the digital sector would be able to reach remote communities of the two countries.

“We can share these experiences with each other on how to reach the frontier, outermost, underdeveloped areas, both Indonesia and the Philippines,” said Johnny.

When welcoming Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos JR, Minister of Communications and Informatics Johnny G. Plate was accompanied by Secretary General of the Ministry of Communications and Informatics Mira Tayyiba. (ojn/mhn/bbs)

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