Jakarta (ANTARA) - State-owned postal company PT Pos Indonesia continues to enhance partnerships with individuals and business entities in a bid to expand its logistics services to underdeveloped, frontier, and outermost (3T) areas.

Director of Courier and Logistics Business of Pos Indonesia Siti Choiriana noted that Pos Indonesia is expanding its network by increasing the number of agents, women couriers, and drop points as a form of empowerment for micro-businesses.

"We are doing it, so that 514 districts and cities, with nine thousand sub-districts and 73 thousand villages, can be covered. That is why we are collaborating," she noted in a statement here on Saturday.

Choiriana explained that Pos Indonesia, as part of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), had reached an agreement with all world postal companies to provide services to the public to send letters and packages.

If there is a letter or package from Washington, D.C., the United States, to Puncak Jaya in Papua, then Pos Indonesia must send it, although it is considered as a 3T area.

"We, as a company that has an obligation to the UPU international agreement, must carry out that task," she stressed.

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As of late July 2022, more than one million MSMEs and 4,700 corporations have used Pos Indonesia's courier and logistics services, and Pos Indonesia held 7.1 percent of the national market share.

The company currently has national and international networks that guarantee the delivery of goods to remote areas of the country and up to 228 destination countries in the world.

In addition, Pos Indonesia has more than 50 thousand agents, 27,600 drop points, around 10 thousand couriers, 4,594 post offices, 151 warehouses, and up to 510 billers of financial services.

Choiriana said there are almost two thousand post office points located in 3T areas.

"We continue to collaborate with other parties, including the community, private parties, and MSME players, to add service points," she affirmed.

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Translator: Sugiharto Purnama, Raka Adji
Editor: Suharto
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