The new organizational structure of "Kominfo" ministry will come into force in 2011, the division says in its official press release, posted on its website this weekend.
The announcement on the restructurization of the ministry, it adds, was made when Communication and Informatics Minister Tifatul Sembiring met the press on Wednesday (Dec 29) for a year-end briefing on the achievements and performance of the ministry during year 2010.
The upcoming new structure will consist of Secretariat General, Inspectoral General, Directorate General of Resources and Instruments of Post and Informatics, Directorate General of Post and Informatics Implementation, Directorate General of Informatics Application, Directorate General of Public Information and Communication and Human Resources Research & Development Agency.
The previous structure of the Ministry was Secretariat General, Inspectorate General, Directorate General of Post and Telecommunications, Directorate General of Telematics Application, Directorate General of Communication Means and Information Disseminations, Public Information Agency and Human Resources Research & Development Agency.
In 2010 the ministry has completed the establishment of 5,748 internet-based villages throughout the territory of Indonesia. Some 16 informative-villages have been completed until December 2010 out of the total 500 such villages to be built until 2015.
After the try-out of digital television successively as from August 2008 to May 2009, Indonesia began the digital television transmission of state television TVRI, launched formally by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on 21 December 2010.
In the diplomacy front, Indonesia was re-elected the Board member of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the congress of ITU in Mexico 2010 with the highest rating of its region.
The ministry has also started the Electronic System of Goods and Services Procurement (or SePP), a system intended to promote and support the procurement on basis of real-time, on-line and objective.
(T.KR-VFT/H-NG/F001/P003)
Editor: Priyambodo RH
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