New telecommunications regulations in Indonesia

The Minister of Communications and Information issued Regulation No. 38 of 2014 as an amendment to Regulation No. 01/PER/M.KOMINFO/01/2010 on Organizing Telecommunications Networks. Amendments have been made to the following matters, among others:

• Telecommunications networks which do not need a certain radio frequency spectrum, area code and/or network access code to be allocated to them are restricted and permits must be issued through a selection process. The in-principle license is valid for 3 years, extendable once for 1 year.
• Permits for telecommunications networks for which a certain radio frequency spectrum, area code, and/or network access code does not need to be allocated will be issued after evaluation. Applications for an in-principle license for this type of network can be submitted at any time. The in-principle license is valid for 2 years, extendable once for 6 months.