Ministry interns reveal gaps in Indonesia's telecom tower registration data management
Interns building the ministry's tower registration system cited no automated data checks, inconsistent standards across tower providers, and unclear access controls, presenting to the communications minister.
Two interns at the Communications and Digital Ministry's Digital Infrastructure Services Directorate presented their work on the national telecom tower registration system at a ministry town hall on Monday, held in front of Minister Meutya Hafid. The system covers submission workflows, multi-role user structures, access rights and GIS-based tower locations. Their presentation named three standing problems: no automated validation of submitted data, inconsistent data standards between passive infrastructure providers, and insufficiently managed access rights.
The remarks amount to an implicit acknowledgment from inside the regulator that national tower infrastructure data — covering hundreds of thousands of sites owned by tower companies — is still managed manually with limited validation. That points toward eventual modernization of registration and monitoring systems, which would touch both tower companies and the operators leasing their sites through tighter data requirements. Intern-built systems also face the standard caveats: this was a presentation at a public event, not a published policy, and no procurement or system tender has been announced. A separate intern project presented at the same event applied AI to detect online gambling content.