The Struggle of Aceh's Inland Residents Find HP Signals at Bukit Hill

Aceh Villagers Melidi Village Simpang Jernih District, East Aceh, Aceh is still limited in terms of communication. For cellular networks, they must first go up a hill. Itupun not necessarily signal appears.

Every day, people in rural East Aceh is busy queuing up a hill, known as signal hill. This location is located about half an hour from the township. There, there is no shelter tree. Residents must be willing to heat-panasan in order to signal.

Uniquely, only old-fashioned mobile phones are getting a signal. Android and advanced mobile phones will not find any signal at all. Coming to Bukit Sinyal, residents put HP on prepared wood. In the location, there are two woods that are made specifically as a place to put a cell phone.

If it is placed there, it can no longer be held. Slightly swayed, the signal immediately disappeared. If the signal is obtained, the residents speak by turning on the speaker on the phone. Sometimes, again fun talking suddenly disconnected because the signal lost.

Here the signal ran. Sometimes it can sometimes not. If it is cloudy until a day can not, sometimes we go home, said a resident Melidi Village, Salim (42) when found AFP.

Salim came to Bukit Sinyal to call his son a high school in Aceh Tamiang district. To get a signal, Salim waited for about thirty minutes. Once connected, he asked for the child's needs and health conditions of the baby.

Call him if necessary for example at 12 noon we have to come before 12 o'clock. Sometimes not necessarily 12 o'clock. If necessary fast sometimes sometimes can not, explained Salim.

Salim willing hot-panasan there for the sake of hearing the baby. Cloth is used to cover his face to avoid the afternoon sun sting. In this village, only residents in there who can call while unable to receive a call if it has come down from Bukit Sinyal.

For the sake of any child we do despite the heat like this. Call a week to three times, because school children sometimes need money or needs. If the money can be sent because we are also not capable people. We send from here the same people, later we call him (the child) ordered to take, said Salim....

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