Indonesian Payphones
Page under construction
Indonesia’s public telephone network expanded rapidly from the 1970s, supporting the archipalego’s industrial growth and urbanisation. Early coin-operated models gradually gave way to locally manufactured electronic and card-operated payphones by companies such as Tatung and Tecom. Although mobile phones caused a sharp decline from the 2000s, some payphones remain in service today.
| NAME | IMAGE |
| 062-01-PT Subur Semesta Venus Payphones |  |
| 062-05-TAMURA 1980 |  |
| 062-08-TAMURA BLUE 1995 |  |
| 062-09-TAMURA 2000 |  |
| 062-10-BEKEN CARD |  |
| 062-11-Schlumberger Publiphone PF16 |  |
| 062-15-Indonesian HOTEL PHONES |  |
Indonesian phone Booths
| 062-20- INDONESIAN PHONE BOOTHS |  |
| Link- to Journal paper describing PUBLIC TELEPHONES IN JAKARTA 1980-2012 by Sevita Arvianti and Eka Yudha Wibowo (Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia, 2025). Opens as PDF. | “Voice in an Iron Box: The Development of Public Communication through Coin-Operated Public Telephones in Jakarta 1980–2012” — Sevita Arvianti and Eka Yudha Wibowo, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia. Published in JUSPI (Jurnal Sejarah Peradaban Islam), July 2025. |