Like the radio, before the reform era television broadcasting was also regulated by the government through Directorate General of Radio, Television, and Film of the Department of Information, but currently regulated by the KPI as well as the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology for frequency matters. Television and radio traditionally have been dominated by government networks, but private commercial channels have been emerging since the introduction of RCTI in the Jakarta area in 1988.Kuipers, Joel C. "Post and Telecommunications". In Indonesia: A Country Study (William H. Frederick and Robert L. Worden, eds.). Library of Congress Federal Research Division (2011). By early in the new century, the improved communications system had brought television signals to every village in the country, and most Indonesians could choose from 11 channels.
