Analog TV broadcasts in the Jakarta area will be turned off starting tomorrow, on August 25, 2022. From that date onwards, analog TV broadcasts are replaced with digital TV broadcasts that offer better broadcast quality than before.The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government (Pemprov) has also stated its readiness to implement Analog Switch Off (ASO) in its territory."ASO in Jakarta on August 25, hopefully ASO in Jakarta will run smoothly. Jakarta is certainly in an effort to stop the broadcasting of analog broadcasting technology and the migration of digital technology broadcasting, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government continues to support the mandate of the law with the hope that the ASO national program This can be done well, DKI Jakarta Regional Secretary (Sekda) Marullah Matali in Jakarta, last weekend.Marullah said the transfer of broadcast technology from analog to digital is a necessity.He conveyed that Jakarta is ready to turn off analog TV broadcasts and replace digital TV, the local government has a role in socializing to the community to distributing free digital TV set top boxes to poor households.Through the Communications and Information Service, DKI Jakarta Provincial Government, Marullah said that he had verified and determined the amount of aid for poor households in his area according to the central government's criteria, it reached 123,888, where they have analog TVs in their homes."However, the information we have currently received is that 50,059 households are the recipients of the free digital TV set top box assistance. So, this is less than half. 30 thousand residents, not including 50,059 households," he said.Seeing that there is an imbalance in the number of target recipients of free set top box assistance, Marullah hopes that in the future there will be an expansion of digital TV signal infrastructure and also the poor."Hopefully the people of DKI Jakarta will enjoy higher quality television broadcasts, namely digital TV," he said.For information, this analog to digital TV migration has been mandated by Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation and Government Regulation Number 46 of 2021 concerning Post, Telecommunications, and Broadcasting (Postelsiar).The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kominfo) has decided to stop broadcasting analog TV and switch to digital TV broadcasting not in three more stages, but in multiple ASO.What is multiple ASO?The migration process for analog TV to digital has actually been going on since April 30, which was included in the implementation of Phase 1 of ASO. However, when it was implemented, out of 56 broadcast areas in 166 districts, only four broadcast areas were carried out in eight districts/cities.Now ahead of the implementation of the ASO Phase on August 25, Kominfo has changed the method of stopping analog TV broadcasts by means of multiple ASO.Multiple ASO is the application of cessation of analog TV broadcasts which is carried out continuously until the deadline for broadcasting migration on November 2, 2022."For us to digitize television in Indonesia, it has been decided that it will be carried out in multiple stages or multiple stages, multiple ASO," said Minister of Communications and Informatics Johnny G. Plate."A lot of ASO will be carried out according to the readiness of the region. Technically, analog will turn on and off, depending on technical problems. Until one day on a certain date it is announced to be full ASO," he continued.