 The tax was abolished sometime in the 1980s.Possibly shortly after TVRI begun broadcasting in 1962, the television fee later was also introduced.Originally the TVRI Foundation ("Yayasan TVRI") was assigned to collect the fee, but in 1990 President Suharto enacted a presidential statement to gave fee collecting authority to Mekatama Raya, a private company run by his son Sigit Harjojudanto and Suharto's cronies, in the name of TVRI Foundation starting in 1991.