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Indonesia’s telecommunication authorities are temporarily banning the import of new BlackBerry phone devices this week. The main issue at hand is the delayed opening of a phone service center in the island nation. Indonesia’s telecommunication authorities are temporarily stopping the import of new BlackBerry models from July 16 until the manufacturing company, Research In Motion (RIM), sets up a local after-sales service center for the thousands of Indonesians who use the mobile phone device. Indonesias Department of Communication and Information Technology says the Canadian device maker has not met a July 1 deadline to set up its wholly-owned center, which would be similar to another center in neighboring Singapore. [Gatt Dewa Broto, Dept. of Comm. & Information Technology]: First, we are still allowing the import of existing models that we have certified. Second, we have asked the company to provide after-sales services similar to the Singapore center so that we don’t need to send to Singapore if a unit is faulty. Third, we are banning imports, we are not certifying new products until they open a local center. Indonesia has limited Internet presence and the BlackBerry wireless device is popular as it allows users to access the Internet, conduct online chats, write e-mails and other cyberspace activities. The number of BlackBerry users has grown from 100000 at the start of 2009 to about 400000 by the end of June. The government warned RIM to set up the after-sales center …