Gigabit December 2018
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PT TELKOM INDONESIA (PERSERO) TBK (TELKOM)<br />
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transformation and development which<br />
prepares for and stays ahead of the<br />
growing digital economy of Indonesia.<br />
As a matter of fact, the company’s<br />
vision of becoming the ‘King of Digital<br />
in the Region’ will see TelkomGroup<br />
become the top 10 market capitalisation<br />
telco in Asia-Pacific by 2020. This<br />
is a relatively short timeframe but<br />
Somad Arief believes that <strong>2018</strong> will<br />
go down in the company’s history as<br />
a crucial year. “This year has been our<br />
initial year as we began our journey to<br />
creating this global digital hub and it’s<br />
the year in which we aggressively built<br />
the digital infrastructure,” he says. “But<br />
of course, the infrastructure is only the<br />
foundation. Now it’s time to build on that<br />
foundation and fill the ecosystem.<br />
“Our immediate goal is to complete<br />
our connectivity infrastructure through<br />
our data centres. We have 11 in Indonesia,<br />
but the Group has five across<br />
Singapore, Hong Kong and Timor Leste<br />
which are seamlessly connected. So, for<br />
us, 2019 is the time to fill this infrastructure<br />
with the players and to begin this<br />
ecosystem of collaboration.” The<br />
presence of neucentrIX as a neutral<br />
data centre and internet exchange and<br />
DECEMBER <strong>2018</strong>
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