TLKM’s Indihome business is under threat again, now it’s Jasa Marga’s turn (JSMR) for Internet business

Reporter: Aziz Husaini | Editor: Aziz Husaini

KONTAN.CO.ID -JAKARTA. Indihome Business PT Telkom Indonesia Tbk (TLKM) will really get tough competition from colleagues and fellow State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN). Previously from a subsidiary of the State Electricity Company, now it comes from another BUMN.

Is PT Jasa Marga Tbk (JSMR) through its subsidiary PT Jasa Mrga Related Bisnis (JMRB) which will be serious about doing internet business by building fiber optic for internet data along the Trans Java toll road. Currently, Jasa Marga controls the length of the Trans Java toll road of 1,167 kilometers (km).

Subakti Syukur President Director of PT Jasa Marga Tbk said that JMRB as a subsidiary of JSMR that utilizes Jasa Marga’s toll road infrastructure is trying to take advantage of all the existing potential.

He said that JMRB did not go directly into the internet business. “But providing infrastructure back bone fiber optic which is used for data because JSMR has the advantage of having the longest toll road infrastructure that spans the island of Java,” he said to KONTAN, Wednesday (23/6).

Currently, said Subakti, and for the future, the potential for internet data business will be even greater along with the number of online, mobile and internet applications, especially with the existence of 5G infrastructure in the future.

Subakti said, JMRB’s business is to develop areas along the toll road including TOD. “For more details, you can ask the Director of JMRB,” he said.

Not only JSMR’s subsidiary. A subsidiary of PT PLN is also preparing to fight Indihome’s dominance in the fiber optic data package business.

Icon+ President Director Yuddy Setyo Wicaksono said that the area for Iconnet internet is not yet wide, including in DKI Jakarta. “Indeed, this is new, in January 2020 our retail customers were only 178 customers, by the end of 2020 there were 17,000 customers,” he explained.

Yuddy said that for this year his party is targeting 100,000 customers. However, seeing the enthusiasm of the community to install Iconnet, Iconnet will revise the RKAB to be more than 100,000 target customers this year.

Meanwhile, corporate customers currently reach 1,000 companies. “We will continue to expand Iconnet’s internet coverage so that it can reach a wider range of customers,” he explained.

With this plan, Iconnet targets revenues of up to Rp 5.1 trillion this year.