20 Facts About Telkom Indonesia

1.

PT Telkom Indonesia Tbk, simply known as Telkom, is an Indonesian multinational telecommunications conglomerate.

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2.

Telkom Indonesia has major business lines in fixed line telephony, internet, and data communications.

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3.

Since 2008, Telkom Indonesia began changing its business focus, infrastructure, systems, organization, and human resources, as well as the corporate culture, in their effort to face rising competition.

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4.

Telkom Indonesia can be traced back to an establishment of the first electromagnetic telegraph service in Indonesia on 23 October 1856, by the Dutch Colonial Government to connect Batavia and Buitenzorg .

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5.

In 1906, all postal and telegraph services in Telkom Indonesia were taken over by the government as single, unified government agency named Post, Telegraph, and Telephone Service .

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6.

Until 1995, Telkom Indonesia's operations were organized along twelve regional operating units known as Wilayah Telekomunikasi or Witel.

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7.

In 1995, Telkom Indonesia reorganized the twelve Witels into seven regional divisions and one network division.

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8.

Under a series of Cooperation Agreements, Telkom Indonesia transferred the right to operate five of its seven regional divisions to private sector consortia.

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9.

On 14 November 1995, Telkom became a privatized company when shares went on sale through an Initial public offering on the Jakarta Stock Exchange and the Surabaya Stock Exchange .

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10.

Telkom Indonesia's shares are listed on the NYSE and the LSE in the form of American depositary shares, and were publicly offered without listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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11.

Telkom Indonesia eventually acquired control of its KSO partners in Regions I, III, and VI, and amended the terms of the KSO agreements with its KSO partners in Regions IV and VII to obtain legal rights to control the financial and operating decisions of those regions.

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12.

Since 5 June 2014, Telkom Indonesia shares are no longer traded on the London Stock Exchange, and since 16 May 2014, they cease to be registered on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan.

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13.

In 1999, Telkom Indonesia passed a deregulating telecommunication law that set in motion a sweeping array of reforms and enlivened competition policy, private investment, and long term industry direction.

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14.

On 7 June 2004, Telkom Indonesia began to provide their own international direct dial fixed line services.

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15.

In 2009, Telkom Indonesia started doing the business transformation of the only company in the field of telecommunications to a broader range of business, the company expanded to the telecommunications, information technology services, media and edutainment.

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16.

In March 2019, Telkom Indonesia was one of the first Asian telcos to launch a cloud gaming service in cooperation with Gamestream.

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17.

Telkom Indonesia is a dominant and largest provider of fixed line services due to owning most of Indonesia's copper network.

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18.

Telkom Indonesia businesses are operated under government regulation by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information.

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19.

Telkom Indonesia is the parent company of the Telkom Group, which is engaged in a wide range of businesses that consist of telecommunication, information, multimedia, property, and financial services.

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20.

Telkom Indonesia mainly operates in fixed line telephony, internet and data communications business, while other businesses are run by subsidiaries.

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