ndosat Oredoo Tbk hopes to win the east-section of Palapa Ring project tender. This is the second time the tender has been offered; the previous tender failed to attract submissions due to its unrealistic project value and data.
According to Indosat president director Alexander Rusli, the east-section project requires a 6,300 km fiber optic to connect East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, West Papua and Papua. The submarine communications cable will also have landing points on several islands.
“It was the kind of unrealistic tender where nobody wanted to put in a bid. With revised data, the results of the second tender will be announced around June. We have put forward our bid, hopefully we will win,” he said during The Jakarta Post 33rd anniversary event on Monday in Jakarta.
The Palapa Ring will be the infrastructure backbone of the internet connection in Indonesia. “The focus is to get those islands connected. We will get the money from the service that will be built through the backbone,” Rusli told thejakartapost.com. (ags)
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