Businesses supporting and on the periphery of Indonesia’s telecoms market have been active over the past year as the sector evolved and grew. Firms selling mobile phones or owning and operating base transceiver station (BTS) towers have taken on partners, made significant investments and formed new ventures. These businesses are now in a perfect...
The rise of the smartphone has dealt a blow to the fortunes of BlackBerry globally, and it has been hit especially hard in Indonesia. The country was traditionally one of the best markets for the company. BlackBerry’s market share in the country went from less than 10% to almost half the market in two years to 2011. It has now dropped down to...
Financing the infrastructure sector is a major challenge for Indonesia. The government simply does not have the financial muscle to fund all of the necessary infrastructure projects on its own. According to the Ministry of Public Works, Indonesia requires $192bn of infrastructure investment between 2010 and 2014. The government and state-owned...
As Indonesia develops connectivity domestically, it has to begin thinking about international links. The emphasis to date has been on unifying the nation via the internet, and considerable progress has been made. The building of the internet backbone has been important in getting more of the remote corners of the archipelago online, while...
In a series of bold steps to improve the infrastructure sector in the past few years, Indonesia has introduced regulatory reforms, expanded the space for private sector participation, extended investment risk guarantees, raised tariffs, passed the Land Acquisition Act and simplified registration processes. However, bureaucratic red tape, lack of...
The mobile market in Indonesia is largely dependent on increased use of the right kind of handsets. Operators may be able to supply the bandwidth, but if users do not have devices to take advantage of it the demand will not be there. The country also needs to nurture a stronger data culture if growth is to be achieved. For the operators, without...
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