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Minister of Communication and Informatics Johnny G Plate. (ANTARA/HO-Kominfo/rst) - 

Communication and Informatics Minister Johnny G. Plate encouraged related stakeholders to consolidate to realize the management of the Sea Cable Communication System (SKKL) to support the national digital transformation agenda.

"This digital transformation is for the benefit of the country as well as for our national company. Now is the time for consolidation, especially in the telecommunications industry," Plate stated at the SKKL meeting with cellular operators in Jakarta on Friday.

Coordination and consolidation of all fiber optic telecommunications service providers, especially SKKL, is deemed necessary in order to accelerate the ongoing digital transformation, he remarked.

"Let us consolidate for the telecommunications industry. This is because we are entering a new stage, specifically transformation and acceleration of digital transformation," Plate noted.

The minister remarked that one of the challenges in managing SKKL was the imbalance between the domestic and international bandwidth per capita.

In comparison with 2019, the bandwidth capacity per capita only reached around 0.063, with a low ranking in the ASEAN. Plate attributed this to the large area and population of Indonesia.

"We need 55 Tbps of bandwidth capacity for the government projects in 2025. In 2020, our capacity reaches only 18.1 Tbps, which means we need a huge capacity, three folds higher than the capacity in 2020, in the next four or three years," he remarked.

Plate emphasized that the government was currently working for the interests of the state and society. However, the government still pays attention to industrial developments.

The minister noted that currently, Indonesia should prioritize the acceleration of digital transformation to respond to the national interests as well as maintain the SKKL.

"That is why today I want to talk about SKKL. I receive information that Indonesia's international bandwidth capacity is currently quite large, though per capita not being large enough. We must fix that," he stressed//ANT