PALAPA RING RP 975 BILLION CENTRAL PACKAGE COMPLETION IN QUARTER I-2018

[CATEGORY: COMPUTER IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS]

The construction of the Palapa Ring Central Package starts. The winner of this package, the consortium of PT LEN Telekomunikasi Indonesia, has received funds from several parties, namely PT Indonesia Infrastruktur Finance (IFF), Bank Negara Indonesia and PT Sarana Multi Infrastructure syndicated loan with a total fund of Rp 975 billion.

LEN targeting the Central Packages can be finished in the first quarter of 2018. "It's our target," said Raden Wahyu Pantja Gelora, Director of LEN Telekomunikasi Indonesia.

To work on a project worth Rp 1.7 trillion, the institute has coordinated approval of land with four governor and 17 regents and mayors. The goal that the optic cabling passing through each region can be smoothly.

According to Raden, now it was weighing two vendors supplier of optical cable. Just so know, the length of the optical cable to the central package reaches 2,700 kilometers that stretches Kalimantan, Sulawesi and North Maluku.

For a while, he could not tell the identity of the two candidates for the optical cable vendor. Clearly, both these vendors come from abroad, namely Europe and Asia. "We're the comparison carefully, spec which will go," he explained.

Raden admitted, it deliberately did not choose a cable of the country due to the specifications required in this project have not been matched. In addition, the price of the domestic optical cable is more expensive.

Domestic manufacturers can not meet because LEN want optic cable in the Central Packages that can last up to 15 years. Moreover, LEN plans to use fiber-optic cables that no connection.

In order to smoothly, it will survey the condition of the track area of the fiber optic cable. Because the trajectory of these cables will pass Bunaken. "We need to guard a point near Bunaken, because there is no naval mines, the rest of the war of independence," he added.

PT LEN Telekomunikasi Indonesia consortium consisting of PT LEN Industri (51%), PT Teknologi Riset Global Investama (39%), PT. Multi Kontrol Nusantara (5%), and PT. Bina Nusantara Perkasa (5%).

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