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The Jakarta Post's Article

Indosat Expects to raise Rp 1.3 trillion from TBIG sales

Mariel Grazella, the Jakarta Post Business Sat, March 15 2014, 10:28 AM

Mobile phone operator PT Indosat (ISAT) will be using Rp 1.39 trillion ( USD$122.40 million) of  funds gained from a planned sale of shares in a tower company to partially pay debt that are due this year.

In an announcement posted via The Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in Friday, indosat disclosed that it would be selling its entire 239,826,310 shares in tellecomunication tower company PT Tower Bersama Infrastructure (TBIG).

Tha Shares, equivalent to 5 percent of Tower Bersama’s capital, were collected by indosat in 2012, when the operator sold 2,500 of its towers to Tower Bersama. The latter paid indosat an upfront fee of $406 million as well as the newly issued shares.

The operator has appointed Merrill Lynch (Singapore) Pte.Ltd, as its sole placement agent and SLA Singapore Pte.Ltd. as the co-lead manager. The transaction in scheduled to close next Wednesday.

“we formally announced our plans to the Financial Services Authority (OJK) today (Friday), “indosat finance director Stefan Carlsson said. He added that the operator had been considering selling the shares for the past six to nine month, as the firm never intended to act as a long-term shareholder or financial investor.

“we took stake in Tower Bersama during the tower deal to ensure a good partnership with them, enjoy upside value from the shares.” he said.

Indosat, as the anchor tenet of the 2,500 towers, had signed new lease agreements, carrying a minimum period 10 years, with Tower Bersama during the deal.

Meanwhile, Tower Bersama’s share price hovered around the 3,000 range in 2012. In this sale, however, share’s will be offered at 5,800 apiece.

Carlsson said the disposal of the shares was so as to meet this year’s funding needs, especially network expansions. “We have debt maturing and capital expansions as part of our financial plans, and the sale proceeds will be used to cover a combination of both,” he said, adding that sourcing funds from the sale would reduce the firm’s borrowing figures.

He pointed out that this year, indosat estimated capital expenses of Rp 8 trillion to Rp 9 trillion in capital, close to the amount spent last year. He further added that the operator faced approximately Rp 6 trillion in maturing debts this year.

“we are considering refinancing between Rp 5 trillion and Rp 6 trillion, depending on our cash flow. “he said, adding that Indosat expected no “big debt reductions” given the hefty capital costs.

He pointed out that as of 2013, gross debt stood at Rp 27.7 trillion, which would have been 8 percent lower if not for the “accounting” losses due to higher foreign exchange rates.

At the end of 2013, Indosat reported net losses of Rp 2.782 trillion, despite a 6.4 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to Rp 23.8 trillion, due to foreign exchange losses of Rp 2.786 trillion.

“However, around Rp 3.9 trillion of our gross debt was not real debt, but financial leasing on the towers. Roughly half of the balance after the reduction was US-denominated debt,” he said.

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Source :

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/03/15/indosat-expects-raise-rp-13-trillion-tbig-sales.html

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY

In this era of globalization, certainly an awful lot of growing media influence, especially in the development of technology. We all know, in the previous era, mobile phones are the most famous of the communications media, but of course as a result of further development of the age of mobile technology is not sufficient for telecommunications media, so now internet technology is the most famous media influence.

Here, I'll take a small example that real often we see as a result of technological developments, perhaps even our own experience. In the past, children often seen playing together a traditional game held our nation. They often forget the time because it was too busy playing with his friends. But, if we see today, many children who busy themselves with his gadget, and do not care about his around. In the past, people went on foot or riding a bike, in addition to healthy also not throwing pollution into the air. However, now people prefer going to use a motor vehicle when the distance is close enough.

The example above is some of negative impact on the development of technology. Various consequences are sort of threat, but of course can be a medium that is able to simplify life, if the user can utilize the medium of the media correctly. Of course, not easy to fend off the growing influence of the media, we should do is utilize existing media correctly and not damage the quality of our self.

In later times, the negative outside influences development of increasingly sophisticated technology, humans are expected to bring the country is more advanced that our country is not left behind by other countries. In addition, hopefully in the future we can become a state capable of creating something that will benefit all the people around the world.

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