Pursuing Gas Targets Of 2.5 Million Households, PGN And Surge Kembangkan Bundling Gas And Internet Networks

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JAKARTA - PT PGN Tbk and PT Solusi Sinergi Digital Tbk (Surge) signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding the Cooperation for the Development of Gas Pipeline Networks and the Provision of ICT Services for the Household and Commercial Sectors.

The signing was carried out by PGN's Director of Strategy and Business Development Rosa Permata Sari and SURGE President Director Yune Margatmo.

This collaboration will target 2.5 million households on the island of Java through the provision of internet infrastructure for PGN, where PGN will provide bundling services for gas and internet networks at affordable prices to households.

With this collaboration, it is hoped that it will accelerate penetration and distribution of gas networks and more evenly distributed internet.

In 2023 there will be 835,000 household gas network connections and the Government has set a target for developing a household gas network by 2024 of 2.5 million connections.

One of the efforts made is to involve Surge in providing an attraction to accelerate the development of household gas networks that provide added value to households through affordable internet services.

This cooperation is part of PGN's affordable and modern solution in utilizing natural gas as daily energy. Natural gas or Gaskita which is distributed to customers' homes that are available 24 hours will be equipped with internet additional services that are beneficial for customers," said PGN's Director of Strategy and Business Development, Rosa Permata Sari in her official statement, Monday 18 December.'

He explained that the jargas and internet bundling packages are also expected to increase the share of the natural gas market, especially households. Through jargas, PGN wants natural gas as clean energy to be utilized by more extensive households.

"The addition of internet packages is expected to increase people's interest in switching to using natural gas," said Rosa.

Rosa said that the cooperation between PGN and Surge would be important to support the government in encouraging the use of natural gas through gas lines in the country.

The benefits of the jargas program can help reduce LPG imports by 83.5 million kg per year and save the government's energy subsidy costs of IDR 474 billion per year with calculations per number of existing gas network customers.

"The benefits of reducing LPG imports and the cost of energy subsidies will be even greater in line with the increasing number of household connections," concluded Rosa.