DCI Indonesia, The Company Whose Shares Are Owned By The Conglomerate Anthony Salim, Its Profits Grow 55 Percent In The First Quarter Of 2021

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JAKARTA - The data center service provider company in Indonesia, PT DCI Indonesia Tbk (DCI), recorded net profit growth of 55 percent (year on year/yoy) in the first quarter of 2021.

The CEO of DCI, Toto Sugiri, said that DCI can serve the needs of customers with an available capacity of 37 MW and leads the Indonesian co-location data center market share of 51 percent, in line with the increasing market demand for co-location data center services.

"DCI was able to maintain healthy profitability in a challenging market dynamic", Toto said in his statement, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, June 8.

Toto further announced the company's financial performance in the first quarter of 2021 by posting an increase in revenue of 25 percent to IDR 171 billion, compared to the first quarter of 2020. Then, EBITDA in the first quarter of 2021 was IDR 80.5 billion

Toto added, DCI will carry out several business strategies in responding to market demand. Some of them increase technological innovation by implementing automation in data center operations in order to avoid human errors and improve operational efficiency, as well as strengthen the diversity of the ecosystem in the data center.

In addition, DCI will continue to contribute to Indonesia's digital economy infrastructure while building new steps to consistently become a data center company with the best operational quality in Southeast Asia.

In the next few years, the company is committed to building a data center in a sustainable manner on an area of 8.5 hectares by presenting a total data center capacity of 300 MW.

In addition to focusing on building data center infrastructure in a sustainable manner, DCI also presents the most complete local data center ecosystem in Indonesia.

To date, the company's services have been trusted by international and local companies, including 3 global cloud service providers, 7 e-commerce platforms including the largest e-commerce platforms in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, more than 30 telecommunication service providers, 124 customers from the financial industry (covering well-known banks from the United States, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia), as well as more than 100 customers from various industries.

Toto further said that in accordance with DCI's vision to become a trusted data center service provider in Southeast Asia, the company is committed to bringing the data center industry one step further in terms of the best data center operational excellence by maintaining 100 percent uptime.

"The uptime rate for Service Level Agreement (SLA) operations is 100 percent. We can achieve this through operational implementation and service excellence, which is always one step ahead by making various technological innovations", he said.

Datacenter technology innovation carried out by the company by implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technology so that there are no incidents that disrupt the company's IT infrastructure operations and improve energy efficiency in the data center. DCI has also inaugurated the fourth data center building (JK5) in the data center campus area located in Cibitung.

For information, the conglomerate Anthony Salim has increased his ownership of shares in PT DCI Indonesia Tbk. The Indofood boss is now holding DCII's shares to 11.12 percent.

Based on information disclosure on the Indonesia Stock Exchange website, quoted on Friday, June 4, Anthony Salim transferred ownership of 192.74 million shares of DCII. The purchase price is set at IDR 5.277, so the transaction carried out by the Salim Group officials is worth IDR 1.01 trillion.

Prior to the transfer, Anthony Salim owned 72.29 million shares of DCII, or 3.03 percent of the total shares. After the transfer, now the taioan owns 11.12 percent of DCII's shares or 265.03 shares.

"The purpose of the transaction is to invest in technology", wrote one of the richest people in Indonesia.