MTDL Expansion to Kalimantan. Metrodata Electronics Tbk (MTDL) sees promising business growth in the marketing area of Kalimantan. They wanted to follow the government’s plan to develop a new capital in the island of Borneo. Incidentally design build government to establish the concept of smart city in line with the scope of business MTDL.
Furthermore, the company hopes to be able to strengthen the opportunity of providing hardware infrastructure, network and information security services. MTDL claims, as a pioneer in the business of providing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) devices in the country. So far, they have reached 20 locations in Indonesia.
For Kalimantan area, MTDL is present in Samarinda (East Kalimantan), Balikpapan (East Kalimantan), Pontianak (West Kalimantan) and Banjarmasin (South Kalimantan). In the MTDL record, the sale of ICT products in Kalimantan has now reached IDR 230 Billion per year. MTDL certainly has plans for expansion into the new capital and is expected to drive increased sales in Kalimantan, said Randy Kartadinata, director of MTDL.
MTDL has not been able to reveal the business development plan in the new capital territory because the implementation of government plans is also not seen. For sure, the management of the company ensures that expansion to Kalimantan will not be difficult because business tenures have formed there. In the financial statement as of June 2019, MTDL did not expose the details of income composition in the country.
They only mention the total domestic income of IDR 6.15 Trillion or 99.84% of the total net income of IDR 6.16 Trillion. Diversification of business. The expansion plan to the new capital became part of the MTDL strategy of the new market. The final goal is to record net income of IDR 25 Trillion in 2023 or increase almost twice the past year’s achievement of IDR 12.71 Trillion.
In addition to hoping for the new capital, MTDL strives by strengthening the sales of the Internet of Things (IoT) products within the distribution business segment. The company among others offers on boarded full Intel Internet of Things Group (IOTG) Silicon product line or IOTG product line. IOTG includes processors, memory, data storage and network building blocks.
MTDL is listed to serve the needs of IoT for various industrial sectors. No exception to the transportation sector. They are for example handling the procurement of CCTV cameras on the integrated Light Rail Transit (LRT) Palembang, South Sumatra and Toll road, Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk (JSMR). MTDL has also implemented technology in the development of smart city concepts in a number of regions.
Last, some of them are solar power technology, smart Surveillance system, traffic monitoring, video analytics based solutions, drone managed services to smart IT infrastructure. By the end of the year 2019, MTDL wanted to record 12% YoY and net income of 12.5% YoY.