Telkomsel Launches "Lean Building" in Makassar

The new office building in Makassar Telkomsel unique to the shape of a parallelogram so-called tilted building.

Source : MAKASSAR, KOMPAS.com

Telkomsel inaugurated the new office building in Makassar. Building named "Baruga Telkomsel" This will be the center of sales activity, customer service, network operations, and account management for the area of ​​Papua, Maluku, Sulawesi and Kalimantan (Pamasuka).

Telkomsel until now has 24.1 million subscribers in the region Pamasuka, with 5.1 million subscribers spread across South and West Sulawesi in the Makassar Branch under the service area. Construction of new building is expected to provide services for all customers in the region Pamasuka.

It is delivered Sarwoto Atmosutarno, President Director of Telkomsel. "Papua, Maluku, Sulawesi and Kalimantan, an area that promises to grow the business. Therefore, through the construction of this building, SingTel hopes to provide communications services to customers in Eastern Indonesia to facilitate business activities and everyday communications," said Sarwoto House Baruga Telkomsel, Andi Pangerang Pettarani street, No. 3, Makassar, on Monday (8/15/2011).

He added that construction of this building is a form of synergy of Telkom Group, namely Telkom, Telkomsel and PT Graha Sarana Duta. Building area of 4780 square meters is built on a land area of 5220 square meters owned by PT Telkom Indonesia and will be assigned to 1300 employees.

Baruga in Bugis language means "gathering place". This building is expected to be a gathering place for area Pamasuka service. Construction of this building began in May 18, 2010 and was completed June 1, 2011. Baruga building designed in the form of a parallelogram (rhomboid) so that the people of Makassar called it "the building tilted".

"This building reflects the form of technology to bring Telkomsel to meet the needs of telecommunications access in eastern Indonesia. We hope this building can also become an icon of new infrastructure in Makassar," said Sarwoto.

Telkomsel building developments in Makassar he started since 24 September 1996, when Telkomsel has only representative offices of the shop (store house) with three doors for ministry. In 1998, the building moved to Sucofindo Telkomsel. "After it moved again to the House Pelni. New this year, Telkomsel had its own building in Makassar," recalls Sarwoto.

On this day also, Telkomsel has completed construction of Network Operations Building located at Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD), South Jakarta. The building will be the center of the operational activities of Telkomsel's network and launched simultaneously with the inauguration Baruga Telkomsel. The procession marked the inauguration of the building by doing a video conference by the President Director of Telkomsel from Baruga Telkomsel Telkomsel Makassar with Operations Director Ng Kee Kwon in the building BSD, Tangerang.