Good afternoon, and hello, everyone. Welcome to Bahana Sekuritas Corporate Access Group call. Thank you for spending your valuable time to join us today. My name is Nicolas. I am the research analyst covering telco, tower, and tech at Bahana Sekuritas. Today, I will be serving as your moderator. Please join me in welcoming today's speaker, Bapak Hartono Tanuwidjaja, Director of PT Sarana Menara Nusantara and Chief of Staff, accompanied by Bapak Adam Ghifari, Advisor of PT Sarana Menara Nusantara and Group Investor Relations, who will present the company's full year 2025 financial result, operational performance, and outlook for 2026. Without further ado, Pak Hartono, Pak Adam, the floor is yours. Please, Pak.
Thank you, Nico. Hi, everyone. Pak Hartono is sitting next to me due to the technical glitch, so we will be sharing the screen together. It is good that we are next to each other, Pak.
Yeah.
Pak Hartono is our Director and Chief of Staff covering group investor relations. I am Advisor to this role. Let us start with what we have released for our full year 2025 audited results that we announced March 2026, right before Lebaran break. I am going to share my screen. Let us go through the press release that we prepared, and we are going to go through the presentation for the full year. After that we will-
... We will wait for more, if Pak Hartono has more remarks on the result, then we can go to Q&A. As you can see here, we reached a full-year operating revenue of IDR 13.3 trillion, representing a IDR 4.6 trillion increase for 2025 compared to full year 2024. EBITDA reached IDR 10.97 trillion, growing by 2.5%, while net profit after minority interest stood at IDR 3.678 trillion, an increase of 10.3% year-on-year. We think the result is because we look at what we see, what we have. Despite challenging industry and macroeconomic condition, we have refocused on our core strength while improving areas where we can see improvement for better results. We leverage our operational scale. We basically try to get more business by using our scale on towers and fiber, then maintain strict cost management and drive ongoing efficiencies.
As you know, we have a lot of different types of businesses, and we try to combine where we can see synergies between assets that we have. That has been the topic of management doing every week, where we can see efficiencies and try to leverage higher utilization on our assets. We are now given we have 170,000 km of fiber, we have 35,000 towers. We see that we have one of the largest independent digital telecommunication infrastructure provider. Then we have the most comprehensive range of services. So allows us to provide solutions for our clients to operate different conditions, including consolidation or mergers that we have seen recently during 2025. The merger of XL Axiata and Smartfren which opens up significant opportunities.
They need us because more than 50% of their network is on our towers, and they use a lot of our fibers as well. Then we believe, with 5G, further service enhancement will require our involvement with our services and assets, tower and fiber included. Now we see what we expect, for the next 12 months that firstly, we see consolidation can strengthen pricing discipline. I know that for the past quarters we've been talking about pricing discipline. We think we, in the infrastructure space, we are among the leaders of pricing discipline. That yield remain relatively low, but what we provide to the industry is actually something very efficient, compared to where people would go out of pocket, spend their own capital to build towers and fiber. We believe we provide the value for money when it comes to their network enhancement or network expansion.
We think, with competition becoming more healthier, and I think I invite everybody on this call to together monitor this whether 4G and 5G monetization is improving going forward. We see several signs of improvement, but hopefully, for Indonesians give that the unique position as the fourth-largest country in the world. We think, we should be monetizing this position better for everyone, for the telcos, for the fiber users, for the internet service providers. Then provide better revenue mix, better revenue growth, and then better OpEx allowance that would work well for our ability to provide services and infrastructure. Second, the continued acceleration of economic digitalization. We are hearing, because of the war, the government is requiring one day of a week that, ASN, the state apparatus to work from home or from anywhere, right?
That would drive further digitalization similar to what we saw in COVID, right Pak Hartono?
Yes. Similar to COVID time.
COVID time. I think there is an increase of dependencies of people using internet, wherever they are, mobile or wired internet. Data traffic is shown to be growing robustly over the years, like double-digit CAGR, and we expect this momentum to continue. The potential rollout of 5G will further support this trend. I think, just as a matter of personal observation, before Lebaran, I experienced very bad 5G. But now after calming down, spending holiday for two weeks, I noticed 5G in Jakarta is getting better. I think that shows that better penetration of infrastructure in places like Jakarta even, will still require more investment, and will be there for people who ever need infrastructure in many forms. Number three, Indonesia is still in the early stages of AI and cloud technology, which will further increase data traffic and the demand for enhanced connectivity.
We expect further traffic growth, and then there will be requirement for data centers, fiber optic and power generations. We have iForte Energi. We have also several other functions under iForte that Pak Hartono can surely add some more on later on during this call. Number four, operators continue to adopt asset-light financial strategies for towers, fiber optic networks, and provision of clean and renewable energy. I think we see this trend to continue. I think the requirement, for instance, they require more dividends out of telcos, right? That means, CapEx per sale should remain low and whatever existing infrastructure should be used more optimized going forward. That's what we see during 2025 and should hopefully continue until 2026 and for the future years. I'm going to move. Pak Hartono, if you want to add something.
Yeah, I think, Pak Adam, it is already well summarized by you. Maybe we can see the highlights and the financial.
Unless there is any discussion.
So I am going to go through the presentation for the fourth quarter, full year audited. So people can see and then we can discuss together. One second. So we have 36,000 towers as of last December. For those of you who have not seen or have not gone through this presentation, we have more than 170,000 fiber optic network as of December. We still maintain a large percentage of our business model under the build-to-suit model for towers and fiber with long-term predictable cash flows. We maintain investment-grade ratings with S&P, even though there was a change in the sovereign rating for Indonesia. But for us, we are still with S&P BBB- , and with Fitch we have a stable outlook and no change in the sovereign ceiling so far with Fitch. T hen for return on investment 8.3%, return on equity 16%.
Stock is included in many of these indices still. ESG footprint with IGX, and then we have a MSCI ESG rating maintained at a single- A. Sustainalytics scored us 24.2. S&P 40. So that is what we have achieved so far when it comes to ESG profile during 2026 and total 2025 and others. I think for number one, capital management, I think we discuss this every week as a managing team. Access to low cost of funding is discussed all the time. We want to be sure that we have the best cost of capital in the country. But in the banking sector, it is pretty much liquid. So liquidity amounts was $1.3 billion equivalent in Rupiah, mostly. Given banks are also having trouble to find other businesses that is as stable as ours. T hen, low-risk business with digital infrastructure business.
High demand, difficult to replace, as we have exhibited with XL and Smartfren merger. Proven possibility of long-term, irrevocable contracts. ESG conscious company, even smaller carbon footprint, I can say. We just discussed with many of our clients, and we have been able to basically make the clients pay for their own electricity. That should improve further our ESG profile in our tower business. Now box number four, the telecom space has come down to three players basically during 2025, as we all know, with the most recent merger, XL and Smartfren. Opportunities for acquisition still exist. We can discuss more later about this. Valuation today is, we have annual free cash flow that funds CapEx, dividend, and share buybacks, and we have been successfully consolidating assets that we see as accretive to the business.
EBITDA and FFO CAGR 11.4% and 8.5%. ROE 2025 of 16% using the most recent numbers. What we intend to do is continue to invest our strong free cash flows, using low cost of capital whenever we need to borrow. Indonesia is still at the start of 5G, if I may say, because we haven't heard anything yet, Pak, when it comes to what is the timeline for 5G-
Yes
... spectrum auction. We still think, largely Indonesia is a 4G country. Penetration for towers is also still pretty much low. I think, for Indonesia, for the continuation of the trajectory is a matter of time because the consolidation has happened. We've been in the business for almost 20 years, and for the longest time we can remember, we were operating with more than 10 at the start of the business. Now we have three telco players, all intended, are very eager to basically monetize whatever they have spent in 4G and 5G so far. Prepare for new opportunities. I think, Pak Hartono, you can add more later on, obviously, foresee number one, expanding product offering. I think for the past quarters, we mentioned about managed services, power as a service, and we have come into clean energy provision for our clients.
Strategy is driven by evolving customer needs, obviously. With high energy prices like now, it should be interesting for people to look into green energy, right, Pak Hartono? Because solar panel, for instance, it's a matter of where we can find suitable property for us to invest in solar panels and then provide our clients and other types of customers, not only telcos, with green energy going forward. Fixed mobile convergence is also there. We can talk about what we see for 2026. 5G obviously represents another set of opportunities. I'm going to skip slide number five. Now slide number six, we have 36,247 towers. I think I can say this number reflects majority, if almost all of Indosat and Hutchison relocation have been fulfilled. We have some carryover into 2026.
We expect the number of towers to increase for 2026 because of completion of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison relocation towers, probably in the hundreds, no longer in the thousands. When we spoke firstly about this, we still have about 1,400 to be completed during 2025. We should be about 400 by now that we should conclude to basically finalize the towers that we built for IOH relocations. The location of the towers, mostly in Java, Bali, NTT, NTB. Sumatra, approximately about 8,200. Kalimantan, 3,000. Maluku, Papua still with the lowest number of towers, given density. Sulawesi, we see this increase approaching that of Kalimantan is quite interesting because of the economic activity in that area, especially mining and then plantations. Our fiber, where we have our fiber.
You see the difference between revenue-generating FTTP is basically where we charge our customers, and then FTTP kilometer pole is the kilometer of physical cable that we own under FTTP category. As you can see, Java utilization is high, Sumatra is high. Bali Nusra is also high. Kalimantan is lower. Sulawesi is a bit lower. It is a function of density, basically, where we see our customers need fiber to the tower as a means of data transport because of data traffic is increasing in those areas. Our build by return strategy. We invest in build-to-suit towers. So in the form of various contracts. Mostly for 2025 is relocations. Then expand fiber optic network, FTTH, and then more solar growth in FTTP. FTTH, we expect to grow quite interesting.
When we say we have fiber, we can also use it for other types of business such as connectivity, right, Pak?
Yep.
During 2012 months, we added 847 towers. So that is short of a couple of hundred towers that we need to conclude for Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison. Then 6,789 km of revenue-generating fiber. We added 9,000 activations. We added 89,000 home connects and then 31,000 home passes. So very good execution on the home connect side. Return that we mostly basically focus on protecting investment-grade ratings. Then we maintain investment-grade ratings. We distributed dividend IDR 1.2 trillion during 2025. Yeah. Based on past quarters results. So diverse product portfolio. So we have 36,000 towers and 60,500 tenants as of December. Tenancy ratio 1.67. 53% of towers located in Java. Just in third quarter, I think this number is 52%, but we added towers more in Java. So that is also an interesting trend. Ending the quarter with 53% of towers located in Java.
MNOs have a growing need for additional scope. Fiber to the tower, basically it's a function of our service to mobile network operators. We have 24,000 kilometers of revenue generating by end of December. Network focus is to support surging data traffic. If data traffic continues to increase, we are hopeful towers and fiber to the tower to be more correlated to that situation. We continue to basically provide the activity leases under long-term contracts, non-cancelable contracts, and opportunity for high utilizations with other fiber solutions for our customers, namely connectivity business. To the right, we saw very nice growth in our connectivity business. Now it's over 25,000 activations. I think this number used to be below 20,000 by December 2024. A very good growth in the connectivity side. FTTH also saw penetration reaching 14%.
I think this number last quarter, third quarter, I mean, was about 12%. Now going into where we spend our money. In 2025, as you can see, the amount of towers for non-towers, CapEx for non-towers is approaching that of towers. For towers tenancy ratios, 1.67, slightly higher than 2024 because we basically restructured some reseller contracts to become direct lease to our towers. We see, in the past we did not count reseller as part of tenancy ratios, but with reseller being direct leased into our towers as part of the XLSmart merger, so tenancy ratio can go up. For fiber to the tower, I think we see impact of mergers. A bit decline to 1.79 from previous year 1.84, but still at a very high utilization ratio approaching 1.8. Now our track record of consistent growth.
We see towers is aging a bit in terms of tenants. As you can see, the darker blue chart there. With towers start to grow again after years of stagnant performance because of the years of Indosat merger. As you can see here, we were very busy with Everybody is busy, actually. Towers and tenancies, how to manage 36,000 towers, relocations. Making sure we are basically getting what is our right under the contracts for towers and fiber has been the theme of 2025. That's why you saw 2025, a growth of 4% revenue. Basically, we look back at what we have in past contracts, and then we basically did a very thorough, very diligent review of what we have under our existing contracts with all of our customers.
From there, we take it that we can charge some money, we can get away from certain penalties, even though the theme of 2024, 2025 was mostly serving for IOH relocations for towers. But we have been able to book higher revenue because of those very strict practices by management. For fiber to the tower, the revenue generating revenue increased by a little bit, about 3% there, so 7,000 km compared to 2024. The number of activations under connectivity actually grow very fast, very quickly. That's almost 9,000 activations during the course of one year because we have been very aggressively utilizing our existing fiber. We opened up new places where we can reach closer to our customers with new offices here at [crosstalk].
Yeah.
... Use our existing fiber as much as we can, work together with our subsidiaries. We have many new names like [audio distortion] during the past year. We have Remala basically helping us utilize our fiber and work together to identify a new location as opposed to working separately in the same market. Strong financial performance. You see the towers have been quite stable. Actually, we inched up a bit to IDR 8.7 trillion. For the yellow bar, which is the non-tower, we actually increased almost 10% there. CAGR, 7% from tower. The non-tower is almost 40%. If you look at the EBITDA growth, CAGR 11.5%, FFO 10.6%.
Actually, given still high interest rate environment, if I may say, during 2025, even though we were among the lowest cost provider when it comes to borrowing costs, we still are seeing FFO growing slower than EBITDA because of high interest rates environment in 2025. There were hopes actually in the market, I think as we all know, everyone, that there was a hope that for rate cut during the year. But it was not sufficient to make it, the FFO grow, as much as we grow EBITDA during 2025. Leverage 3.74 on this page, talking about our balance sheet. During the year, we paid down about IDR 7 trillion. The money from rights issue came in IDR 5.5 trillion. So we paid more than what we received in rights issue money, IDR 5.5 trillion. So we paid down IDR 1.5 trillion more than from our own operations. So leverage came down to 3.74.
Interest coverage ratio 3.9, and borrowing costs at the end of 2025 was 6.0%. If you remember, this number used to be 6.5% at the start of 2025. So we cut down to 6.0%. I think we see a very close resemblance of what we saw in policy rate cut in Indonesia by Bank Indonesia. So we utilize different types of borrowing structures, going into the bond market, going into the money market with the banks, going into different types of structure. Even though I don't remember seeing going into foreign exchange transactions during 2025, because Rupiah was so interesting to borrow in, rather than going into Forex market and then hedge it back to Rupiah. So we used mostly Rupiah during 2025, basically. Corporate ratings remain BBB- with S&P, Fitch AAA, and Fitch Global BB B flat. This is a summarized profit and loss.
I think when it comes to performance of the company, revenues, gross income, EBITDA, I think we have been exhibiting a very good performance, given where our competition is when it comes to these kind of metrics. Net income margins 27%. I've been getting questions about tax expense. I can say it's rather difficult to project when it comes to tax expense, given different policies during different times of, say, finance minister's financing strategy. So we see very difficult to forecast tax expense. But we do whenever we see we paid more in certain years, like in 2024, wherever we no longer pay in 2025. So that should better reflect what we think is the taxation for the year, for instance. Your financial position. I think these are, we have discussed in previous slides when it comes to our balance sheet.
This is our cash flows. Beginning balance IDR 940 billion. We have basically adopted more stringent cash management policies starting 2023, basically. Whenever we have excess cash, we used to pay down debt or maybe make some down payments for future CapEx, where we see more efficient to do it that way. That is why you see cash management is very stringent. Collection comes to almost IDR 15 trillion, CapEx plus OpEx is almost IDR 9 trillion. Interest expense is IDR 2.788 trillion, which is a mark below the run rate before, which is IDR 2.9 trillion. Cash surplus from operations IDR 4.1 trillion. Business acquisition is smallish, IDR 579 billion. Right issue money, IDR 5.5 trillion that I mentioned. Loan proceed, we paid down basically IDR 7.2 trillion.
We paid more than we received in right issue money. We paid dividend IDR 1.2 trillion, so ending the cash with IDR 650 billion by end of December 2025. Going to quarter-by-quarter analysis, 10% year-on-year or as well as quarter-over-quarter. Basically, connectivity is the brightest spot that we have discussed with people before. The non-power segment under connectivity is the brightest spot for the company. We see consolidation playing a big impact on our towers operations. I think what we have also experienced that if we look hard and work diligent enough, we are able to basically collect better what we should be able to collect from tower businesses. EBITDA, 6.7% year-on-year and 8.5% growth quarter-over-quarter.
Net income attributable to parent, 24% Q-on-Q increase and 26% year-on-year. Revenue analysis IDR 2.4 trillion, just by segment. Fiber to the tower, 10%, connectivity 4%, FTTH 21%. Total, we increased the business with 4.6%. Summary operational data. We have increased the number of towers, 847. Tenants increased by 2,500 because of the reseller becoming direct tenancy to our towers. Fiber to the tower, 6,700 increased kilometers, 3.1%. Connectivity increased volume by 53% year-on-year. FTTH increased 53% because of past contracts that we delivered during 2025. Going into slide 23, this is very much relevant. What we have been able to finance this, the sources that we finance out of the company is using mostly Rupiah during 2025, expiration profile is looking like this.
We are preparing for a new bond offering to replace our 2024 [PUB IV] facility. It is in the works right now. We have maturing USD loan in 2027. The maturing debt in USD have all been hedged with FX 15,000 respectively. While we are on this slide, I received a question whether we would get a Forex gain or Forex loss if Rupiah continues to depreciate. For instance, today it is past 17,000 to the dollar. I think our response to that is that, we do not have hedge accounting, which means there is not direct correlations between certain depreciation in Rupiah with our P&L or appreciation in Rupiah, into our P&L.
Only by the time we basically pay down the debt and we enjoy a positive mark to market by the time we pay, then we see a positive result in that moment, in that quarter, for instance, when we pay down the safe debt. Assuming, for instance, in 2027, Rupiah maintained at IDR 17,000 or IDR 18,000 for this matter. We should be able to achieve a positive mark to market when we pay down the debt in the USD, on this chart, the red one, $130 million notional amount. Hopefully the analyst or the investor who asked me this question is on this call, so he or she can basically get this response directly from us. Okay, Nico, I think that's all we have, Pak Hartono.
Yes. The 2025, despite of the challenge, the merger on the Indosat with Hutchison 3 Indonesia and also XL Axiata with Smartfren. We are still able to bring the good result.
Yeah.
Even from the revenue, EBITDA, net income. This we achieve through the several initiatives within our group. Mainly synergy and then like Pak Adam said, that we carefully looking at every line of the expenses.
Yes.
Which one that we can optimize or synergize. I think that's the additional comment from me.
Yeah. So it's a very meticulous exercise. There is not one particular area of the company that we can say is, when it comes to this exercise that Pak Hartono was saying that, okay, towers or non-towers. I think we really re-look at everything that we have in the company. Given the storm, the busyness of mergers are behind us. We use the opportunity to basically re-look at what we have in various contracts. This is the result we see for 2025, books that have been audited by Ernst & Young. Now I think both of us have concluded. Nico, now coming back to you.
Okay. Thank you, Pak Hartono, Pak Adam, for your insightful presentation.
Now we are open for the Q&A session. If you have a question, please raise your hand so we can unmute you. Or write down your question in the chat box below. Please state your name and institution as well. To start with, we have a question from Sabrina. Sabrina, please unmute yourself.
Okay. Hi, Nico. Thanks for the opportunity and hi, Pak Adam and Pak Hartono. Congrats on the good set of results. Only two questions from me. The first one is, we actually noticed a meaningful quarter-on-quarter increase in the revenue from XLSmart contracts. Could you share with us more colors on the nature of these deals and what is actually driving the growth? The second one is, as interest rates are likely to remain elevated for longer, how does the company plan to actually manage or balance its financing costs with ongoing organic expansion, despite we have seen some efforts of de-leveraging in full year 2025? I'll stop there. Thank you, Pak.
Okay. Like we said, we re-look at what we have. Several of the collections were actually taking place in 4Q and some additional run rate revenue also incurred during 2025, last quarter, fourth quarter. I think going into 2026, we expect, given we are now will be working very hard with XL and Smartfren to successfully create value for the merger. We see us working more on the non-towers, because they will need some restructuring on the non-tower side. Coming back to this question. We expect for towers, again, before seeing some more upside. We see towers to remain flat for now. Then we see additional incremental from the non-towers, which is fiber to the tower as required by XLSmart.
Then we expect to see some increase in penetration rates, as well as some additional composites business that we see during 2026. This also concludes our discussion about what we see for 2026. Overall, I think for towers, non-towers combined, we see the company to book basically low single-digit revenue growth and then EBITDA also, and then net profit before we see additional upside. Because when we were discussing this was back when we prepared what we see for 2026. That was sometime in January, December, that kind of times. We are hopeful that we can update the market on what we see for the remainder of the year when we release our newer quarterly results. Because we see a lot of noise right now at the moment when it comes to what we see as the outlook for 2026.
I think the requirement of merging parties is actually like we saw in IOH. They want to see efficient use of assets, efficient use of leases on whatever they want. But since XLSmart is focused also on 5G, we see the need for fiberization to be higher at this stage. Does that make sense, Sabrina?
Okay. Understand. What about on the interest rates?
Yeah. On the interest rates, I just had coffee with banks. They also have problems lending to various sectors in the country, given elevated oil prices recently, which did not come into our picture when we prepared our budget. We think the bond market may see some movement, but the banks are not facing easy times themselves to lend. We expect the banks to remain liquid, in other words. This answer may come to you differently had you asked me before the war, frankly speaking. Just talking to the banks, when they need to find good credit quality borrowers to lend to, they have problems because everything has gone up in price, inflation. That is why you see equity prices come down, because people expect inflation to be high.
Even though we have taken out a lot of the risks from our balance sheet, for instance, the fuel cost I mentioned in the first 10 minutes of our call. Again, the customers that have to bear those fuel costs, transportation costs, will face difficult times here themselves. Frankly speaking, we have not taken into account a very significant rate cut in our projection. Some cut, but not so much. We see we have some buffers there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
For instance, throughout 2023, we were 6.1%, and in 2024, average cost 6.2%. 2025 is 6%, like we just presented to you. In 2026, we are hopeful we do not have to go fix something longer dated, given liquidity is still abundant in the marketplace, in the banks marketplace, especially. Does that make sense, Sabrina? In other words, I do not have an answer right now because during the last board meeting, we were not discussing about borrowing more. We are pretty much well-funded at this stage. We only have to talk about new interest rates with banks when it comes to the need of, say, factually or potentially of new facility with banks. Does that make sense? The IR rate has remained stable, 4.75, Sabrina. Does that make sense to you?
Okay. Thanks, Pat, for the color-
In other words, this quarter, maybe we don't see the impact yet of increased rates so much because of the war. The war only started at the-
Okay, so it will be-
The war only started at the beginning of March.
Okay, so it will be pretty much at the same rate from 4Q, right?
Probably slightly higher. Probably slightly higher. Yeah. Which means-
Okay.
If it goes higher than what we saw in December 2025 or 6%, that means the management has to work harder to find the savings elsewhere. Right, Pak Hartono?
Yeah.
Okay. Thanks. I think maybe one last question.
Yeah.
Can you share how many kilometers of fiber connectivity services were actually added or deployed in 4Q?
In 4Q, didn't you see in our presentation slide?
I think it was in there, yeah.
Operational numbers.
Sabrina, for the connectivity, the metrics that we use is not the length of the cable.
Yeah.
But actually the connection.
Yeah. Activity.
The activation.
Activations.
That is the metric for connectivity, because different with FTTP, which is we bill the customer by kilometer per month.
Yeah.
But for connectivity, it is regardless how long the cable is, I think we charge them actually on the dedicated bandwidth that we provide to them. So the measurement is not using the kilometer for the connectivity. Yes.
Oh, okay. Thank you, Pak.
Yeah.
Yeah, because I was seeing the numbers on the slides for Q3, but it seems to be not there anymore for Q4. So that is why.
Oh, you mean the fiber run? You mean the physical cable of fiber?
Yeah.
It is in slide seven. Everything is lumped together. You just have to basically take out the FTTP and then everything is in there. We just decided not to be too detailed about that one for the fiber assets.
Okay, I will come back to the slide.
Seven.
Thank you, Pak.
Yeah.
Okay. Thank you, Sabrina, for the question. Pak Adam and Hartono, I would like to ask the next question. Pak, I think we all recognize that the 2025 result EBIT was partly driven by the tax. Can you please quantify normalized full year 2025 earnings if we take out the tax expense volatility, and what would be the effective tax rate that we should assume for 2026?
I think that is difficult, yeah, because when we see, say, for instance, in 2024, if you look at slide number, there is a P&L there. Slide number 16. In 2024, there was a higher tax payment because of different opinions between our management and then tax office in 2024. So there was a slightly higher tax payment back then, and then wherever we paid, and then we just decided to expense it in that particular year. So 2025, the numbers did increase. But to say whether this is a run rate, it is very difficult for us. It is a new tax system, for instance, Coretax, right? So there could be different interpretations still about where the tax office sees the tax expense should be. It is an ongoing process, Nicolas, this now.
I think I am hearing right now it is, I think, quite normalized tax rate, but no guarantee about that because there is always a possibility of different tax opinion between us and tax office.
Okay, Pak. Thank you. Noted. For the next question, Aurel, please go ahead and unmute yourself. Sorry.
Yes. Thank you, Nicolas. Hi, Pak Adam. I have three questions, Pak. My first question is regarding your reseller revenue conversion to direct revenue, Pak. Can you please explain more about this conversion, and was this related to the XLSmart revenue growth in
Mostly, yes. IBST was a reseller, but the tower is belonging to somebody else.
Okay. The conversion, is it going to be one-off in the Q4 or are we seeing further conversion, Pak?
No, not anymore. Not so much. Next year, 2026, I think, we expect to see some increase in tenancy ratios because of Indosat and then Telkomsel also start to basically expand. Their plus, especially with IOH, they no longer have relocation rights. So whenever they need new sites, it is going to be new colo in 2026.
Yeah.
Okay, so
Basic increase. Not like a jump, but a slight increase. Under obvious case, there is still a bit of an increase in tenancy ratios.
Okay, so the conversion is actually related to the IBST contract previously, Pak?
In Q4, yes.
Okay.
Do not forget, when we say revenue will be a bit flat in 2026, it is excluding potential consolidation of subsidiaries or acquisition of additional shares of our subsidiaries. Because some of the transaction is related to corporate actions that have not been disclosed yet.
Okay. Pak, can you please share the CapEx guidance for 2026, Pak?
Yeah. CapEx should be around IDR 5 trillion.
Okay. Can you share the allocation for-
Should be still similar with what you saw in full year 2025 when it comes to split. We expect to build new towers also for XLSmart, but not as in the tune of IOH relocations.
Towers, yeah. XLSmart, I think the required relocations is about 8,000 locations, but a lot of that will be on existing towers.
Okay. How many are supposed to be in the BTS form, Pak?
About 1,000.
Oh, only 1,000.
Yeah.
Okay. The IDR 5 trillion CapEx already covering for that 1,000-
Yes
BTS development.
Yes.
Okay. My last question is on the potential upside from the FWA deployment, Pak.
Yeah.
Can you share the color on that and the timing? Thank you.
At the start of fasting, it was below 100, but now we see that number comes to about 400, coming from FWA collocations.
Oh. That's already being realized, or that's for-
That's in the works to be realized. You should be able to see some in our first quarter results.
I see. Is that for the full year or only for the first Q, Pak?
Only for the first Q.
Okay. Can you share what's the potential in the full year, Pak?
Nothing that we have received as final number in our management meetings here. They come in the batch of hundreds. Maybe if we talk again in one month, I will be able to share more numbers with you.
Okay. My last question is following up to that. The low single-digit growth-
Is that already including the FWA-
Yes
upside?
Yes.
Oh.
That is why you see the unexpected increase in financial ratios for 2026-
Okay. Thank you, Pak.
Yeah.
Okay. Thank you, Aurel, for the question. Next, I will read out the question in the text box from Judy. Was there an increase in average tower rental rate in 4Q 2025? What was the reason behind this? Thank you.
Oh, yeah, that's a function of what Pak Hartono was saying, that we look at what we have in ability to charge our customers, like occupancy of tower space that we have originally stipulated in the original contract, and then they end up occupying with more equipment. So that's why you saw averages going up. But what we see is that base rent, I think we're pretty much quite stable. I don't have the number with me right now, but should be around IDR 12 million something in average lease rate for tower leases, including collocations.
Okay. Thank you, Judy, for the question. Thank you, Pak, for the color. Next, I will take the question in the chat box from Selfie. WIFI and MyRepublic are expanding to fixed wireless access. Will TOWR become the tower partner for their FWA services? If yes
Yes.
Yeah. Okay.
I think we already answered that in the immediately previous question from Sabrina, I think.
Yeah.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah. Could you please give color on the revenue expectation and EBITDA margin? Thank you.
We mentioned about what we see in 2026. We have devised a budget for 2026 under which management will be operating. I think, still low single digit kind of revenue growth. Similarly with EBITDA. Again, the major driver for growth is connectivity, as Pak Hartono has mentioned. Because we see opportunities to basically cover more market under connectivity, under our own discretion. We are hearing off and on mobile wireless operators being hesitant about spending CapEx. That is why we think 2026 will still be the better spot is from connectivity, Pak.
Yes. Still connectivity is, we feel that there is still a room for-
Yeah
quite an improvement.
Utilizing the kilometer fiber print layout that we have across Indonesia. We also see that the needs for the internet is increasing from year to year. We see that connectivity especially will book quite a-
Yeah
a growth.
Yeah. The growth from that connectivity, very strong growth from connectivity will lift the overall TOWR performance for 2026.
Okay. Thank you, Pak. Next, we will take a question from Etta, and then we will take one last question as we approach the end of the call today. From Etta, Pak, what is the pricing trend for tower and fiber? What is the sustainable level in the industry? What is the typical tower required in 5G?
Hartono or-
Yeah. Answer for the fiber. For the pricing for the fiber is related to the FTTP. I think it is already bottom. I think we do not see any further decrease on that. For the connectivity, yes, we see that it is very natural the price will go down every year. However, what we do is we try to maintain the price. Instead of lowering the price, we give them more bandwidth so the revenue still remains the same.
Yeah.
That is our strategy for the fiber link.
Yeah. Yeah. I think for towers, for instance, the new possibility of bigger volume with FWA. Again, what I mentioned during the first five minutes is that what we have been trying to do is that, same with fiber, with towers also, rather than these guys, whoever wants to expand the network or improve the network, rather than them go out of pocket to build new infrastructure using other people or their own capital. I think we have the flexibility of very efficient CapEx and OpEx outlay on a per unit basis. I mentioned this several times, I am going to mention again. For instance, the number of people operating under towers, even though we were 15,000 towers or 20,000 towers, the headcount on the tower is still 900 people, more or less. So that provide a very high tower count per headcount that we have under towers.
For fiber, I think the same thing. If we reach certain scale, we have reached a certain scale with fiber optics. Very good margins that we think we should be able to outperform the competition. Not to mention, we have also very good access to capital, as you can see in our performance. What we want to avoid is going out there and then try to propose a new business proposal, and then the pricing is off, meaning it is just too expensive. Or what we want to be able to provide is earn the business by providing something very efficient. So if they do their own calculations, it is just better off to just lease. T hat goes for colocation as well. Based on that, and we have been saying this for many, many quarters already, pricing has been quite stable. So I think about IDR 12 million, for instance, for towers.
That's what we think should be the main focus of management going forward.
Okay. Thank you. For our last question today from Andre Siantoro. Hi, Pak. Previously, you touched about acquisition opportunity. Can you give more details on that? Thank you.
Yeah. Nothing I can share, actually. You see some assets still left to be consolidated. We will look at those opportunities very carefully. At this stage, frankly speaking, we are looking at something very strategic, where we can enhance value to the whole franchise. We own several subsidiaries. I think one transaction is pending to conclude in 2Q, but not much that we can say at this stage. When we say revenue growth is flattish, it's not including transactions like that.
Awesome. Before we end the call today, do you have any closing remarks, Pak Adam or Pak Hartono?
Yeah. Hopefully, all of you will be able to see more of us, Pak Hartono and myself, talking about the business. It is just a matter of five weeks, and the whole world is different because of the war. Right now, fortunately, we do not have a funding need that really necessitates us to basically discuss a new term sheet. Fortunately, Bank Indonesia did not increase BI rates, so that reflects the banking system liquidity. We also price a lot of our loans based on that policy rate, BI rate, with banks, the biggest banks in Indonesia also included. State banks, commercial banks. Still, we have very much liquidity offering coming our way from financial markets, including banks.
I think we are in a good position if we are to launch a bond, for instance, because we do not have a financing need that necessitate us to borrow at a much higher borrowing cost at this stage. Okay. I think this answers to Sabrina's question. I think for us, we are optimistically looking at where our customers are heading. Hopefully, this war does not cause any more concern than what we already see in our other type of business in our daily lives. Pak Hartono?
Yeah, that is it, Pak.
Thank you, Nico and everybody.
Great. We come to the end part of the session. On behalf of Bahana Sekuritas, I would like to thank you, Pak Hartono, Pak Adam, for the informative and interesting talk that we have today, and congratulations as well on your impressive results. I would like to thank you, the audience, for your participation. We hope this presentation is beneficial for everyone. Thank you, and see you in our next event. Thank you.
Thank you, everyone.
Yeah, thank you, Nico. Thank you. Bye.
Bye.
Bye. Thank you.
Bye.