Legal and Compliance Risks

268 PT Telkom Indonesia Persero Tbk telecommunications sector and compete with us in providing telecommunications services. Furthermore, it is impossible to anticipate the regulatory policies that will be applied to new technologies. We derive substantial revenue from interconnection services because we have the largest network in Indonesia and our competitors must pay tarifs to connect to our network. As regulated by the MoCI, although SMS interconnection rates as a result of ITRB No.60BRTIIII2014 and No.125BRTIIV2014 increased from Rp23 to Rp24, efective April 2014, through December 31, 2016, SMS interconnection rates have been decreasing prior to that in recent years and may decrease again in the future. The termination of Telkomsel’s premium SMS services from October 2011 as a result of MoCI Regulation No.1PERM.KOMINFO012009 resulted in a substantial reduction in our revenues from these services. These services were resumed by Telkomsel from August 6, 2013 as allowed under MoCI Regulation No.21 year of 2013 dated July 26, 2013, regarding the Operation of Content Provider Services on Mobile Cellular Network and Local Fixed Wireless Network with Limited Mobility, as last amended by MoCI Regulation No.6 of 2015, which replaced MoCI Regulation No.1PERM. KOMINFO012009. However, pursuant to the new decree, premium SMS service providers are required to meet stricter requirements that are more diicult to comply with. Accordingly we do not expect revenues from premium SMS services to return to levels seen prior to October 2011. In the future, the Government may announce or implement other regulatory changes which may adversely afect our business or our existing licenses. We cannot assure you that we will be able to compete successfully with other domestic and foreign telecommunications operators, that regulatory changes will not disproportionately reduce our competitors’ costs or disproportionately reduce our revenues, or that regulatory changes, amendments or interpretations of current or future laws and regulations promulgated by the Government will not have a material adverse efect on our business and operating results. The entry of additional Indonesian telecommunications operators as providers of international direct dialing services could adversely afect our international telecommunications services operating margins, market share and results of operations We obtained a license and entered the international long-distance service market in 2004 and acquired a signiicant market share for IDD services by the end of 2006. Indosat, one of our primary competitors, entered this market prior to us and continues to maintain a substantial market share for IDD services. Bakrie Telecom was awarded an IDD license in 2009 to provide international long distance service using the “009” access code. There is a possibility that other operators will be granted IDD licenses in the future. The operations of incumbents and the entrance of new operators into the international long-distance market, including the VoIP services provided by such operators as well as smartphone-based VoIP applications, continue to pose a signiicant competitive threat to us. We cannot assure you that such adverse efects will not continue or that such increased competition will not continue to erode our market share or adversely afect our ixed telecommunications services operating margins and results of operations. We face risks related to the opening of new long distance access codes In an attempt to liberalize DLD services, the Government issued regulations assigning each provider of DLD services a three-digit access code to be dialed by customers making DLD calls. In 2005, the MoCI announced that a three-digit access code for DLD calls will be implemented gradually within ive years and that it would assign us the “017” DLD access code for ive major cities, including Jakarta, and allow us to progressively extend it to all other area codes. Indosat was assigned “011” as its DLD access code. We were required to open DLD access codes in all remaining areas on September 27, 2011, by which date our network was ready to be opened up to the three-digit DLD access code in all coded areas throughout Indonesia.