Indonesia's BAKTI Agency Gets Acting Head as Fadhilah Mathar Steps Down
Communications and Digital Ministry infrastructure chief Wayan Toni Supriyanto takes over as acting director of the connectivity agency, which pledges to keep focusing on remote-area coverage.
Fadhilah Mathar has resigned as director of BAKTI Komdigi, the agency managing Indonesia's rural connectivity programs, effective October 28. The Communications and Digital Minister appointed Wayan Toni Supriyanto, the ministry's Director General of Digital Infrastructure, as acting director of the agency on October 29.
Wayan Toni said BAKTI "remains focused on carrying out its mandate of equitable digital connectivity" for the country's frontier, outermost and disadvantaged regions. The agency runs the village internet program and major connectivity mega-projects across the archipelago. Leadership transitions at procurement-heavy agencies typically open program evaluations, which in past cycles have adjusted rollout timelines for village connectivity infrastructure and shifted the vendor engagement patterns of the affected programs. BAKTI has not announced any immediate changes to its program portfolio, and the ministry says the acting leadership will review ongoing village connectivity projects in the coming weeks.