Singapore – Telecommunications provider Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has announced that it has recently expanded its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud, bringing together cutting-edge sovereign cloud and edge cloud services in Indonesia. This initiative is aimed at addressing the country’s most stringent data residency, security, and privacy requirements.
Under the agreement, the company will introduce Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to organisations across Indonesia to address the unique demands of organisations wanting to run AI and data-intensive workloads at their location of choice.
By doing this, Indosat intends to empower Indonesian public sector entities and critical industries, including defence, healthcare, finance, energy, and manufacturing, to speed up their digital transformation efforts with leading AI and analytics capabilities, ensuring they retain complete control and protection of their sensitive data.
The company also plans to deliver on-premises hosting for GDC through its data centre operations. This ensures that data is kept within Indonesia’s borders and under the control of customers, while also complying with all relevant legal and sovereignty standards, including the Personal Data Protection Law and Government Regulation No. 71.
Additionally, GDC will further allow organisations to access the core features of Vertex AI to quickly develop and deploy advanced machine learning (ML) and generative AI search applications for easily retrieving and analysing data at their chosen location. Pre-trained ML models for speech-to-text, translation, and optical character recognition (OCR) will likewise be accessible out-of-the-box.
Vikram Sinha, president, director, and chief executive officer at Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Group, commented, “Indonesia is paving the way towards its golden era in 2045. Indosat Group is committed to contributing through technological advancements in pursuit of this vision. The partnership with Google Cloud is driven by empowering Indonesia, aiming to deliver the country’s first sovereign cloud and edge cloud solutions.”
“These solutions will equip organisations with the state-of-the-art infrastructure, operational features, and developer tools they need to accelerate digitalisation at scale,” Sinha added.
Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer at Google Cloud, also remarked, “Indonesia’s public sector and regulated industries require solutions that meet strict data sovereignty and regulatory requirements. Our partnership with Indosat Group will introduce next-generation, local sovereign cloud and edge cloud solutions to empower public sector and regulated organisations to accelerate digital transformation on their own terms.”
“Our leading AI services and secure-by-design distributed cloud infrastructure, combined with Indosat’s technology expertise, will help businesses better analyse data, uncover insights, boost productivity, and run modern AI applications,” concluded Kurian.
