Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Group, Google Cloud partner to deliver cloud and edge cloud solutions for Indonesia

• Solutions will enable organisations to accelerate digitalisation 
• Aims to support AI and data-intensive workloads at preferred locations

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Group and Google Cloud have announced an expanded partnership to deliver next-generation sovereign cloud and edge cloud services in Indonesia that meet the country’s stringent data residency, security, and privacy requirements.

Under the partnership, Indosat Group plans to offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to organisations in Indonesia to meet the demands of those that want to run AI and data-intensive workloads at their location of choice. This will empower organisations in the public sector and other critical industries, such as defense, healthcare and life sciences, financial services, energy and utilities, and manufacturing, to accelerate digital transformation with AI and analytics capabilities, while ensuring they have complete control and protection of their sensitive data.

GDC is a fully managed solution with a rich set of software services, a range of extensible hardware form factors, and the choice of running air-gapped (i.e., fully disconnected) from the public internet for the most sensitive workloads, or connected between edge locations and the Google Cloud region located within Indonesia.

Indosat Group, through its data center arms, plans to offer hosting options for GDC on-premises. This ensures that data remains under the customer's control and within Indonesia's borders, adhering to all legal and sovereignty frameworks, including the Personal Data Protection Law and Government Regulation No. 71.

Vikram Sinha, President Director and CEO of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Group, said, “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.”

He added that these solutions will equip organisations with the state-of-the-art infrastructure, operational features, and developer tools they need to accelerate digitalisation at scale.

Through GDC, organisations can access core features (e.g., Workbench, Pipelines, Predictions) of Vertex AI—Google Cloud’s enterprise AI platform—enabling them to quickly develop and deploy advanced machine learning 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)—with support for more than 100 languages, including Bahasa Indonesia—are likewise accessible out-of-the-box.

Organisations can also access the broader range of Google Cloud hardware and software resources that are crucial for seamlessly deploying AI applications in an air-gapped environment or at the edge. These include Google Kubernetes Engine, NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, the portable AlloyDB Omni database engine, and Dataproc for running open-source data analytics.

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said, "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.”

He added that the firm’s 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.