By Muhammad Zulhusni
Publication Date: 2025-11-26 09:36:00
Indonesia’s push into AI-led growth is gaining momentum as more local organisations look for ways to build their own applications, update their systems, and strengthen data oversight. The country now has broader access to cloud and AI tools after Microsoft expanded the services available in the Indonesia Central cloud region, which first went live six months ago. The expansion gives businesses, public bodies, and developers more options to run AI workloads inside the country instead of overseas data centres.
The update was shared at the Cloud & AI Innovation Summit in Jakarta, where business and government leaders met to discuss how Indonesia can advance its AI ambitions. Speakers included Mike Chan, who leads Azure AI Apps & Agents in Asia, and Dharma Simorangkir, President Director of Microsoft Indonesia. Their message was that local capacity is only useful if organisations put it to work.
During the event, Dharma said the new services “open the door for every organisation to…
