Having a region in Jakarta will help recent and existing customers in Indonesia leverage Google Cloud technologies to supply higher experiences for local users. “Google Cloud is already helping us realize our digital banking strategy, which accelerates financial inclusion and provides Indonesians with better banking services,” said Indra Utoyo, the corporate’s chief digital, IT and operations officer Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. “We currently use Apigee, Google Maps Platform APIs and Cloud Vision for development purposes. Using a hybrid approach of both cloud and on-premises, both Google and BRI make data security our top priority. The launch of the Jakarta region strengthens Google’s commitment and helps us reach customers even better.”
A telecommunications leader that goals to maneuver 70% of workloads to the cloud in the subsequent three years PT XL Axiata Tbk has deployed the Anthos platform to automate, manage, and scale workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments in a secure and consistent manner. “XL Axiata is committed to modernizing our infrastructure to achieve greater business agility and increase the speed of application deployment. Anthos was a natural choice because it allows us to adopt containers and Google, a leader in Kubernetes, manages our container infrastructure for us,” said Yessie D Yosetya, Chief Information and Digital Officer at XL Axiata.
Indonesia is home to many digital unicorns Tokopedia who’re revolutionizing their industries by changing the best way digital services are delivered. “Google Cloud has enabled us to connect with over 7 million merchants and over 90 million monthly active users in over 97% of districts in this vast country. This collaboration gives us an exciting opportunity to help Indonesians achieve more and further democratize trade through technology in Indonesia.” said Tahir Hashmi, vice chairman of engineering at Tokopedia.
“In a rapidly changing banking landscape, we see more and more banks and financial institutions looking to cloud-native solutions,” said Myles Bertrand, managing director of Mambu APAC in Smell. “There is greater awareness that when they operate in the cloud, they can be more responsive, agile, innovative and operate at lower costs. We believe our partnership with Google Cloud Platform will have an extremely positive impact on the digital banking space across the Asia-Pacific region.”
The Jakarta Region is launching a typical set of services including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable and BigQuery. Developers, data analysts, and data engineers may also leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to take their projects from idea to implementation quickly and cost-effectively. Hybrid cloud customers can integrate recent and existing deployments with our ecosystem of regional partners and across multiple solutions Dedicated interconnect locations.
Forward together
Maju Sama-Sama is the motto of Google Indonesia and means “progress together”. As all of us face unprecedented challenges today, Google Cloud is working with Indonesians to construct a resilient future. In addition to the launch of our recent cloud region, we’re making additional commitments today to assist develop the talent that’s critical to our customers’ digital transformation.
To help construct a cloud-ready workforce, Google will roll out 150,000 hands-on training labs in Indonesia this 12 months. These include free access to GCP training sessions, credits and a variety of profession readiness initiatives akin to GCP Masterour Cloud OnBoard trainingand the Indonesian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Digital Scholarships that help people obtain GCP certification.
Since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, Google has rolled out G Suite for Education to hundreds of faculties across Jakarta to support distant learning solutions. To help everyone benefit from the brand new ‘classroom’, we have now launched a central Google Teach from Home hub in town Tongue Indonesia, which provides information, training and tools to assist teachers teach from home. Today we also announced our commitment to work with the federal government of Indonesia to supply tens of millions of teachers and students with access to G Suite for Education across the country.
