Apa kabar, Indonesia?
Indonesia is driving a wave of innovation, with among the area’s most
thrilling startups bringing alternatives for progress and financial
empowerment to each phase of the nation’s numerous inhabitants. And
right now, Indonesia’s cloud journey simply obtained extra fascinating. I’m excited
to share that the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Area is now open!
The brand new AWS Area permits prospects to run workloads and securely retailer
knowledge in Indonesia whereas serving decrease latency to the 277 million
residents throughout the nation’s 17,000 islands. Our deliberate funding of
$5 billion over the subsequent 15 years is predicted to create no less than 24,700
jobs and contribute round $10.9 billion to Indonesia’s Gross Home
Product (GDP). These figures are purpose to rejoice, and so they’re an
encouraging leap ahead for Southeast Asia’s largest financial system.
As we speak’s announcement builds on the long-term dedication we made to
Indonesia after we opened our first workplace in Jakarta again in 2018. AWS
Indonesia has a quickly rising buyer base, and the Jakarta Area
brings our portfolio of providers nearer to our prospects throughout the
archipelago. Along with the advantages of getting an AWS Area in
Jakarta, prospects can depend on our world infrastructure footprint for
safety, availability, and efficiency. The Jakarta Area will be a part of
our 9 AWS Areas and 29 Availability Zones already established
throughout Asia-Pacific nations in Australia, Better China, India, Japan,
Korea, and Singapore, with extra to return. The brand new Area can even convey
extra infrastructure in order that extra folks can leverage superior
cloud applied sciences that may assist drive innovation in one of the crucial
vibrant areas on the earth.
“With the supply of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Area, our
native startups and small medium companies can make the most of the cloud to
foster innovation and increase financial progress,” mentioned Sandiaga Salahuddin
Uno, Minister of Tourism and Inventive Financial system for Indonesia. “The
funding from AWS, because the world’s most widely-adopted cloud supplier,
will energize native companies, help nationwide financial restoration,
open job alternatives throughout numerous sectors, and propel Indonesia
to turn out to be a worldwide digital financial system.”
Like different nations, numerous communities in Indonesia have been
considerably impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic during the last two years.
AWS noticed the necessity and has been working to assist communities throughout the
nation. We lately labored with Halodoc, a neighborhood well being tech startup,
to open a brief COVID-19 vaccination middle to succeed in 7,500 Karawang
residents and the encircling neighborhood. We additionally collaborated with
SiCepat, one among our logistics prospects, to distribute 2,380 grocery
kits with important meals objects to low-income households within the better
Jakarta space and West Java. Within the early months of the pandemic, AWS
labored with Habitat for Humanity to distribute grocery kits, masks, and
hygiene kits to greater than 15,000 households in Bekasi and Karawang, West
Java.
Indonesian prospects throughout just about each business and of each measurement
(together with startups, enterprises, and public sector organizations) are
working each conceivable use case on AWS. They be a part of hundreds of thousands of energetic
prospects utilizing AWS each month in over 190 nations all over the world
to speed up innovation, improve agility, and drive value financial savings.
Organizations in Indonesia which have moved their mission-critical
workloads to the cloud embody among the nation’s most fun
manufacturers and most crucial establishments. Anter Aja, The ASEAN Basis,
Financial institution Commonwealth Indonesia, Dinas Komunikasi dan Informatika Jawa
Barat, Happyfresh, Kompas, Lion Air, MNC Group, Ruparupa.com, Sayurbox,
SiCepat, The Physique Store, Tokopedia, Traveloka, and XL Axiata are only a
few of the organizations primarily based regionally whose IT operations will profit
from the brand new AWS Jakarta Area.
Tokopedia, a expertise firm and a number one on-line market with
over 100 million month-to-month energetic customers and 11 million service provider companions,
entrusts its mission-critical workloads to AWS. “Indonesia is seeing a
surge in digital adoption and accelerated progress in e-commerce. Cloud
providers, equivalent to these offered by AWS, cut back the heavy lifting we
must do to handle infrastructure, and so they permit us to concentrate on our
prospects’ wants. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Area makes it
potential for us to proceed to concentrate on constructing and strengthening our
enterprise capabilities whereas using the most effective expertise when it comes to
core computing and expertise infrastructure to serve the wants of our
enterprise and prospects,” mentioned Herman Widjaja, Chief Know-how Officer,
Tokopedia.
For nearly 4 many years, Sequis Life has been trusted by the Indonesian
market to supply monetary safety and investments. “To be able to
constantly present a greater buyer expertise, Sequis Life is utilizing
cloud applied sciences to endure a complete digital transformation. This manner,
we will implement a contemporary expertise stack as the inspiration for the
excessive agile growth we’re enterprise to digitize our insurance coverage
expertise, together with the creation of a cell utility that runs on
AWS,” mentioned Marlin Sugama, Chief Digital Officer of Innovation Lab,
Sequis Life. “AWS expertise permits us to reinforce our providers and
enhance buyer satisfaction with total pace and ease-of-use. The
new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Area will get us even nearer to our
prospects and assist us ship modern insurance coverage providers that meet
their wants.”
Indonesia’s main optics retailer and producer, Optik Melawai,
drives its retail operations with analytics. “Knowledge is a strong software
that we wish to introduce to Optik Melawai’s retail enterprise. With the
knowledge lake as the only supply of reality, we can be integrating
analytics into our enterprise DNA to make our operations smarter and extra
exact,” mentioned Eddyanto Hadisurjo, Managing Director at Optik Melawai.
“AWS analytics instruments assist us present data-driven insights into buyer
segmentation, product advice, and inventory forecasting. By the
new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Area, we look ahead to deepening our
collaboration with AWS.”
As a digital resolution supplier group, AWS Superior Consulting Companion
Metrodata helps their prospects unlock the complete potential of the cloud.
“We’ve got been working carefully with AWS since 2013 to assist our prospects
cut back prices, release sources to innovate, and additional differentiate
their choices out there,” mentioned Sjafril Effendi, Director of PT
Metrodata Electronics, Tbk. “With Indonesia being one of many quickest
rising public cloud markets in
Asia,
there are immense alternatives to digitally remodel native companies
and authorities organizations to assist them profit from the pace, value,
and reliability of AWS. The brand new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Area will
allow us to broaden our migration and knowledge analytics practices, prepare
and certify an extra 150 Metrodata technical and gross sales workers on AWS
options, and higher serve our 700+ prospects.”
We’re additionally serving to Indonesia construct a extremely expert workforce to fill
the in-demand jobs of the longer term. We made a dedication to empower
a whole bunch of 1000’s of Indonesians from all backgrounds with cloud
proficiency by 2025, in help of the “Freedom of Studying” (Merdeka
Belajar) nationwide initiative.
Since 2017, AWS has skilled over 200,000 people in Indonesia
with cloud expertise in collaboration with the Indonesian authorities and
different companies, and we look ahead to coaching many extra.
Indonesia has daring plans to develop, and its imaginative and prescient for the longer term is
rightfully bold. To set a roadmap for fulfillment, the nation has
adopted the “Indonesia 2045” imaginative and prescient, pledging to turn out to be one of many
world’s high 5 economies by the point it celebrates 100 years of
independence in 2045. This could be an enormous increase not just for the folks
of Indonesia, however for the Asia Pacific area. Economists have
maintained a optimistic
outlook for
Indonesia’s financial system regardless of the affect of the pandemic. I’m thrilled
that Indonesia welcomed AWS and has allowed us to develop alongside our
prospects, and I can’t wait to see what this thriving financial system builds
utilizing the cloud.
