Google Cloud Views Indonesia as a Comprehensive Market for the Digital Ecosystem
Las Vegas (ANTARA) - Google Cloud’s President for Asia Pacific, Karan Bajwa, views Indonesia as a country with a highly complete and comprehensive market owing to its success in combining the strengths of traditional sector companies with an innovative digital ecosystem.
“That country (Indonesia) also packages a very dynamic digital ecosystem, developer ecosystem, digital data. So, this is a very complete and comprehensive market,” said Bajwa on the sidelines of the Google Cloud Next ’26 event in Las Vegas, United States, on Thursday (23/4) local time.
Bajwa stated that Indonesia’s appeal lies in its customer diversity and country size. Mature sectors such as banking, retail, and telecommunications in Indonesia are seen as demonstrating high technological readiness.
As an example, he highlighted Indosat’s steps to accelerate AI intelligence transformation and its aspiration to evolve from a telecommunications company into an AI TechCo.
“We are very proud of what we are doing together with Indonesia, in Indonesia with customers. We had the privilege of being the first provider to launch a data centre in Indonesia. And I think that gives us tremendous opportunity to really work with customers,” he said.
Referring to Indonesia as a complete and intact digital market, Bajwa added that Google Cloud wants to truly represent the completeness of its platform’s capabilities, which encompass almost all industries that can be transformed through technology use in Indonesia.
Furthermore, Bajwa views Southeast Asia as a microcosm of the broader Asia-Pacific market. He considers the region unique because it encompasses market diversity, from highly mature to digital-native based ones.
For Google Cloud, Indonesia becomes a representation of a complete market with a blend of established traditional companies and a highly dynamic digital ecosystem. This differs from Thailand, which is very strong in traditional corporate sectors, or Singapore, which stands out through its developer ecosystem and mature banking.
The unique characteristics in each country, including dynamic developer markets in Vietnam and Malaysia, serve as a learning medium for Google Cloud in applying its technology to other areas in the Asia-Pacific.
“So our gains in Southeast Asia have been a great opportunity for us to learn from there and apply it to the broader Asia-Pacific market in that sense,” said Bajwa.