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Indonesia launches national AI Centre of Excellence with Indosat, NVIDIA and Cisco

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Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi) launched a national AI Centre of Excellence in Jakarta on 11 July 2025 with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, NVIDIA and Cisco. Its six pillars include a secure sandbox, training, a startup accelerator and a platform for national language models, and Indosat’s Lintasarta is to supply NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 compute. Cisco set a target of training another 500,000 Indonesians by 2030.

Why it matters

Indonesian startups, researchers and agencies get government-backed access to local GPU compute and training, which Komdigi presents as the base for sovereign AI.

When
11 Jul 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0155
Who
Komdigi, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, NVIDIA, Cisco; Meutya Hafid, Nezar Patria

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Cisco Newsroom and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2025-0155: “Indonesia launches national AI Centre of Excellence with Indosat, NVIDIA and Cisco.” wheresthe.ai, 11 Jul 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/id-national-ai-centre-of-excellence-2025-07/ (source: Cisco Newsroom: Indonesia’s golden vision for AI transformation).

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