Oracle is in talks with the Indonesian government to establish a cloud services center in the country’s Batam Island, Bloomberg News reported in March, citing people familiar with the matter, according to Reuters. Oracle did not immediately respond to W. Media’s request for comments.
Nongsa Digital Park in Batam is favoured as a location considering its “free trade zone” status and its proximity to Singapore and Malaysia, where Oracle already has plans for similar cloud services, the report said.
In October, Oracle had said it planned to invest more than US$ 6.5 billion to set up its first public cloud region in Malaysia. The company also wants to continue its expansion across Asia, with more data centres and infrastructure projects planned “from Japan all the way down to New Zealand… all the way to India”, Garrett Ilg, Oracle’s executive vice president for Japan and Asia Pacific, had told Reuters in a statement earlier.