Oracle has quietly established a cloud presence in Indonesia, with its Indonesia North (Batam) cloud region now listed as live on the company’s website.

According to Bloomberg, the software giant is leasing data centre facilities from DayOne Data Centers Singapore, the recently separated international arm of Chinese operator GDS Holdings.

The cloud infrastructure is located at Nongsa Digital Park on Batam Island, directly across the Singapore Strait from Singapore.

The area was designated a special economic zone in July 2020, offering tax incentives to attract data centre and digital economy investments.

Nongsa Digital Park is developed by Indonesia’s Citramas Group.

Hong Kong-based private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners also launched a data centre facility there in February this year.

Reports of Oracle’s possible entry into Indonesia first emerged in March, though DayOne’s involvement was not known at the time.

Oracle’s move into Batam follows its landmark US$30 billion deal to provide cloud services to OpenAI.

The company continues to expand its global cloud infrastructure footprint.

Indonesia is a rapidly growing data centre market, with hyperscalers such as Microsoft and Google already operating local cloud regions.

Digital Realty, a major global colocation provider, recently formed a joint venture with Bersama Digital Infrastructure Asia to support further expansion in the country.

Most of Indonesia’s data centres are currently concentrated in Jakarta, located on the island of Java.

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