Indosat, NVIDIA and UGM launch Indonesia's first university-based AI research center in Yogyakarta

By QikAI · August 17, 2026

Indonesia just made a $2 billion bet that telcos — not tech giants — will own national AI infrastructure.

Indosat launched the country's first university-based AI research center on August 13, partnering with NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada. The center targets tuberculosis screening, agriculture, and disaster response.

Slide 3 breaks down the Zankore platform — 1GW of compute designed for sovereign workloads.
Slide 6 shows why the $2B chip financing matters more than the research center itself.
Slide 8 reveals what regulated industries can learn from telco-anchored AI strategies.

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