China’s Tencent Cloud launches first data centre in Indonesia

Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, collectively known as the BAT trio, are China's three biggest tech companies. - China Daily/File

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Chinese cloud service provider Tencent Cloud launched an internet data centre (IDC) in Jakarta on Monday (April 12), the company’s first in Indonesia, seeking to capture a slice of the country’s rapidly growing cloud computing market.

The IDC will allow Tencent Cloud, a subsidiary of Tencent Holdings Ltd, one of China’s biggest technology firms, to be closer to Indonesian users, enabling faster data transfers and accelerating various industries’ digital transformations.