Indonesia

China launches AI that writes politically correct docs for bureaucrats

Asia In Brief PLUS: Politician thought Korea's martial law declaration was a deepfake; Apple finds a billion for Indonesia; China worries about open source intel; and more

AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 9

Indonesia tells Apple $100 million investment isn't enough to lift iPhone 16 sale ban

Wants Cook to look under the couch again and find at least another $15 million

Public Sector26 Nov 2024 | 11

A new city springs from the rainforest to become Indonesia's tech hub

Jakarta who? Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara, is packed with tech

On-Prem06 Nov 2024 | 17

Indonesia bans iPhone 16 over Apple’s undelivered investment promises

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Singapore building two Supercomputers; Toyota to rebuild IT with Fujitsu AI; Are Samsung engineers jumping ship?

Public Sector27 Oct 2024 | 5

China's tech giants buy into Indonesia – just like US tech giants did in India

GoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake

SaaS18 Sep 2024 |

Plunging printer sales see Japan's Ricoh plan 2,000 redundancies

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Superapps in trouble across Asia; Indonesia connectivity doubles; Alibaba turns 25; and more!

On-Prem16 Sep 2024 | 1

Huawei debuts triple-folding Mate XT smartphone

Asia In Brief Plus: 550MW more DCs for India; Australia poised to use decryption powers; Indonesia creates cyber warfare unit

Personal Tech09 Sep 2024 | 9

Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says it's not enough

Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore

Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 3

Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key

Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway

Malware Month04 Jul 2024 | 35

Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option

President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory

Malware Month01 Jul 2024 | 23

Indonesian government datacenter locked down in $8M ransomware rumble

Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack

Systems24 Jun 2024 |

Indonesia's president orders government to stop developing new applications

Nation of 17,000 islands operates 27,000 bits of software

Public Sector28 May 2024 | 14

Indonesia sneakily buys spyware, claims Amnesty International

A 'murky' web sees many purchases run through Singapore in a way that hides potential users

Public Sector03 May 2024 | 2

Imagine if Uber offered car loans, not just rides. Its Indonesian analog will do this soon

Superapp GoTo has an angle on everything – even taming TikTok

Software01 May 2024 |

Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident

Plus: Pilots on Lion Air’s Batik fall asleep and miss Jakarta

Offbeat11 Mar 2024 | 42

India’s homebrew RISC-V CPU goes on sale in new development board

Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei’s tablets beat iPad sales; Japanese supermarket’s long ransomware fight; Do Kwon extradited

Systems26 Feb 2024 | 3

Superapp Gojek fine-tunes each new error message for a week. What? Why?

Multilingual service spans five nations and finds fancy graphics improve engagement

Software20 Feb 2024 | 14

ASEAN bloc to build submarine cable network, link government apps

APAC in Brief PLUS: TikTok returns to Indonesian e-commerce; Chinese giants' EV battery swap scheme; India drops mobile tariffs

Off-Prem04 Feb 2024 | 1

ByteDance slides around Indonesian social commerce ban with $1.5 billion buy

Takes huge stake in local superapp Tokopedia, for the good of the small business community

Legal12 Dec 2023 |

IBM outlines Asian growth ambitions with acquisition of Indonesian ERP consultancy

SAP and Oracle services provider Equine Global becomes part of Big Blue

Software01 Nov 2023 | 2

Indonesia grounds second broadband satellite to free up digital inclusion funds

Boeing and SpaceX lose out. Ministry is betting 70 million people without internet access won't

Off-Prem23 Oct 2023 | 2

US lawmakers want China export bans to include open tech like RISC-V

ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: South Korea to fine Apple, Google; Digital fraud booms in Hong Kong; Singtel slings TrustWave

Legal08 Oct 2023 | 13

Indonesia, TikTok's best market, bans social commerce

Made-In-China network's attempt to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet

Legal28 Sep 2023 | 4

Fujitsu to quit Tokyo HQ

ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Micron breaks ground in India; Hong Kong goes for green fintech; Taiwan to launch first sub; and more

Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 2

OpenAI boss Sam Altman receives Indonesia's first golden visa

Open AI boss to get 'red carpet' at immigration

AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 1

INTERPOL shutters '16shop' phishing-as-a-service outfit

Alleged administrator cuffed in Indonesia, associate arrested in Japan, accused of selling fake Amazons for $60

Security09 Aug 2023 |

China EV market share hits 27 percent as tax breaks extended

Asia In Brief PLUS: Indonesia's digital success under the radar; Singapore picks Google AI; India claims streaming record

Offbeat05 Jun 2023 | 8

Counterfeit crud crooks crossed over to e-commerce during COVID

Piracy-as-a-service, 'bulletproof' ISPs, fake influencers, and big Chinese e-tailers turned a blind eye

Networks01 Feb 2023 | 3

India seeks verified IDs to register email accounts

Asia In Brief PLUS: Warnings on Chinese payment schemes; AWS brushes up its Cantonese; Hong Kong ponders digital dollar; and more!

Security26 Sep 2022 | 3

Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly

Asia In Brief PLUS: Qualys CEO says APAC has infosec advantages; Singapore's Sea ebbs in Americas; Toshiba's tepid takeover update; and more

CSO19 Sep 2022 | 4

Huawei dangles developer incentives to sell Harmony OS around the world

Asia In Brief Plus: Indonesia's four-hour takedown demand; Peak Facebook in Korea?; Alibaba frees font; and more.

Software22 Aug 2022 | 7

Indonesia sparks outrage by blocking PayPal, gaming sites, for compliance oversight

Yahoo! was blocked too, but … meh

Legal01 Aug 2022 | 18

Spyware developer charged by Australian Police after 14,500 sales

Asia In Brief PLUS: India open to space tourism; China/Indonesia infosec pact; Paytm denies breach; Infosys dodges government again; and more

Security01 Aug 2022 | 2

Tropical island paradise ponders tax-free 'Digital Nomad Visa'

Live and work in Bali, pay tax at home

Offbeat27 Jun 2022 | 29

'All digital token transactions carry higher inherent risks': Singapore government

Increases regulation on operators to stop money laundering and terror funding

Software06 Apr 2022 | 2

Xiaomi adds earthquake alert system to some smartphones

Customers in Indonesia promised warning of wobbles sooner than is otherwise possible

Personal Tech05 Apr 2022 | 3

Indonesia's new mega-telco to build 18,000km submarine cable to the US

Coming out party for Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison

Networks11 Feb 2022 | 6

Indonesia bars financial institutions from offering crypto services

Advises citizens to avoid 'Ponzi schemes'

Security27 Jan 2022 | 17

AWS flicks the switch on an Indonesian region

Does the cloud belong in a city that's literally sinking? Rent some servers and find out

Off-Prem14 Dec 2021 | 1

Indonesian President's COVID jab cert leaks – authorities argue that's perfectly reasonable

It's not as if politicians' birthdays aren't well known, and they get jabbed on live TV

Security06 Sep 2021 | 2

Indonesian authorities probe million-record leak from national COVID app

Someone didn't secure an Elasticsearch database, researchers allege

Security01 Sep 2021 | 2

'Condolences on the death of your conscience' says card from Indonesian delivery drivers to local Uber clone after payments slashed

Also sent lovely flowers as US$22bn GoTo Group cut driver bonuses

Personal Tech10 Jun 2021 | 17

US slaps tariffs on countries that hit Big Tech with digital services taxes ... then pauses them immediately

Applies pressure as negotiations on harmonized global web levies near conclusion

Legal03 Jun 2021 | 42

Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme leaks at least a million citizens' records

Tech Ministry trying to figure out just how much personal info has made it onto notorious RaidForums data-mart

Security24 May 2021 | 12

Indonesian web giants Gojek and Tokopedia merge to create Asian super-app

Combine as ‘GoTo Group’, will represent two percent of GDP and say scale will help them grow

Personal Tech17 May 2021 | 1

Tencent Cloud opens first Indonesian data center

Jakarta bit barn offers subset of services - CLI, GPU, some storage services, advanced security services and serverless aren't on offer

Off-Prem13 Apr 2021 |

Please stop leaking your own personal data online, Indonesia's COVID-19 taskforce tells citizens

Posting pics of 'I got the jab' certs, complete with their QR codes, has authorities worried

Security25 Mar 2021 | 14

Imagine Amazon, Uber and PayPal merging. Indonesia's rough equivalents are probably doing it

Tokopedia and Gojek deal reportedly close, as Indonesia courts Tesla and wrestles SpaceX

Off-Prem10 Mar 2021 | 5

Azure and AWS expand their cloudy Asian boot-prints

Japan doubles up for AWS, Indonesia warms up for Microsoft as Alibaba and Google lie in wait

PaaS + IaaS02 Mar 2021 |

When it comes to taxing tech giants, America is out, France is in, Canada and Indonesia are going their own way

With Trump on the way out, 2021 is going to be digital levy a-go-go time

SaaS02 Dec 2020 | 65

Microsoft flips big Indonesian e-tailer Bukalapak into Azure from Google cloud

Taking a strategic stake in the biz probably helped and shows how big tech is buying into Asia

SaaS04 Nov 2020 | 1

Indonesia’s black-market phone prevention plan bricks a whole bunch of handsets

Database recording legit handsets appears to have exceeded capacity

Personal Tech13 Oct 2020 | 32

Indonesia starts taxing Minecraft, Skype, Zoom and Twitter

Regional video streaming companies added to list of entities required to pay Digital Services Tax

Legal10 Sep 2020 | 7

Three Facebooks, four more Amazons and one Apple to collect Indonesia’s digital services tax

And so will TikTok and Disney, with more to come

Personal Tech11 Aug 2020 | 5

Indonesia slaps 10 percent tax on three Googles

But only on one AWS, one Spotify and one Netflix - and zero Microsofts

Legal09 Jul 2020 | 5

Indonesia’s capital city is literally sinking. Google just opened a new cloud region there anyway

Jakarta region is live now. And hopefully high and dry

SaaS24 Jun 2020 | 6