Supporting Digital Transformation Acceleration, Alibaba Cloud Commitment to Focus on Talent Development and Local Partnership Programs in Indonesia

Jack Ma's leading cloud computing service provider, Alibaba Cloud, is committed to investing more in human resources in Indonesia in 2022. According to the plan, Alibaba Cloud targets to provide digital training to more than 50.000 Indonesian talents through the “Digital Talent Training” program. 

Collaborating with 11 universities in Indonesia, Alibaba Cloud promises to train Indonesian talents with digital skill sets in areas such as cloud computing, data analytics, and machine learning.

Not only that, later, this program will also provide more support to local startups and developer, expand collaboration with local ecosystems, and offer more advanced industrial solutions to support the acceleration of digital transformation in the country. 

This is in line with Alibaba Cloud's commitment to always provide support to the fast-growing startup community. This factor is also demonstrated by Alibaba Cloud by organizing a series of events, such as StartupFest, a large-scale event where Startups perform pitch to obtain cloud resources free worth up to USD 60.000, and the opportunity to gain access to a global investment track. 

This year also Alibaba Cloud will continue the event Hosted Re-cloud Challenges in the community developer, offers development tools low-code along with coupons and cash funds to help the developer create solutions together in platform AlibabaCloud. 

As the backbone of Alibaba Group's digital technology and intelligence, Alibaba Cloud continues to expand its ecosystem of cooperation through various technology companies and networks (channel). 

Alibaba Cloud has an agenda to increase this cooperation program by including 200 partners from various sectors, ranging from retail, finance, logistics, to Gaming by the end of 2022, providing customized industrial solutions as well as consulting on digital transformation for businesses to serve various digital migration demands.

In line with this, General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Indonesia, Leon Chen said, "With the three data center and one center scrubbing in Indonesia, we have grown strongly and have expanded our customer base across 10 sectors in the past year. Going forward, we are determined to provide more local human resources through the initiatives we run, such as providing digital talent training, providing support to the startup community and developer, provide solutions together with partners, and introduce leading-edge technology to the Indonesian market," he explained in a press release that DailySocial.id accept.

The company that was founded in 2009 has become a trusted partner for local startups to run digital businesses and capture various opportunities for business growth. Like the two new Unicorn members that appeared last year, Xendit and Kopi Kenangan, who trusted Alibaba Cloud to build its digital operational infrastructure.

As a financial technology company, Xendit relies on Alibaba Cloud services for computing systems, containers, , as well Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt and protect sensitive data assets.

Theo Mitsutama, Senior Engineering Manager of Xendit said, “As Xendit continues to increase its users rapidly every year, we are looking for partners cloud who can be trusted to provide comprehensive solutions that contain continuous innovation, agility and reliability. We are very honored to be partnering with Alibaba Cloud.”

Not to be left behind, other startups such as Speedwork and Teman Bumil are also collaborating with Alibaba Cloud to help make it easier to bring innovation and digital creation to life.

Speedwork as a provider of car maintenance solutions, can rapidly expand its business across the country with experience omnichannel Smooth O2O. Speedwork leverages Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure such as network and to build a solid technological foundation for its fast-growing digital commerce business.

“By leveraging Alibaba Cloud's robust and secure technology infrastructure, we can leverage the power of cloud computing to drive our strong business growth and provide seamless service to our customers. We look forward to working with Alibaba Cloud in the future for more innovation and digital creation,” said Foeryanto Jawoto, CEO of Speedwork.

Same with the companies above, Teman Bumil as an application parenting which provides information and educational services to help millions of millennial mothers are also working with Alibaba Cloud to provide services cloud which cover containerization, securityand storage.

“The Teman Bumil application strives to support mothers, during pregnancy and parenting, through collaboration with like-minded partners. We are pleased to have achieved success together with Alibaba Cloud, and we look forward to bringing even greater benefits to mothers by using the infrastructure cloud revolutionary product from Alibaba Cloud,” said Evi Kristianti – Head of Patient Pillar PT GUE (Global Urban Essential)