Indosat becomes Indonesia's first NVIDIA Cloud Partner
In February 2024, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NVIDIA at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, making it the first NVIDIA Cloud Partner in Indonesia.
Key takeaways
- Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison signed the MoU with NVIDIA at MWC 2024 in Barcelona.
- The agreement made Indosat Indonesia's first NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP).
- IT services subsidiary Lintasarta deploys the NVIDIA GPUs and offers GPU-as-a-Service (Deka GPU) to enterprise customers.
- The partnership later expanded into GPU Merdeka by Lintasarta, an NVIDIA-accelerated sovereign AI cloud.
The MWC 2024 announcement
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NVIDIA at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, establishing IOH as Indonesia's first NVIDIA Cloud Partner. NVIDIA SVP of Telecom Ronnie Vasishta took part in the signing. IOH President Director and CEO Vikram Sinha called it 'a pivotal moment in Indonesia's AI journey,' tying the deal to the company's broader goal of 'connecting and empowering every Indonesian' through digitalization.
The NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) program gives partners access to reference architectures, technical support, NVIDIA AI software, and the wider NVIDIA ecosystem — the same building blocks NVIDIA uses with its largest hyperscale cloud partners, scaled for a national telecom operator.
What it unlocked: GPU-as-a-Service through Lintasarta
The commercial delivery runs through IOH's IT services subsidiary Lintasarta, which deploys NVIDIA GPUs in high-density data centers and offers them to enterprise customers as GPU-as-a-Service under the Deka GPU brand — spanning bare metal, infrastructure, and platform tiers. The data centers themselves are operated by BDx Indonesia, a joint venture between IOH, Lintasarta, and BDx Data Center.
This MoU is the root of everything that followed: it's the credential behind GPU Merdeka by Lintasarta (the sovereign AI cloud built at a BDx Indonesia facility in under three months), and it's referenced directly in Indosat's later, much larger Zankore AI infrastructure platform announcement with Ooredoo Group and Nokia.
Why it matters for enterprises evaluating GPUaaS in Indonesia
Being the first NVIDIA Cloud Partner in the country is a specific, checkable credential — it means Indosat/Lintasarta infrastructure is built against NVIDIA reference architectures rather than a generic GPU rental. For teams sizing GPU capacity for training, inference, or RAG, that translates to supported driver and software stacks, a direct line to NVIDIA architectures, and a locally hosted alternative to routing sensitive workloads through offshore cloud regions.