Galvanize Cloud Adoption to Power Indonesia’s Digital Economy

In addition to RUU PDP, Indonesia also has restrictive data localization policies that make the Internet less accessible and secure, more costly and complicated, and less innovative. A recent study on cross-border data flows by ITIF notes that over five years, Indonesia’s gross economic output dropped by 7.8 percent while experiencing lower productivity and an increase in prices due to more stringent data restrictions from 2013-2018.

Specifically, for cloud service providers, data localization makes it impossible for them to employ cybersecurity best practices, such as through “sharding,” wherein data is spread over multiple data centers. This is particularly useful to SMEs who cannot afford to implement a robust security program.