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Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent

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Based on NVIDIA Newsroom · Aug 14, 2026

Indonesia launched its first university-based AI center in Yogyakarta, uniting government, industry, and academia to develop AI solutions for national priorities such as healthcare, agriculture, and disaster response.

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Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent
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Established under Indonesia’s AI Center of Excellence initiative, UGM Indosat NVAITC adds government, industry and academia together to develop AI that addresses Indonesia’s most urgent national priorities.
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It also connects Indonesian researchers to a worldwide ecosystem of expertise.
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Indonesia is the world’s fourth-most populous country, with researchers and developers working on problems of scale and urgency.
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What they’ve historically lacked is access to the compute, models and infrastructure to move from insight to impact.

Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, NVIDIA, and Universitas Gadjah Mada inaugurated the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) in Yogyakarta. The center is part of the national AI Center of Excellence initiative, aiming to foster AI innovation to address Indonesia’s key challenges. Minister Meutya Hafid emphasized the initiative’s role in advancing Indonesia’s AI sovereignty and economic growth.

The center provides researchers and students with access to NVIDIA’s AI platform and Indosat’s sovereign GPU-as-a-service platform, GPU Merdeka. It offers enterprise-grade computing, AI software, and technical mentorship, connecting Indonesian talent to a global ecosystem. Indosat’s CEO Vikram Sinha highlighted the initiative’s goal to expand AI access across the country and position Indonesia as a developer of AI technologies, not just a user.

Three initial projects focus on healthcare, agriculture, and disaster response. In healthcare, researchers are developing eNose-TB, an AI-powered tool to screen for tuberculosis using breath samples, aiming to make screening accessible in remote areas. The project is led by dr. Dian Kesumapramudya Nurputra from UGM’s Faculty of Medicine.

The agriculture project, SmartAgri, uses multimodal AI and edge computing to deliver precision farming recommendations tailored to Indonesian crops and smallholders. Meanwhile, Tech4Disaster is building a geospatial AI platform to provide early warnings and improve coordination during natural disasters, leveraging NVIDIA’s accelerated computing.

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