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Indosat CEO Vikram Sinha is building an AI for Indonesia’s local languages
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“What gets solved in the U.S. or China might not work in Indonesia,” he told Fortune in early April, pointing to the country’s different culture and languages.
Key facts
Indosat reported 56.5 trillion Indonesian rupiah ($3.3 billion) in revenue for 2025, a 1.1% increase over the prior year, while profits climbed 12.2% to 5.5 trillion rupiah ($320 million)
In 2021, Ooredoo tapped Sinha to lead the newly formed IOH, created from a merger between Indosat and Hutchison 3 Indonesia, owned by Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison
That strong performance has continued into the first quarter of 2026, with revenue jumping by 12.1% year-on-year
The ability for governments, banks, and other regulated entities to use AI relies on accuracy,” explains Pak-Sun Ting, cofounder of Votee AI, a Hong Kong-based startup that has developed an LLM
Summary
Is there room in the global AI race for anyone other than the United States and China? Sovereign AI has become the buzzword of choice for about every government concerned about leaving the AI space solely to U.S. and Chinese labs like OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI. Sinha is betting that the next phase of AI—running models near the end user, in local languages for local problems—will belong to telecom companies like Indosat in the so-called Global South. Still, even Sinha wondered whether he could turn “sovereignty” into a business.