Huawei Cloud Deepens Reach in Indonesia, Accelerating the Development of an ASEAN AI Engine

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 2, 2025, Huawei Cloud Summit Indonesia convened in Jakarta, attracting more than 500 representatives from governments, enterprises, and ecosystem. The summit focused on exploring new opportunities in the AI era and promoting leapfrog development to realize the vision of Digital Indonesia.

Xin Dajiang, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Huawei Indonesia, said in his address that Huawei Cloud collaborates with leading enterprises like Telkomsel, Indosat, XLSmart, PLN, and to serve local giants such as Bluebird, BCA, CT Corp, and Alfamart and hundreds of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Indonesia to foster ecosystem growth, generate employment, and nurture the next generation of digital talent. He noted that Huawei Cloud's Jakarta Region has three availability zones (AZs). AI and cloud technologies not only offer technical support but also drive innovation in digital transformation of individuals, enterprises, and governments. Huawei Cloud embodies the gotong royong spirit in Indonesia, for Indonesia.

Indonesia's large population and diverse industry scenarios are crucial for building an ASEAN AI engine. Sunny Shang, President of Huawei Cloud Asia Pacific emphasized Huawei Cloud's commitment to continually enhancing local infrastructure and full-stack AI capabilities in Indonesia, accelerating industry intelligence and fostering a thriving ecosystem with more than 300 partners.

Enhancing local investment and ecosystem development to build a robust cloud foundation for the AI era

In 2022, Huawei Cloud's 3-AZ data center entered operation, delivering active-active disaster recovery, 99.99% high availability, and 20 ms latency across the country for superior experience. Leon Fang, CEO of Huawei Cloud Indonesia, announced that Huawei Cloud will introduce the fourth AZ in 2026, as part its continued investment in local infrastructure.

Huawei Cloud is not just a technology enabler, but a long-term digital transformation partner for local enterprises. During the summit, Huawei Cloud and Telkomsel, Indonesia's leading telecommunications company, announced an AI partnership to accelerate industry intelligence with full-stack AI capabilities.

Huawei Cloud has established a thriving digital ecosystem in Indonesia, collaborating with more than 300 partners to serve customers across industries. At the event, Huawei Cloud its key partner Telkom released a joint CDN service to improve local content distribution.

Full-stack AI: Innovating for Indonesian enterprises' future

AI technology paradigms are shifting—from generative to agentic, from public data to industry-specific data, from commercial to open-source models, and from concentrated AI compute to a diverse landscape. Cloud data centers are adapting to these shifts, transforming into an intelligent foundation for the AI era. William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, emphasized that Huawei Cloud keeps opening up full-stack AI capabilities to help local customers capitalize on AI opportunities.

Huawei Cloud continues to strengthen data and AI capabilities by offering leading databases, upgrading data services, and innovating AI platforms. At the data service level, Huawei Cloud launched the next-generation serverless AI-native lakehouse Data Fabric. This provides a high-performance unified lakehouse engine, enabling users to develop T+0 real-time lakehouse solutions. At the engine layer, the latest data warehouse service DWS 3.0 allows for independent scaling of storage and compute on demand. Huawei Cloud database TaurusDB, through in-depth integration with DFV distributed storage, achieves significant advancements in architecture, performance, elastic scaling, and high availability, further enhancing data processing efficiency. In terms of innovative AI platforms, Huawei Cloud offers the one-stop AI development platform ModelArts and the AI agent platform Versatile. These platforms support popular open-source AI models for efficient AI agent development.

Cloud for Good: Empowering sustainable development with cloud and AI

Huawei Cloud stays true to its Cloud for Good philosophy, harnessing cloud and AI technologies to benefit communities, the environment, and sustainable development. Aka Dai, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing, showcased how Huawei's Cloud for Good initiative is transforming Indonesia. Huawei Cloud works with local institutions, universities, and organizations to nurture local cloud and AI talent. To date, Huawei Cloud has signed talent cultivation cooperation agreements with more than 100 universities and academic research institutions, more than 20 government departments, and key customers, helping Indonesia cultivate more than 100,000 digital professionals, providing ongoing impetus to the local digital economy. Huawei Cloud plans to broaden collaboration with customers and partners to accelerate Indonesia's digital transformation in areas like environment, agriculture, healthcare, and education, fostering an inclusive, sustainable, and intelligent Indonesia.

The event features a packed agenda of keynotes, sessions, and exhibitions. During the sessions, Huawei Cloud highlighted its full-stack AI capabilities, discussed technological innovations with partners from sectors like e-commerce & retail, FinTech, local life, media & entertainment, and logistics, and shared the latest cloud native practices in typical scenarios with enterprises such as detikcom, , FancyTech, ConnectNow AI, Speakly AI and OnePro. At the enterprise session, Huawei Cloud reaffirmed its commitments to leading technologies, localized services, and an open ecosystem to support the growth of local governments and businesses. Customers including Bank Neo Commerce, Telkom, and Alfamart showcased their industry innovation achievements using Huawei Cloud. Alongside Ulearning, Cloudwise, Talk Cloud, Wattwise, Cognify, and Dyna.AI, they launched the Huawei Cloud Indonesia AI Partner Alliance for Governments and Enterprises to accelerate the intelligent development for local enterprises. At the partner session, Huawei Cloud engaged in deep discussions with local customers and partners on ecosystem strategies, unveiled new ecosystem cooperation measures, and presented annual awards to partners such as Paratekno、Weefer、Solusi. In the exhibition area, Huawei Cloud displayed cutting-edge experiences, along with the latest advancements in databases, big data, and distributed cloud. Leading partners from the AI, FinTech, Internet, and retail fields, such as Fortius, Soltius, and Ayodya Dialog Semesta, joined to showcase joint innovation achievements.

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Huawei Cloud Deepens Reach in Indonesia, Accelerating the Development of an ASEAN AI Engine

Huawei Cloud Deepens Reach in Indonesia, Accelerating the Development of an ASEAN AI Engine

Huawei Cloud Deepens Reach in Indonesia, Accelerating the Development of an ASEAN AI Engine

Huawei Cloud Deepens Reach in Indonesia, Accelerating the Development of an ASEAN AI Engine

Huawei Cloud Deepens Reach in Indonesia, Accelerating the Development of an ASEAN AI Engine

Huawei Cloud Deepens Reach in Indonesia, Accelerating the Development of an ASEAN AI Engine

Huawei Cloud Deepens Reach in Indonesia, Accelerating the Development of an ASEAN AI Engine

Huawei Cloud Deepens Reach in Indonesia, Accelerating the Development of an ASEAN AI Engine

SHENZHEN, China, April 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 30, Delonix Group presented two new initiatives at its 2026 strategy conference: Genie AI, embedded in its Betterwood App, and a customer experience framework known as the Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches Model.

Individually, they resemble product and service upgrades. Taken together, they suggest something more structural: an attempt to replace the logic on which the hospitality industry has operated for decades.

For most of its modern history, the sector has been governed by a simple equation—growth through physical expansion. More rooms, better locations, higher occupancy. Scale was both strategy and moat.

That equation is beginning to break.

Chairman Zheng Nanyan framed the shift not as cyclical, but structural. The convergence of maturing consumer expectations and rapidly deployable AI systems is eroding the effectiveness of asset-led growth. Standardization, once a tool for efficiency, now produces indistinguishable experiences. Capital intensity, long tolerated, is becoming a constraint. 

What is emerging in its place is not a more efficient version of the same model, but a different organizing principle altogether: demand, not supply, as the system's point of origin.

From Capacity to Interpretation

In this emerging model, the central problem is no longer how to build and fill capacity, but how to interpret and respond to fragmented, real-time customer intent.

This is where Delonix is positioning Genie AI.

Unlike most applications of AI in hospitality—which tend to sit at the interface level—Genie AI is designed to sit in the middle of the system, between intent and execution. It does not simply respond to requests; it structures them.

A guest interaction—whether through app input or voice—is translated into a sequence of executable tasks, routed through a centralized decision layer, and distributed to the nearest available human resource, before feeding back into the system as data.

The technical architecture is not unprecedented. What is notable is the ambition to make it foundational.

If it works as intended, service ceases to be a function of individual responsiveness and becomes instead a property of the system itself. Variability, historically managed after the fact, is designed out at the level of coordination.

In that sense, AI is no longer augmenting service. It is defining its boundaries.

Standardization Was the Solution. Now It Is the Constraint.

The industry's previous growth model depended on standardization: replicable rooms, predictable services, consistent delivery across locations. This enabled scale, but at the cost of differentiation.

As consumer expectations evolve, that trade-off is becoming less acceptable.

Delonix's response is not to abandon standardization, but to layer variability on top of it—systematically.

The Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches Model introduces a framework in which products and services are no longer fixed configurations, but evolving modules. Customer interaction becomes an input into how the product itself is iterated over time.

The implication is subtle but significant.

Hotels are no longer static assets with service attached. They become adaptive systems, where the product is continuously reshaped by usage.

For customers, this promises a form of progression—an experience that accumulates rather than resets. For operators and investors, it suggests a shift from one-off capital deployment to ongoing, incremental reconfiguration.

In both cases, the underlying assumption is the same: value is not embedded in the asset, but generated through interaction.

Control Shifts to the System Layer

What ties these elements together is not technology alone, but control.

In the traditional model, control resided in assets—ownership, location, physical scale. In the emerging model, it moves upward, into the system layer that interprets demand, allocates resources, and continuously adjusts the product.

This shift has implications beyond efficiency.

A system that can interpret intent, coordinate execution, and learn from outcomes begins to set the terms of competition. The advantage no longer lies in having more assets, but in having a better system for deciding how those assets are used.

In that sense, AI is not just infrastructure. It is governance.

An Industry at the Edge of Repricing

China's broader push to integrate AI into industrial and consumer systems provides the backdrop for this shift. Policy frameworks such as the State Council's "AI+" initiative are accelerating deployment, but the more consequential changes are happening at the level of business models.

Hospitality is one of the more exposed sectors.

As the marginal return on physical expansion declines, and as customer expectations become more fluid, the industry is moving toward a repricing of what constitutes value. Scale, once the primary moat, is becoming easier to replicate and harder to defend.

What replaces it is still being defined.

Delonix's approach offers one possible direction: treating demand as a continuously generated input, and building systems capable of capturing and compounding it. Whether this model proves durable remains to be seen. But its premise is clear.

The future of hospitality may depend less on how hotels are built, and more on how they think.

About Delonix Group

Delonix Group is a leading international hospitality and experiential consumption group in the Asia-Pacific region. Ranked 14th globally, the Group partnered with Marriott International to launch the world's first dual-branded luxury property: MajesTang Hotel • A Tribute Portfolio Hotel, while independently creating MaisonLee, a Tang-inspired premium business travel brand. As one of the first Chinese hotel groups to expand overseas, Delonix has established a presence in high-potential markets such as Japan and Indonesia, now spanning more than 200 cities worldwide. Its portfolio encompasses Swiss-Belhotel, Artotel, Model J, hotel MONday, and other brands, positioning the Group at the forefront of building a new generation global platform for high-end hospitality and culturally immersive travel.

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When Demand Becomes the System: Delonix and the Rewriting of Hospitality's Operating Logic