BellSoft, the US-based OpenJDK vendor, is expanding into Indonesia through a partnership with IFT Group. The two companies will help Indonesian enterprises modernize and secure the Java applications their operations depend on, and get them ready for cloud and AI.
A long-term local presence
BellSoft's Co-Founder and CEO, Alex Belokrylov, told AsiaToday that Indonesia is a strategic market in the company's Southeast Asia expansion, because of its size, its digital growth, and its large enterprise sector. Working with IFT Group as a local partner is how BellSoft plans to stay in the market for the long term.
Modernizing enterprise Java
Banks, telecom operators, and public institutions in Indonesia run core systems on Java while facing tougher regulation and software supply-chain risk. BellSoft's Liberica JDK addresses this on three fronts:
- Licensing: stable, transparent pricing with clear terms.
- Security: regular critical patches and hardened, zero-CVE container images.
- Efficiency: Liberica JDK Lite uses up to 30% less memory and disk space, and the Performance Edition runs Java 8 and 11 applications on a JDK 21-based JVM for 10–15% better performance, without migrating code.
Building local capability
"Many of Indonesia's most important enterprise systems are built on Java," said Arifa Tan, Founder of IFT Group. She said the collaboration brings world-class Java technology to Indonesia while building local expertise, so that enterprises are ready for cloud and AI.
Security in the AI era
AsiaToday cites Omdia research showing that 77% of organizations have faced a software supply-chain incident. To counter this, BellSoft provides a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for every build, minimal Alpaquita Linux base images, and continued patches for Java versions other vendors no longer support. Indonesian organizations can now get all of this through IFT Group.
