Investor.id reports that IFT Group and BellSoft have formed a strategic partnership to help Indonesian companies modernize the Java applications behind their operations, and to make their technology foundations ready for cloud and AI.
The cost of standing still
Java still underpins critical systems in banking, telecommunications, and public institutions. With regulation tightening and supply-chain risk rising, outdated Java is now a business liability as much as a technical one. Indonesia recorded 5.5 billion cyberattacks in 2025, according to the Presidential Staff Office.
Three things companies get
Through Liberica JDK, BellSoft offers:
- Licensing certainty: stable, transparent pricing at a time when Java licensing terms elsewhere keep changing.
- Security: regular updates for critical vulnerabilities, plus hardened zero-CVE container images.
- Efficiency: up to 30% less memory and storage with Liberica JDK Lite, which lowers cloud bills. The Performance Edition makes existing Java 8 and 11 applications 10–15% faster on a JDK 21-based JVM, without rewriting them.
What AI changes
"AI doesn't create entirely new security problems. It amplifies the ones we already have, at machine speed," BellSoft CEO Alex Belokrylov told Investor.id. Since most enterprise software is assembled from open-source parts, and Omdia finds 77% of organizations have had a supply-chain incident, BellSoft starts with what goes into each build: an SBOM, minimal Alpaquita Linux base images, and ongoing patches.
IFT Group's role
IFT Group will be BellSoft's local partner, giving Indonesian companies access to its technology and expertise and adapting implementation to how they operate. "We want Indonesian enterprises to have secure, efficient, and modern Java, and a foundation ready for cloud and AI," said IFT Group Founder Arifa Tan.
