Gatra Priyandita is an analyst at the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, where he leads a project researching cyber-enabled intellectual property theft. He is a political scientist by training and specializes in the study of foreign policy and security in Southeast Asia. He holds a PhD in political science from the Australian National University.
In Indonesia, Huawei and ZTE have become trusted partners of the government and private firms looking to upgrade their telecommunications infrastructure. Watch Gatra Priyandita explain how these two Chinese telecommunications giants became dominant forces in Indonesia's tech sector.
Despite ambivalence about Chinese intentions in Indonesia’s political and defense establishment, Chinese telecoms firms have successfully used strategies of localization to position themselves as trusted cybersecurity providers to the country.
