Red Hat Celebrates PT Bussan Auto Finance and Pegadaian for Driving Open Source Excellence at the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 for Indonesia

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the winners of the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 for Indonesia. This year, Red Hat is celebrating PT Bussan Auto Finance (BAF) and PT Pegadaian (Persero) for their forward thinking use of open source to drive innovation, enable transformation and create meaningful impact across their organizations.

Embodying this year’s theme, “Unlock what’s next,” the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 celebrates customers turning these trends into tangible results. The awards recognize 30 winners across the region whose inventive use of Red Hat’s open source technologies has sparked innovation, strengthened competitiveness, and delivered lasting value for their industries, customers, and employees. These organizations demonstrate how open source empowers enterprises to reimagine possibilities, navigate complexity, and seize new opportunities in an evolving landscape to define future competitiveness.

The awards comprise five categories: Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-native Development, Automation – and the newly added AI and Emerging Tech. 

Category: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud-Native Development

Winner: PT Bussan Auto Finance (BAF)

PT Bussan Auto Finance (BAF), one of Indonesia’s leading multifinance companies and the exclusive financing partner for Yamaha motorcycles, offers a wide range of financial solutions including car, electronics, gadget, agricultural machinery, and Sharia-compliant financing. To meet the needs of a rapidly growing digital customer base, BAF set out to modernize its core applications, improve scalability, and enhance performance across its digital platforms.

BAF adopted Red Hat OpenShift to transition from a monolithic, virtual machine-based system to a modern microservices architecture. This transformation began with BAF Mobile, the company’s customer-facing app, and expanded to include BAF Kiosk, a self-service terminal for customers. Supported by backup and recovery environments, the new cloud-native architecture delivers high availability, improved resilience, and faster time to market for digital services. With a unified hybrid cloud infrastructure now in place, BAF has strengthened its ability to innovate, scale efficiently, and deliver a seamless experience across both online and offline channels, empowering customers nationwide with more accessible, reliable, and convenient financial services.

Category: Automation

Winner: PT Pegadaian (Persero)

PT Pegadaian has long played a vital role in driving financial inclusion through its extensive network of more than 4,000 branches and 24 million customers across Indonesia. As part of its digital transformation journey, PT Pegadaian recognized the need to automate key IT operations to improve service quality, reduce manual workloads, and strengthen its growing digital ecosystem.

Through the implementation of Red Hat solutions, Pegadaian successfully streamlined daily IT operations and accelerated organizational efficiency. Automation — executed seamlessly through a centralized chat-based platform—has significantly reduced manual intervention and improved response times for various daily operation tasks, while also enhancing system monitoring and accelerating incident recovery. The result is faster, more reliable IT service delivery with minimal downtime, boosting both employee productivity and customer experience across the enterprise.

Supporting Quotes
Marjet Andriesse, senior vice president and general manager, APJC, Red Hat

“The pace of change in Asia Pacific shows no signs of slowing, especially as AI becomes a core driver of business transformation. Despite these demands, our customers have delivered remarkable results, showing that innovation thrives when paired with open source. The Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 are an opportune time to recognize and celebrate these achievements, highlighting how our customers are unlocking what’s next and shaping a future defined by creativity, resilience, and impact.”

Yudono Chayadi, Director,  PT Bussan Auto Finance (BAF)
“Modernizing our digital platforms was key to improving customer experience and operational agility across Indonesia. By working with Red Hat, we have transformed our legacy systems into a modern, cloud-native infrastructure that allows us to deliver new digital services faster and more reliably. With deployment cycles now shortened from three months to one week, our teams can innovate continuously while maintaining stability and compliance.”

Supriyanto, Executive Vice President, IT Centre of Excellence, Pegadaian 
“Automation is not merely about operational efficiency—it represents a strategic transformation in how Pegadaian delivers value in the digital era. By harnessing the power of open source technologies, we are building an adaptive and intelligent digital foundation that accelerates innovation, enhances data-driven decision-making, and ensures resilience across our operations. This transformation strengthens Pegadaian’s long-term vision of sustainable financial inclusion, empowering us to stay agile, scalable, and consistently responsive to the evolving needs of millions of customers across Indonesia.”