JAKARTA — Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, is developing generative AI systems centered on its own culture and languages as a complement to Western-focused models.

GoTo, a unit of GoTo Gojek Tokopedia, in November, unveiled Sahabat-AI, a large language model developed in partnership with wireless carrier Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison that has been trained mainly on texts in Bahasa Indonesia and other local languages such as Javanese.