March 14 (Reuters) - Oracle Corp ( ORCL ) is in

discussions with the Indonesian government to establish a cloud

services center in the country's Batam Island, Bloomberg News

reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Nongsa Digital Park in Batam is favoured as a location

considering its "free trade zone" status and its proximity to

city-state of Singapore and Malaysia, where Oracle already has

plans for similar cloud service businesses, the report said.

In early October, Oracle had said it planned to invest more

than $6.5 billion to set up its first public cloud region in

Malaysia.

Oracle, Indonesia's Investment ministry and Communication

ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for

comments.

The company also wants to continue its expansion across

Asia, with more data centres and infrastructure projects planned

"from Japan all the way down to New Zealand... all the way to

India", Garrett Ilg, Oracle's executive vice president for Japan

and Asia Pacific, had told Reuters in a statement earlier.

Oracle also has two existing cloud computing facilities in

Singapore and currently has 50 public cloud regions across 24

countries, according to its website.