Indonesia Unveils 2025 National AI Roadmap for Responsible AI in Public Services

September 29, 2026
Indonesia Unveils 2025 National AI Roadmap for Responsible AI in Public Services
  • The Roadmap is designed to translate guidance into practical decisions across ministries, with each agency tailoring the approach to its sector while identifying AI-related risks, protecting data, ensuring accountability, and maintaining human oversight in public services.

  • AI talent is the bridge to real-world public-sector problems, and the AI Talent Factory is training practitioners across four universities to design government solutions.

  • Indonesia’s AI sovereignty centers on building capabilities through talent, infrastructure, data, and innovation, leveraging international technologies to accelerate deployment while preserving choice, control, and risk management in line with national interests.

  • A key challenge is aligning rapid AI development with agencies’ readiness, requiring improvements in data quality, infrastructure, and governance frameworks.

  • Leaders like Said Mirza Pahlevi emphasize talent development, investment, governance, and cross-sector collaboration as crucial to AI adoption in the public sector.

  • The 2025 National AI Roadmap White Paper underpins regulations and sets the government's strategic direction for governance, talent, infrastructure, data, and innovation.

  • The AI Ethics Presidential Regulation will establish the framework for safe and responsible AI development, deployment, and use in Indonesia.

  • Komdigi is drafting two Presidential Regulations—the 2026-2029 National AI Roadmap and an AI Ethics regulation—to guide government use of AI in public services and manage risks responsibly.

  • The National AI Roadmap will create a National AI Coordination Task Force with multiple ministries and stakeholders to align implementation, track progress, and evaluate adoption across agencies.

  • Public services are a priority for AI, aiming to improve information access, document processing, and service responses while keeping officers accountable for decisions.

  • Cross-sector practical guidance and regulatory sandboxes will help agencies identify use cases, prepare data, test systems, and establish accountability mechanisms.

  • AITF has expanded from one to four universities, producing deployable solutions like detecting disinformation, supporting Sekolah Rakyat students, and identifying online gambling sites, with success measured by deliverable AI solutions and risk management.

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