AI Ethics and Safety Perpres Reach Final Setneg Review With BSSN
Deputy Digital Minister Nezar Patria said on September 10, 2026 that Indonesia’s draft presidential regulations on a National AI Roadmap and on AI ethics and safety have finished cross-ministry coordination and are under final review at the State Secretariat before reaching the president’s desk, Bisnis.com reported. He argued the instruments will complete today’s patchwork—National AI Strategy 2020–2045, the 2023 ethics circular, personal-data law, and 2024 BSSN rules—while Indonesia still lacks a single EU-style AI Act.
Filed under Policy and dated September 20, 2026, this AI4Indonesia briefing treats the Kemensetneg stage as Indonesian regulatory-completion news distinct from the adaptive five-year roadmap narrative alone. Komdigi is coordinating policy while BSSN handles cybersecurity of public digital infrastructure, including administrative and technology audits of posture and architecture, and green-lights for national data-centre licensing. Nezar stressed innovation still outruns rules worldwide, so Indonesia needs fast responses to principal harms without pretending one statute freezes AI.
Why it matters: Indonesian ministries and vendors need clearer ethics and safety duties before agentic systems touch citizen data. Near-term Perpres signatures can set expectations—but only if BSSN audit capacity and appeal paths are funded.
What it means in practice
Indonesian CISOs and agency leads should map which AI systems would face BSSN technology audits; confirm how ethics annexes treat automated decisions; assign an owner for PDP-aligned data inventories; run time-boxed readiness reviews for education and scam-detection pilots; and prefer policies that keep human decision rights. Anchor the pipeline to the adaptive 2026–2029 roadmap and agentic human-control warnings.
Caveats come first. Setneg review is not a signed Perpres; timing can slip; and ethics texts need enforcement budgets. AI4Indonesia therefore presents the ethics-and-safety package as directional policy context until gazetted texts and BSSN guidance appear.
What to watch next: presidential signature dates; BSSN audit checklists for AI estates; and how AI Talent Factory cohorts feed compliance skills. Readers can continue on the AI4Indonesia homepage, or browse the Newsroom for additional briefings.
Bottom line: treat this update as orientation, not instruction. Indonesian AI governance is moving from circulars toward presidential instruments and remains early. Organizations that benefit most will prepare for audits, keep humans on consequential choices, and refuse to confuse a Setneg review with finished binding law.