Indonesia Plans a National AI Coordination Task Force and Three Risk Tiers in Draft Presidential Rules
Indonesia will set up a National Artificial Intelligence Coordination Task Force to make sure its coming AI regulations work in practice, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi) said on October 21, according to ANTARA. Irma Handayani, who leads Komdigi’s team on AI roadmap, ethics, governance and oversight regulation, told a panel at the Peruri Digital Summit 2026 in Jakarta that the body is written into the draft presidential regulation on the National AI Roadmap.
Two draft presidential regulations are ready, one on the roadmap and one on AI ethics. Irma said the roadmap is meant to drive innovation through talent, research, and infrastructure and data, while the ethics rule is meant to keep deployment responsible. The task force will include ministries and agencies but also businesses, industry, academics, associations, civil society groups and the media. She pointed to Malaysia’s National AI Office as an example of a dedicated body.
The ethics draft takes a risk-based approach with three categories rather than the European Union’s four: low, high and unacceptable. Systems that use specific personal data count as high risk, systems that could threaten security and safety are unacceptable, and public-service chatbots that simply provide information are low risk. Each ministry and agency will set its own sector risk standards and special requirements for high-risk uses. The rule carries no criminal sanctions, but it encourages sectors to self-assess their AI maturity and requires incident reporting channels for users who suffer harm.
What it means in practice
The task force adds an implementation layer to drafts covered earlier in Komdigi’s presidential rules on the AI roadmap and ethics and the ethics and safety Perpres reaching final State Secretariat review. Sector-by-sector risk standards also build on the deputy minister’s plan for sector-specific rules in health, education and finance.
For companies, the practical question is which ministry will regulate which product. A health AI provider and an agritech start-up may face different high-risk requirements, and businesses serving several sectors could have to meet more than one standard. At the same summit, Komdigi’s director general of digital government technology, Mira Tayyiba, said Indonesia ranks 46th of 195 countries in the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2025 and must not become merely a market for other countries’ AI.
What to watch: when the President signs the two regulations, how quickly the task force is convened once they take effect, and which ministries publish the first sector risk standards and high-risk requirements.