Komdigi Drafts Presidential Rules on AI Roadmap and Ethics
Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs is drafting a Presidential Regulation on the 2026–2029 National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap and a separate Presidential Regulation on AI Ethics, GovInsider reported on September 29, 2026. Komdigi’s director of AI and new technology ecosystems, Said Mirza Pahlevi, said the roadmap text should set direction, programmes and divided responsibilities—including a National AI Coordination Task Force—while the ethics regulation would ground safe development, deployment and use across government and the wider ecosystem.
Filed under Policy and dated September 29, 2026, this AI4Indonesia briefing treats the twin Perpres drafts as Indonesian public-sector AI governance news distinct from yesterday’s Telkom NeutraDC–Danantara 1 GW data-centre map. Pahlevi stressed that agencies must adapt guidance by sector, keep human oversight when services affect rights or access, and close the gap between fast model releases and civil-service readiness; Komdigi’s AI Talent Factory now partners with four universities to build practitioners who can design, test and own government solutions.
Why it matters: Indonesian ministries already pilot chatbots and document tools without a shared risk playbook. Binding roadmap and ethics rules can discipline adoption—but only if sandboxes, data quality and human escalation paths are funded before mandates bite.
What it means in practice
Indonesian CIO and transformation leads should inventory which public-service AI tools lack named owners; demand owners for Perpres comment and sandbox participation; assign an owner for AI Talent Factory pipeline seats; run time-boxed readiness reviews on data and logging; and prefer designs that keep humans on benefit or identity decisions. Place the drafts beside NeutraDC’s 1 GW AI data-centre outline and officials’ agentic-AI human-control warning.
Caveats come first. Drafting is not a signed Perpres; sector guidance is still being prepared; and talent programmes do not equal production SLAs. AI4Indonesia therefore presents the Komdigi plan as directional policy context until official gazette texts appear.
What to watch next: public consultation windows; task-force membership; and how ethics rules treat generative tools in citizen-facing workflows. 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 policy is moving from white papers toward presidential regulations and remains early. Organizations that benefit most will staff governance roles now, keep humans on high-stakes outputs, and refuse to confuse a draft roadmap with finished law.