Indonesia’s workforce is projected to grow strongly over the upcoming decade, but new research from the World Bank and Morgan Stanley finds the country is struggling to create jobs for its youth, and a short-term push for gross domestic product growth will not help much.
Digital Economy
Diah Angendari is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University and her dissertation examines the interplay between imaginaries, power, and interests in policymaking. She’s using the case study of AI in Indonesia to understand the factors that shape these policies.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital, together with Monash University Indonesia, is strengthening its collaboration on AI initiatives focused on public protection, particularly for women and children.
Communication and Digital Affairs Minister, Meutya Hafid, is collaborating with international strategic partners through the Indonesia-Australia bilateral cooperation program (Prospera) to accelerate national digital transformation.
Indonesia has an ambitious agenda to strengthen governance and regulation of cybersecurity, but lacks capacity. Legislation and regulation follow, rather than precede, action by the executive.
During their 2024 campaign and early days in office, President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka pledged to create 19 million new jobs. Yet, amid rising layoffs and persistent unemployment, the urgency to identify realistic, inclusive solutions is mounting.
Indonesia is creating jobs at an unprecedented rate. In 2024 alone, the country added 4.8 million new jobs, pushing the unemployment rate below 5 per cent as GDP growth rebounded to 5 per cent. While this appears groundbreaking on paper, national sentiment and statistics tell a different story.
Indonesia has inaugurated a National AI Centre of Excellence in Jakarta in partnership with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, NVIDIA and Cisco. The centre is designed to fast-track the adoption of AI and build digital talent to support Indonesia’s ambitions for its 2045 digital vision.
Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has identified the halal industry as a strategic pillar in Indonesia’s pursuit of becoming a developed nation. He underscored the importance of fostering independence across halal sectors such as Islamic finance, food and beverage, Muslim fashion, and Islamic media content.
Indonesia is working on a new regulation that will require e-commerce platforms to collect and pass on sellers’ sales income in a bid to tackle the “shadow economy”, its tax office said on Thursday, confirming a Reuters report earlier this week.
Indonesia has been putting its faith in innovative approaches to financing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the internationally agreed targets to end poverty, hunger and inequality, fight climate change and preserve the planet.
The Indonesian government is exploring public-private partnerships (PPP) to develop green data centres in the country, with the aim of enhancing its national sovereignty in artificial intelligence (AI) and data.
How exactly are these online food platforms reshaping Indonesian society? And what happens when we compare their impact across different cultural and economic contexts? A fascinating new study by Nadia Egalita, a PhD researcher at RMIT, offers insights into these questions through comparative ethnographic research conducted in Surabaya and Melbourne.
Indonesia has unveiled a new accelerator programme focused on artificial intelligence (AI) to bolster the growth of startups and advance the national digital economy. The initiative aims to empower local innovators and position Indonesia as a leading centre for AI development in Southeast Asia.
The popularity of a single song rapidly spreads to other countries. An analysis of hit songs in Thailand and Indonesia found that they are often streamed in other Asian nations, though less frequently in the U.S. and Europe.
Artificial intelligence has become an inseparable part of human life. This is the main driver in the digital revolution we are experiencing.
