Indonesia aims to lure foreign investment with AI roadmap

Indonesia will finish work next month on its first national strategy on artificial intelligence in a bid to attract foreign investment, an official said, as Southeast Asia’s largest economy looks to join the global AI and chip-making race.

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The move follows neighbouring Malaysia's push to establish itself as a regional hub for Al development, securing billions of dollars from global tech firms seeking to build critical infrastructure to meet growing demand for cloud and Al services.

Indonesia's AI roadmap will be the first comprehensive AI document in the country, the fourth largest in the world by population, since a smaller ethics guideline in 2023, Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Nezar Patria told Reuters in an interview at his office on Monday.

"The roadmap will help AI developers navigate (Indonesia's market), including on infrastructure and also on computational clusters," he said, adding that it would detail AI adoption in sectors such as health and agriculture.