Indonesia focuses AI rules on adoption amid calls for slower development
Deputy minister Nezar Patria said technology companies need to rethink their strategies, rather than stop automation.
Indonesia is preparing artificial intelligence regulations focused on how sectors adopt the technology, Deputy Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Nezar Patria said. Speaking in Jakarta on 12 October 2026, he said the government's focus was adoption, not managing a slowdown in AI development.
At the Digital Infrastructure Summit 2026, Nezar described concerns about AI as part of the global industry's development. He identified business models as a recurring issue in discussions, saying companies needed to find more suitable models and were questioning whether data centre construction had achieved balanced economies of scale.
Nezar said calls to slow AI's progress did not mean bringing automation to a halt. In his view, technology companies instead needed to revise their strategies.
CNBC Indonesia reported that Anthropic chief Dario Amodei had urged slower AI development in an essay, arguing that serious risks required action from companies and governments. It said OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk had supported his remarks, while a researcher who had left Anthropic had voiced similar concerns.
