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The National CSOs Position Paper for Indonesia’s AI Roadmap 2025 was officially launched during an in-person consolidation event at Kekini CoWorking Space in Jakarta on July 28, 2025. The Position Paper is intended to serve as the official strategic recommendation from the CSO Network to the National AI Roadmap Working Group under the Ministry of Digital Communications (KOMDIGI).
CSOs involved in the following issues jointly developed the position paper, including agreements and recommendations related to the AI Roadmap on several key issues:
1) Establishing meaningful participation from multi-stakeholders by supporting the growth of innovation while maintaining public interest protections in compliance with AI safeguards.
2) Incorporating legally binding regulations and enhancing self-compliance commitments through voluntary self-assessments, and providing redressal channels in the event of negligence.
3) Ensuring sovereignty in data governance by strengthening infrastructure and improving independent data management systems while ensuring that technological advancements do not negatively impact the public.
The following position paper was prepared by Parasurama Pamungkas, with contributions from the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), Centre for Digital Society (CfDS), Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ), ECPAT, ELSAM, EngageMedia, GIZ Asia, Humanis, ICT Watch, the Institute for the Study and Advocacy of Judicial Independence (LeIP), Perludem, Centre for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK), PurpleCode Collective, SAFEnet, Tempo, Trend Asia, Wikimedia Foundation, and Tifa Foundation.
The civil society consolidation process, led by ICT Watch, commenced with the First and Second Online Consolidation Meetings in June 2025, which reviewed and gathered preliminary input from the CSO network on the direction of civil society development. The input was then drafted for joint discussion at the Final Offline Consolidation Meeting on June 28, 2025, which refined and confirmed the CSO network’s final recommendations for the white paper. On August 6, 2025, representatives from EngageMedia and ICT Watch submitted this position paper to KOMDIGI representatives and received a positive response from them.
This consolidation represents a strategic opportunity in the process leading up to the Public Consultation on the National AI Roadmap White Paper, set for the final quarter of 2025, to ensure that the values of justice, diversity, and human rights protection are embedded in National AI policy from the earliest stages of its conception. The following appendix contains the complete text of the position paper.