Jakarta, May 6 -- Indonesia is currently standing at a critical crossroads in determining the direction of its technological future.

Amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) globally, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs is preparing a national AI road map that is scheduled to be completed in three months.

Though this initiative could be praised as an effort to build a strategic foundation, there are concerns that cannot be ignored.

In particular, the road map should not become a normative document that solely focuses on literacy, regulation, and ethics, but forgets the main core that would drive this technology-industrialization and commercialization.

Without focusing on building a concrete demand-suppl...