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AI in Indonesia's news media

24 verified, source-linked AI implementations across 19 news organizations, 2018–2025. Indonesia ranks 25th worldwide by documented cases.
East Asia and the Pacific2018–2025
Cases
24
Organizations
19
Active since
2018
Controversies
0
Compared with the global pattern, Talent Development & Upskilling accounts for 17% of cases here against 7% worldwide; and Content Licensing & Partnerships accounts for 12% of cases here against 5% worldwide.

What AI is used for — and how that differs

Indonesiaworldwide sharepp = percentage-point difference
Talent Development & Upskilling4+10pp
Content Licensing & Partnerships3+7pp
Editorial Workflow & Writing Assistance3-4pp
Content Production & Automation2-6pp
AI Avatars / Synthetic Presenters2+6pp
Research & Investigation2-1pp
Data Platform & Infrastructure2+8pp
Strategy, R&D & Innovation1+4pp
AI Ethics & Editorial Policy1+0pp

How far adoption has gone

1 – Access7
2 – Adoption10
3 – Proficiency7
4 – Ways of Working0
5 – Reorganizing0

Who is adopting

Funding: Own budget (15), Tech company (Google/GNI) (7), Media dev org (2)

Notable cases

2025Antara News Agency

Participant in Google AI article overviews pilot on Google News (announced Dec. 11, 2025) — Antara (Perum LKBN Antara), Indonesia's state news agency and the country's primary wire service, joins Google's AI article overviews pilot; builds on existing commercial relationships through the Google News Showcase scheme; deal delivers AI-powered article overviews on Google News pages, audio briefings, and real-time…

Content Licensing & Partnerships2 – Adoption
Google AI article overviews; Google Gemini; Google News Showcase APISource →

2020Narasi (Narasi TV)

'Mengukur Emosi Jokowi dengan Artificial Intelligence' (Measuring Jokowi's Emotions with AI, June 2020) — a data-journalism piece produced with Emotion Research Lab, using AI facial-expression/emotion recognition to analyse a 10-minute presidential speech. Reflects Narasi's deliberately non-generative, problem-first approach: pick the use case editorially, then apply AI to enrich investigative and data journalism…

Research & Investigation2 – Adoption
Emotion Research Lab AI facial-emotion recognitionSource →

2025Kompas Daily

Participant in Google AI article overviews pilot on Google News (announced Dec. 11, 2025) — Indonesia's newspaper of record and KG Media flagship joins Google's AI article overviews pilot; builds on existing commercial relationships through the Google News Showcase scheme; deal delivers AI-powered article overviews on Google News pages, audio briefings, and real-time information in the Gemini app; articles carry…

Content Licensing & Partnerships2 – Adoption
Google AI article overviews; Google Gemini; Google News Showcase APISource →

2025Tempo

Tempo Assistant" — AI-powered platform centralising five decades of archival content into a single Digital Asset Management system; uses AI to automate discovery, enrichment and content reuse; conversational tool ""Tempo Assistant"" lets users explore 50 years of journalism and surface actionable insights"; aims to reduce operational costs and open new revenue streams through asset licensing;" JournalismAI…

Data Platform & Infrastructure1 – Access
AI-powered Digital Asset Management; conversational AI (Tempo Assistant), Content DiscoveSource →

2020Mafindo (Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia)

Mafindo built 'Kalimasada', a WhatsApp anti-hoax chatbot (with WhatsApp) that lets the public check whether a message is a hoax. It uses AI and is integrated with Mafindo's verification database and the collaborative CekFakta.com platform (24 media outlets, 6,000+ fact-check articles).

Verification & Fact-Checking3 – Proficiency
'Kalimasada' AI WhatsApp fact-check chatbot (integrated with CekFakta.com database)Source →

2025Detik Network

Detik Network — Indonesia's largest news portal — runs a portfolio of about 12 AI-based products across its titles, including 'Detiktravel Escapes Uncovered', reflecting a product-led approach to embedding AI in its digital news and lifestyle offerings.

Strategy, R&D & Innovation3 – Proficiency
Portfolio of ~12 in-house AI products (editorial + lifestyle/commercial)Source →

Elsewhere in East Asia and the Pacific

Australia 28Cambodia 2China 75Hong Kong 6Japan 24Malaysia 11Mongolia 2Myanmar 1New Zealand 25Philippines 16Singapore 8
Data from J·Index, the Journalism AI Index — every case verified against a published source. See the methodological note for how cases are collected and coded. Updated 2026-07-23.