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Machines taking over bureaucracy raises eyebrows
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on Thursday the government would replace echelon III and IV officials with artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up the government’s work. (Shutterstock/-)
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s President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo prepares to replace government jobs with artificial intelligence (AI) to cut red tape amid a big push for investment and bureaucratic reform, observers have raised concerns about the availability of reliable and secure public data.
Jokowi said on Thursday the government would replace echelon III and IV officials with AI to speed up the government’s work. The legal umbrella for such a plan would be put forward as part of an omnibus bill that would eliminate inefficient regulations and bureaucracy.
“I have instructed ministers to replace echelon III and IV officials with AI [because] our bureaucracy will be faster with AI, but it will depend on the omnibus bill,” the President told business leaders attending the Kompas100 CEO Forum in Jakarta.
The omnibus bill, which will synchronize more than 70 overlapping laws and regulations deemed as unfavorable for investors, is expected to turn Indonesia into a more attractive investment destination as the government pushes efforts to boost sluggish economic growth.
Jokowi said the current echelon tiers would be reduced next year. There are currently 440,029 civil servants in echelon III, IV and V, representing 95 percent of the overall 460,067 government workforce, according to data from the National Civil Service Agency (BKN), as per June 2019.
The government will push to maximize the effectiveness of online single submission (OSS) and the one map policy as part of its early-stage adoption of AI in civil service work, said Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartato.
