Jakarta, March 6 -- Indonesia is emerging as one of Southeast Asia's largest digital economy markets with favourable conditions for artificial intelligence (AI) development, though experts said the country remains at an early adoption stage and its core AI research and development capacity still lags behind several regional peers, including Vietnam.
At a forum on innovation, held within the framework of the World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development 2026 (WED 2026) event taking place in Jakarta from March 3-5, experts noted that technological innovation can only generate tangible impact when it is deployed at scale and supported by a sufficiently strong engineering workforce.
Speaking to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'s corresponden...