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        "msgid": "from-ai-enabled-to-ai-first-indonesian-companies-urged-to-prepare-for-the-agentic-enterprise-era-1781340929",
        "date": "2026-06-13 15:01:25",
        "title": "From AI-Enabled to AI-First: Indonesian Companies Urged to Prepare for the Agentic Enterprise Era",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Technology",
        "summary": "Indonesian firms are being urged to shift from merely using artificial intelligence as a tool to making it the core of their operations ahead of the Agentic AI era. Industry leaders and government officials at a Jakarta forum stressed that competitive advantage will depend on building robust data foundations and organisational readiness. The government is also promoting national AI sovereignty and a framework to strengthen the local ecosystem.",
        "content": "<p>Indonesian companies are being urged to immediately transform from\nbeing merely AI-enabled to becoming AI-first, where artificial\nintelligence forms the core of business operations. This step is\nconsidered crucial to face a new era known as Agentic AI, where AI\nagents are capable of executing tasks, making decisions, and actively\ncollaborating with humans. The idea emerged at the AI Leadership\nExchange 2026 with the theme \u2018The Agentic Leap: Empowering Indonesia\u2019s\nDigital Leadership and Winning the Enterprise AI Race\u2019 in Jakarta on\nThursday. The event, a collaboration between IBM Indonesia and CIO\nInsight Indonesia, brought together Indonesian corporate technology\nleaders, industry players, and regulators to discuss strategies for\noptimising AI utilisation to boost organisational competitiveness and\nwin the business race in the digital era. Deputy Minister of\nCommunication and Digital Affairs, Nezar Patria, said Indonesia must\nbuild national capacity to develop AI technology independently.\nAccording to him, the government is currently promoting the\nstrengthening of the AI ecosystem through the 5A framework, which\nincludes Availability, Affordability, Awareness, Ability, and Agency.\n\u2018The goal is for organisations in Indonesia to gain maximum benefit from\nthe utilisation of AI,\u2019 he stated. At the same event, Hans A.T. Dekkers\nassessed that a gap is beginning to appear between companies that use AI\nas a support tool and those that make AI the main foundation of business\noperations. According to Hans, the first group generally uses AI to\nimprove work efficiency. Meanwhile, the second group uses AI to redesign\nbusiness processes, accelerate decision-making, and build new, more\nadaptive operational models. \u2018These two approaches produce very\ndifferent impacts. Companies that make AI the core of their operations\nwill have a much greater competitive advantage,\u2019 he said. Hans explained\nthat the world is now entering the Agentic AI era. While the Generative\nAI wave introduced new machine capabilities to humans, Agentic AI\npresents digital agents capable of working more independently and\nproactively. This view was reinforced by Jerry Zhu, who assessed that\nthe future of business is no longer just about using AI as a support\nactivity. \u2018The winning companies are those that prioritise AI, or are\nAI-first, not just AI-enabled,\u2019 he said. Despite optimism about AI\ntechnology development, the speakers cautioned that successful AI\nimplementation does not solely depend on technological sophistication.\nHans and Jerry assessed that the biggest obstacle many organisations\nstill face is data issues. In various companies, data remains scattered\nacross many unintegrated systems, making it difficult for AI to obtain\nthe context needed to produce accurate decisions. Therefore, corporate\nattention needs to be directed towards building a strong data foundation\nand governance so that AI implementation can run sustainably and on a\nlarge scale. In a panel session titled \u2018From AI Investment to ROI:\nBuilding the Foundations for Agentic AI\u2019, Setiaji reminded companies not\nto adopt AI merely because of trends or the fear of missing out\nphenomenon. According to him, AI investment must have a clear business\npurpose to deliver measurable added value. Meanwhile, Toto Prasetio\nemphasised that AI transformation is not merely a technology issue.\nImplementation success is also significantly determined by human\nresource readiness and organisational culture. On the other hand,\nPatrick Bruinsma encouraged companies to stop partial or project-based\nAI implementation approaches. He suggested organisations build a single,\nrobust operational foundation so that various future AI initiatives can\nbe deployed more quickly, safely, and efficiently. The discussion also\ntouched on aspects of national technological sovereignty. Ricardo Irwan\nRei stated that Indonesia needs to start thinking about developing its\nown AI models, as several other countries have done. According to him,\nthis step is important to strengthen national competitiveness while\nsupporting long-term technological independence. \u2018Ultimately, our goal\nis to move towards sovereignty or technological sovereignty,\u2019 he said.\nThe banking sector was cited as one of the industries that will undergo\nsignificant transformation through AI utilisation. In a discussion,\nindustry players assessed that AI will drive the birth of increasingly\nautonomous operations in the future. Both Rico Usthavia Frans and\nJayaprawirya Diah assessed that AI will become a strategic capability\ndetermining the banking industry\u2019s future competitiveness. However, AI\nadoption in the financial industry must still consider aspects of data\nsecurity, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience, meaning its\nimplementation cannot be rushed. Throughout the forum, the speakers\nagreed that access to the latest AI technology is no longer the main\nfactor determining victory in business competition. The advantage will\ninstead be determined by an organisation\u2019s ability to integrate AI into\nbusiness processes, work culture, governance, and daily decision-making.\nIn other words, the biggest challenge today is no longer building AI,\nbut rather building organisations that are ready to work side by side\nwith AI.<\/p>",
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