Indonesia aligns electronic certificates and digital signatures with global standards
The Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs is aligning Indonesia’s electronic certification and digital signature framework with international standards to ease cross-border digital transactions and enhance trust in the national digital ecosystem.
“We continue to align Indonesia’s electronic certification and digital signature framework with widely recognised international standards, so that certificates issued under Indonesian law have legal and technical standards trusted by our regional partners,” said Deputy Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Nezar Patria at the Asia Public Key Infrastructure Consortium Special Steering Committee Meeting in Badung Regency, Bali, on Friday.
According to Nezar, this alignment is part of an effort to build a digital trust ecosystem that supports the interoperability of electronic services and transactions across countries. With a robust trust framework, Indonesia not only strengthens its digital sovereignty but also boosts recognition of its national electronic certificates at the regional and global levels.
“As a country with the largest digital economy in Southeast Asia and the fourth-largest population in the world, Indonesia has a significant interest in strengthening its digital trust ecosystem,” Nezar stated. He emphasised that the country’s vast digital activity must be supported by regulations, governance, and infrastructure that guarantee security, personal data protection, and legal certainty.
The government is deepening coordination between the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN), the Financial Services Authority (OJK), and the state-owned enterprise Peruri to ensure that policies, cyber resilience, financial sector oversight, and the root trust infrastructure function as a single system. Nezar also revealed that the government is preparing regulations to address post-quantum cryptography, AI-based identity verification, and cloud-based signing services, which are becoming new global standards.
“Indonesia’s ambition is not merely to be a country with the most sovereign digital infrastructure in Asia. Our ambition is to build a digital infrastructure so trusted that its sovereignty is never questioned,” Nezar concluded.