Topic: 2025 – Artificial Intelligence and Resource Consumption
Country: Indonesia
Delegate Name: Sophia Schafer
Country: Indonesia
Delegate: Sophia Schafer
School: Williamston High School
Committee: UNEP
Topic: AI and Resource Consumption
The country of Indonesia recognizes that Artificial Intelligence is very important and beneficial to the growth of our country. Indonesia believes that Artificial Intelligence is the future, and we do not want to be left behind, while other countries are moving forward towards the future. We also recognize that whilst AI is a very important technology, we also realize its power and that it needs to be controlled and not used for the wrong reasons. Moving forward, Indonesia wants to work with other countries on the development of AI, but it needs to be regulated, safe, ethical, and inclusive, especially for the developing countries that need AI moving forward to help their countries grow. Indonesia views AI as essential for our national priorities, such as digital administration, disaster response, and maritime security. However, Indonesia is also concerned about other factors, such as algorithmic discrimination, privacy violations, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, labor displacement, and the global concentration of AI capabilities in a small number of technologically dominant countries. Without international cooperation, the rapid advancement of AI threatens to deepen inequalities between developed and developing nations, which is a terrible future that we should avoid.
In the past, Indonesia has adopted many strategies regarding the use and safety of AI, such as our Strategi Nasional Kecerdasan Artifisial (Stranas KA), which was launched in 2020. This strategy includes moral pillars like ethics and policy, AI infrastructure and data ecosystems, talent development, and AI research. This strategy is a roadmap for Indonesia for 2020-2045 and it highlights the main idea that Indonesia will be an innovation-based economy by the year 2045. Although, according to analysis, the strategy is not legally binding in Indonesia, it is much more like a policy roadmap than a law. Indonesia also has other laws and regulations regarding the use of AI such as laws regarding data protection. Indonesia aims to maximize AI’s benefits while minimizing risks, such as algorithmic bias, misuse, and data risk, through its national strategies, along with increasing AI capacity and talent to help with agricultural, health, and governance reforms.
Moving forward, Indonesia wants to work with other countries to improve the use and development of AI, while also placing regulations to reduce its misuse. Indonesia proposes an international AI ethics and safety framework, enhancing transparency, accountability, and protection of human rights, with clear guidelines for civilian and commercial use. Indonesia also proposes capacity-building programs for developing nations, including technical training, data-sharing agreements, and access to computing resources to prevent an AI divide. We should also create support for AI in public good applications such as early disaster-warning systems, smart agriculture, healthcare diagnostics, and inclusive education. Indonesia recognizes the importance of AI and how we should be developing it because it is a very resourceful tool for the future, but we should also place regulations on it to reduce misuse and the divide between technologically advanced and developing countries. Indonesia is willing to work with many countries on this subject such as the United States, China, Japan, and India.
