JAKARTA (Reuters): Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday ordered government agencies to remove two ranks of public servants in 2020 and replace their roles with artificial intelligence, in a bid to cut red tape hampering investment.
Widodo made the remarks in a room full of leaders of big companies as he laid out a second-term agenda aimed at changing the structure of South-East Asia's largest economy by reducing its reliance on natural resources.
Such transformation would require foreign investment and Widodo said he would improve the business climate by fixing dozens of overlapping rules and cutting red tape. "I have ordered my minister to replace them with AI. Our bureaucracy will be faster with AI," he said, referring to artificial intelligence. However, he added this plan would need parliamentary approval.
The government will hand over to parliament a bill on tax reforms next month and another bill addressing labour issues, Widodo said, a timeline Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati made public on Wednesday.
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