At a glance

• 95% of university students use generative AI to study
• 9 million digital workers Indonesia still needs by 2030
• 97% of the teacher-training target for coding and AI is met (about 53,000 schools)
• 25% of schools actually teach coding and AI 

Indonesia trained teachers at about 53,000 schools to teach coding and AI. That is 97 percent of the target. Yet only about 25 percent of schools actually teach it.

That gap is the real story behind the Poland–Indonesia Innovation Forum: EdTech & AI, held on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, in Jakarta.

What is the Poland–Indonesia Innovation Forum?

The Poland–Indonesia Innovation Forum: EdTech & AI is a one-day business and technology forum held on 10 November 2026 at the KADIN Indonesia building in South Jakarta. It is organised by the Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH), the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Jakarta and KADIN Indonesia, as part of Poland Festival 2026. It brings Polish education-technology companies together with Indonesian schools, businesses and policymakers. No ticket price has been published.

Why does a Polish official say maths comes before AI?

Cezary Filipek, Head of the PAIH Jakarta Office, made an unfashionable argument. Before students learn AI, they need solid maths, reading and science. Those basics let a person question what they know and invent something new.

He backed it with a scene from a Polish factory. Picture a warehouse where whole zones run without a single person, just the steady hum of machines moving stock. It left him asking where humans fit when the work runs itself.

What does KADIN mean by “practical AI”?

Firlie H. Ganinduto, Head of Digital Ecosystem Agency at KADIN Indonesia, noted that about 80 percent of Indonesian users already interact with AI daily, citing a survey by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company. Then he changed the question. Not “how fast can we adopt AI?” but “does it make money?”

“Practical and applicable AI.”
  Firlie H. Ganinduto, Head of Digital Ecosystem Agency, KADIN Indonesia

His name for the answer: a small shop managing stock, a factory cutting waste, a farm improving its supply chain. Counting laptops in classrooms is not the measure. Better learning results are.

Which skills do kids need besides coding?

Abdallah Sadurdeen Khan, General Manager of Koding Next Indonesia, described a three-part formula. Technical skills cover coding, AI and data. Adaptive skills cover curiosity, resilience after failure and willingness to learn. Soft skills cover communication, teamwork and leadership.

He cited a review of 105 studies showing that coding can boost creative thinking and maths. But it does not automatically improve reading. Schools still need other ways to teach literacy.

Is coding really taught in Indonesian schools?

Since 2025, coding and AI have been offered in grades 5, 7 and 10, at about two class hours a week. It is still an elective. Schools can run it as a subject, fold it into other lessons or offer it as an extracurricular.

So why the 25 percent? Some trained teachers still do not feel confident teaching it. Principals decide whether to adopt it. About 23 percent of schools reportedly have no internet, and thousands face limited electricity. Same policy, very different classrooms.

What else is on the agenda?

Keynotes also come from Achmad Adhitya, Ph.D., Special Staff to the Vice President of Indonesia, and Dian Martin, Chair of the Indonesian AI Association. Panels include EdTech Poland Foundation, Global Transformation Partners and Veda Praxis. Then come MoU signings, a Polish EdTech showcase and B2B networking.

Polish Ambassador Barbara Szymanowska hopes for long-term partnership and investment, not only trade. KADIN is pushing for pilot projects between Polish EdTech firms and Indonesian schools.

The takeaway: training teachers is not the finish line. Getting AI into real classrooms is.