Indonesia is leveraging its BRICS membership – secured in 2025 as the first Southeast Asian nation in the bloc – to attract agricultural technology investments and accelerate domestic farming modernization. The government has identified AI applications, precision farming, genomics, agricultural robotics, and smart farming systems as priority technology channels, with researchers gaining expanded access to laboratory and technical facilities nationwide to speed the transfer of science to production sites. The BRICS Agriculture Meeting 2026, held in Indore June 9-13, placed digital agriculture and AI on its multilateral agenda, providing formal backing for Indonesia’s technology transfer strategy.
