Indonesian IT job posts mention AI 28x less than global remote roles - the data

I run a job aggregator focused on Indonesian and global remote work. In May 2026 I pulled two datasets — 1,039 Indonesian IT listings (JobStreet Indonesia + Loker.id) and a global remote pool of 2,517 listings — and scanned how often each mentions AI in the job title.

The gap was bigger than I expected.

The 28x gap

• Global remote: 8.6% of listings (216 of 2,517) carried an AI signal in the title.
• Indonesian IT: 0.3% (3 of 1,039).

Same method both sides — a title-keyword scan — so it's apples-to-apples. That's roughly a 28x difference in how visibly AI shows up in what employers advertise.

Why it matters

If you're hiring in Indonesia, the signal your competitors abroad are sending — "we want people who work with AI" — is almost absent locally. If you're a developer in Indonesia targeting remote roles, the global market is already pricing AI fluency into the title of the job, not just the body.

This is not "Indonesia is behind." Title text is a lagging, noisy proxy. But a 28x gap in what gets advertised is a real distribution difference worth knowing before you write your next JD or your next CV.

Caveats (this isn't a peer-reviewed study)

• Not a random sample, no confidence intervals. Classification was a single pass over 199 enriched listings.
• Title-level scan only — a role can use AI heavily without saying so in the title.
• Snapshot in time: May 2026.

Full methodology and every limitation: Data Notes

Free datasets (CSV, no signup): Indonesian IT — replicated · Global remote — preview

Full write-up with all six findings: Indonesia IT vs Global Remote — 6 findings