A freshly inked pact to wire Indonesia’s cold chain with AI-enabled sensors is more than an infrastructure story. If built on open standards, it could be the archipelago’s compliance on-ramp for the FDA’s traceability rule, Europe’s deforestation law and retail’s shift to 2D barcodes—while cutting post-harvest losses and unlocking cheaper finance.
On 22 September 2025, South Korea’s Willog and Indonesia’s cold-chain industry group ICCA/ARPI announced a memorandum of understanding to roll out AIoT “K-logistics” monitoring across the country’s temperature-controlled network—reefers, rooms and routes. The release talks of modernising the sector and aligning with Jakarta’s National Logistics Ecosystem goals.
