Of 28,218 live Indonesian websites, 2,970 (10.53%) block an AI crawler — the highest of all 43 countries. Education (14.9%) and attractions (14.4%) lead, and its news sites block at 15%.
Analysis of 41,818,678 live, content-validated websites worldwide · snapshot 2026-07-13 · by Piperic
Indonesia stands at the defensive end of the entire report. Of 28,218 live Indonesian sites, 10.53% block an AI crawler — the highest figure of all 43 countries, roughly three times the global norm and well clear of the next most cautious markets.
The Indonesian pattern is distinctive: education (14.92%) and attractions (14.39%) lead the sectoral table, alongside a defensive press (14.88%). It is one of the few webs where schools and learning sites, not just journalism or tourism, are among the most guarded against AI.
Yet Indonesian blocking is broad rather than precise in intent: only 1.2% of GPTBot-blockers accidentally lost ChatGPT Search — the second-lowest accidental rate in the report — meaning the high blocking is deliberate, not a firewall accident. With 84.6% of the web still silent, the caution comes from a large, decided defensive minority.
Share of sites blocking at least one AI crawler — lower = more open. Indonesia ranks #44 of 44 countries analysed.
Neighbours shown for context. Full ranking in the data download.
Every website falls into one of four groups, based on what it blocks and what it declares:
2,839 Indonesia websites block GPTBot to keep their content out of AI training. But 34 of them — 1.2% — ALSO block OAI-SearchBot, most likely by accident. Those sites have removed themselves from ChatGPT Search results entirely: protected from training, but invisible where their customers now search.
GPTBot (training) and OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT Search) are independent robots.txt tokens — blocking one does not block the other.
Share of Indonesia sites blocking each crawler in robots.txt.
Bytespider is ByteDance's (TikTok) crawler — it ignores robots.txt more often than the majors, yet it is among the most-blocked.
AI-blocking and llms.txt adoption across Indonesia's biggest website categories.
| Sector | Sites | Blocks AI | llms.txt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📰 News & media | 1,445 | 14.88% | 11.42% |
| business and finance | 7,535 | 7.52% | 4.17% |
| technology and computing | 4,031 | 10.89% | 4.84% |
| education | 1,790 | 14.92% | 4.02% |
| attractions | 1,709 | 14.39% | 3.74% |
| personal finance | 1,314 | 8.6% | 3.27% |
| politics | 1,111 | 12.42% | 6.48% |
| shopping | 990 | 13.74% | 6.97% |
| religion and spirituality | 940 | 13.19% | 5.43% |
| automotive | 868 | 10.48% | 6.8% |
| home and garden | 857 | 8.05% | 7.23% |
| style and fashion | 784 | 6.76% | 21.3% |
Indonesia news sites block AI 1.4× more often than the national average (14.88% vs 10.53%) — publishers are the most defensive segment of the web.
4,252 Indonesia online shops are open to AI crawlers (90.1% of 4,719). Their product content can already be read, compared and recommended by AI assistants — whether they know it or not.
Share of sites blocking at least one AI bot, by platform:
This is the baseline edition (2026-07-13). Piperic re-measures continuously; the next edition will show how fast Indonesia's web is closing — or opening.
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Sample: 28,218 live, content-validated websites (Indonesia, ccTLD-based assignment), out of 41,818,678 live domains analysed worldwide. “Live” = HTTP 200 and not parked. “Blocks AI” = the site's robots.txt disallows at least one of 14 known AI crawlers. llms.txt/ai.txt = the file exists at the site root. Snapshot: 2026-07-13 (frozen — numbers do not move with the live crawl). Full-web note: these figures cover the ENTIRE live web including the long tail; industry headlines like “25% of top sites block GPTBot” measure only large publishers — both are true, they measure different things. Country assignment via ccTLD under-counts .com/.org sites; treat US figures as indicative.
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