Solutionism for the Many, Regulation for the Few: How Online Media Bundles the Policies on the Future of Work in Indonesia

The future of work (FoW), that is, how new technologies from automation to artificial intelligence affect the workplace, has become such a salient topic that its framing matters for the evolution of important policy areas from social protection to market and labor regulation. However, we still know relatively little about how problems arising from FoW are framed into policies. Indonesia is an interesting case study in this respect, as an informal coalition of government and tech companies pushes digitalization. We conjecture that this context also matters for the framing of significant policy reforms. Looking at the output of several news agencies, we find that, overall, positive sentiments are most salient, showing a solutionist mindset, that is, technology is a technocratic solution to big social problems. Government-related sources (Antara) follow this mindset, in contrast to some of the private sources. For the government, we only found one exception, which is the need to regulate e-commerce. Thus, the Indonesian case shows how a pro-technology government frames FoW and how this eventually includes and excludes important areas of policymaking, such as investment, regulation, and compensation. This gives us crucial insights also for other instances of policy change, where the field is somewhat complex and usually bundles together several policy areas. 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El futuro del trabajo (FdT), es decir, c & oacute;mo las nuevas tecnolog & iacute;as, desde la automatizaci & oacute;n hasta la inteligencia artificial, afectan el entorno laboral, se ha convertido en un tema tan relevante que su definici & oacute;n es crucial para la evoluci & oacute;n de importantes & aacute;reas pol & iacute;ticas, desde la protecci & oacute;n social hasta la regulaci & oacute;n del mercado y del trabajo. Sin embargo, a & uacute;n sabemos relativamente poco sobre c & oacute;mo los problemas derivados del FdT se integran en las pol & iacute;ticas. Indonesia es un caso de estudio interesante en este sentido, ya que una coalici & oacute;n informal entre el gobierno y las empresas tecnol & oacute;gicas impulsa la digitalizaci & oacute;n. Conjeturamos que este contexto tambi & eacute;n es relevante para la definici & oacute;n de reformas pol & iacute;ticas significativas. Al analizar la informaci & oacute;n de varias agencias de noticias, observamos que, en general, predominan las opiniones positivas, mostrando una mentalidad solucionista, es decir, que la tecnolog & iacute;a es una soluci & oacute;n tecnocr & aacute;tica a los grandes problemas sociales. Las fuentes relacionadas con el gobierno (Antara) siguen esta mentalidad, a diferencia de algunas fuentes privadas. En el caso del gobierno, solo encontramos una excepci & oacute;n: la necesidad de regular el comercio electr & oacute;nico. Por lo tanto, el caso indonesio muestra c & oacute;mo un gobierno pro-tecnolog & iacute;a define el FdT y c & oacute;mo esto eventualmente incluye y excluye & aacute;reas importantes de la formulaci & oacute;n de pol & iacute;ticas, como la inversi & oacute;n, la regulaci & oacute;n y la compensaci & oacute;n. Esto nos proporciona informaci & oacute;n crucial tambi & eacute;n para otros casos de cambio de pol & iacute;ticas, donde el campo es algo complejo y generalmente agrupa varias & aacute;reas de pol & iacute;ticas.