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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Indonesia in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 40 of 233 · rank 26 among country destinations

AI models put Indonesia in their top 10 recommendations in 6.8% of answers, rank 40 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as digital nomad: 59.4%, +52.6 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.5 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Indonesia in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

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By platform

PlatformScore
Claude8.3%
ChatGPT4.0%
Gemini8.7%
Grok6.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 56.8%
Claude Sonnet 59.5%
Claude Haiku 4.58.7%
GPT-5.6 Terra2.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna5.2%
Gemini 3.8 Flash8.7%
Grok 4.66.0%

Web search and effort

Indonesia · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Indonesia with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off6.5%7.0%
Normal vs lowest effort6.3%7.1%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Indonesia made the top 10 at least once for 3 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 20.0% of the repeats on average.

By kind of question

How much higher or lower the score is on questions that ask for each option, in percentage points against the overall score. Outlined cells are below the overall score.

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Digital NomadWorkcationExoticRelaxationAdventureCultural
Change+52.6+7.8+6.2+5.9−3.5−4.1

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
UnderratedWhere should I go?The plain questionOverrated
Change+7.8+0.5−5.3−6.8

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change+4.7−6.1−6.1

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleFamilySolo
Change+4.4−4.2−6.2

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightAt most two connections
Change−1.9−2.4

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change−2.0−6.2−6.5

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerWinterFallSpring
Change−2.8−4.0−4.5−6.5

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Bali138
Raja Ampat24
Indonesia13
Canggu, Bali9
Ubud8
Bali (Canggu/Ubud)5
Canggu4
North Sumatra4
Ubud, Bali4
Lake Toba3
Denpasar, Bali2
Flores2
Komodo National Park2
Bali (Denpasar/Canggu)1
Canggu and Seminyak1

Indonesia

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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