Publishing Intelligence Products for the Public: Design Principles for Indonesia’s Governance Model
Keywords:
Public Intelligence, Threat Assessmen, Information Governance, Transparency, SecrecyAbstract
Unclassified intelligence products published by intelligence organisations, often discussed in the literature as forms of public intelligence, have become more common over the last decade. These products are increasingly used not only to brief policy elites but also to build public resilience, counter disinformation, and strengthen the legitimacy of security measures that affect social and economic stability. This shift creates an information-governance dilemma in which disclosure must improve public preparedness while still protecting sources and methods, managing politicisation risks, and meeting legal duties of secrecy. Using a comparative qualitative document analysis, this paper examines 10 unclassified public documents released in 2021–2025 and the publication portals that host them, across four cases, the United States (Office of the Director of National Intelligence/ODNI), Australia (National Intelligence Community/NIC), Canada (Canadian Security Intelligence Service/CSIS), and the Netherlands (Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst/AIVD). The cases are chosen because their public products are produced by coordinator or community‑integrator entities, making them a closer analogue to Indonesia’s setting where Badan Intelijen Negara (BIN) holds a coordinating mandate. Cross‑case findings are synthesised into 12 design principles and translated into an auditable governance model for Indonesia, including a staged release workflow and an audit‑trail repository. The paper contributes (i) a comparative variable framework for analysing public intelligence products as governance artefacts, (ii) actionable design principles, and (iii) an implementable governance model that balances transparency, security, and accountability.
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