The UNESCO Office in Jakarta covers two dimensions:
- As a Cluster Office, it represents UNESCO in Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Timor Leste in all UNESCO fields of competence: Education, Culture, Social and Human Sciences, Communication and Information and Natural Sciences.
- As a Regional Bureau for Science, it covers Asia and the Pacific Region, through its programmes in Freshwater, Oceans, Basic and Engineering Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Coastal zones and Small Islands.