SECTOR STATISTICS IN INDONESIA: ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENT

Dr. Suryamin

Chief Statistician - BPS-Statistics Indonesia

Workshop on Shaping Subnational Statistical System to Meet SDG Requirement Paris, 17-18 May 2016

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Sector Statistics within National Statistical System

Sector Statistics: From Subnational System to National System

Existing Guidelines to Strengthening Sector Statistics

Interdependence of Sector Statistics within National Statistical System

Outline

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Map of Indonesia Total Area: 1.91 million sq. km Total Islands: 17,504 Population: 255 million No. of provinces : 34 No. of districts (2014): 514 No. of subdistricts (2014): 7024 Total BPS staff: 16 thousands

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• Why sectors statistics are important? Sector statistics can support the improvement of variety of official

statistics to fulfill development planning and monitoring • How to strengthen sector statistics to create new sources and

use of statistics? In Indonesia sectors statistics production is the responsibility of

ministries or government institutions (not the NSO’s) Strengthening sector statistics means strengthening ministries/govt’

institutions E.g. in Indonesia NSO have initiated to produce tourism statistics

through tourism survey – then this activity was responded by ministry of tourism to get a more detail information. By then NSO (BPS-Statistics Indonesia) signed MoU with ministry of tourism to build a capacity of producing tourism statistics in terms of methodology and other standards of producing statistics

Sector Statistics within National Statistical System

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Sector Statistics within National Statistical System

• Basic statistics BPS Statistics Indonesia

• Sector statistics Ministry/govt’ institutions

• Special Statistics Community

Act No. 16/1997 on Statistics

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Current practices in the production of sector statistics by BPS are mostly based on the compilation. - At BPS Head Quarter, sector statistics are compiled from ministries/central

government institutions - At BPS regional offices, sector statistics are mostly compiled directly from local

government working units because the system and mechanism of data flow has not been established in many regions

Statistical Integration between BPS and institution outside BPS in producing sectors statistics is also set up in the blue print “One Data for Sustainable Development”

Sector Statistics within National Statistical System

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Challenges in Producing Sector Statistics

Not all ministries and government institutions at central level as well as local governments are conducted data verification and consistency check

due to a lack of human resources capable for doing such activities.

BPS offices at all level must work hard in assessing data validity and reliability in which the process could take time for reconfirmation to data

provider especially in regions where a Data Forum has not been established

There is a challenge in data flow from region to central government (ministries/govt institutions) for some sectors statistics occurring since the

implementation of regional autonomy.

There has been a problem in administrative records related to sector statistics in many districts due to unavailability of data management

system and a limited capacity of human resources

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• Ideally, sector statistics are generated from subnational statistical system to feed national statistical system

• In order subnational system can feed national system, a mechanism of sector statistics flow from subnational system to national system should be built.

Sector Statistics: From Subnational System to National System

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BPS Head Quarter

Provincial Government

District/City Government

Central Government (Ministries/Govt’

Institutions)

Regional Development

Planning Agency

Local Government

Working Units

Regional Development

Planning Agency

Governor

Head of District

BPS Province Office

BPS District Office

Local Government

Working Units

Mechanism of Sector Statistics Flow from Subnational System to National System

• Sector statistics are managed by Data and Information Centre under Regional Development Planning Agency

• Data Forum is established within subnational system

Instruction Technical Coordination Administrative Coordination Data Request and Provision

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• Example of sector statistics generated/compiled from subnational level feeding into national system : Agriculture: wetland area, harvested area, etc. Transportation: Length of roads, total vehicles, etc. Education: No. of schools and class rooms, no. of teachers, no. of students,

etc. Health: No. of hospitals, No. of public health center Religious Affairs: No. of marriages, divorces and reconciliation Finance: No. of cooperatives Employment: No. of registered job seekers, no. of registered job vacancies

• These sector statistics are published in Statistical Yearbook of Indonesia produced by BPS Head Quarter

• At subnational level, a similar publication is also regularly produced: BPS at province level produce Province in Figures (Statistical Yearbook of

Province) BPS at district level produce District in Figures (Statistical Yearbook of District)

Example of Sectors Statistics from Subnational System Feeding into National System

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• BPS Head Quarter developed a manual to standardize sector statistics publication at subnational level (province and district level)

• Manual consists of several aspects such as all types of data and indicators including sector statistics to be produced at subnational level, presentation guidelines and

• BPS Head Quarter has design a standardized website for all regions to cover sector statistics presentation

• Advance Release Calendar guideline for statistical yearbook publication at both central and regional level presenting sector statistics

Existing Guidelines to Strengthening Sector Statistics

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• Interdependence can be between ministries/government institutions in producing sector statistics and between sector statistics themselves Example: Education sector statistics on total schools, total pupils, total teachers

at primary and secondary level of education are produced from 2 institutions namely Ministry of Education (for public and private schools) and Ministry of Religious Affairs (for Islamic schools)

GDP data is generated from a number of cross-sector statistical data for which several institutions contribute

• Interdependence can also occur between lower and higher level of governments in producing sector statistics. For example: statistics of road infrastructure

In order to be able to produce road infrastructure statistics at the province level, province government will rely on the availability of data of all districts.

Interdependence of Sector Statistics within National Statistical System

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• To ensure a good quality of sector statistics transferred from subnational system to national system, a mechanism of process of producing sector statistics which meet the criteria of quality statistics should be established.

• Guidelines for producing sector statistics need to be formulated to ensure that sector statistics produced by local governments have the same standards (concept and definition, period of data/time lag, coverage and other standards) among regions

• Despite a progress made in many regions in Indonesia in developing subnational system for producing sector statistics, the remaining question is: Can a huge variation in human resources capacity especially

among district governments in Indonesia accelerate the process of building mechanism enabling one to transfer sector statistics from subnational level to national level through a statistical system given the fact that Indonesia has a huge number of districts?

Conclusion

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