National Coordination Meeting ST2023: Momentum for Collaboration of Indonesian Agricultural Data
BPS is currently preparing for a major activity next year, the 2023 Agricultural Census (ST2023). #KamiST this time provides information from the National Coordination Meeting (Rakornas) ST2023 held by BPS today (13/10) in Sukoharjo. The Rakornas invited all Heads of BPS Provinces and Heads of Offices in charge of agriculture, plantations, forestry, fisheries, animal husbandry, and horticulture throughout Indonesia, as well as representatives of K/L/D.
This Rakornas is a momentum for collaboration between BPS and K/L/D for the implementation of ST2023. "ST2023 is carried out to support evidence-based policy in every policy cycle. ST2023 must be able to answer global and national agricultural issues," said the Main Secretary of BPS, Atqo Mardiyanto when opening the event.
ST2023 is also a momentum to create one agricultural data. "The hope is that there will be a national agricultural database, of course this data is accurate, consistent, disaggregated, and can be accessed by all parties. The hope is that it will be integrated since planning. BPS as the leading sector emphasizes the customer view, what its customers need," explained Atqo. Meanwhile, from the K/L/D side, the compilation of administrative products owned can meet statistical rules to complement the results of the data collection carried out by BPS.
Director General of Food Crops @kementerianpertanian Suwandi hopes, "How can ST2023 data describe the transformation of the agricultural sector towards a better direction because developed countries used to (rely on, ed) agriculture, then to the industrial and trade sectors."
Sujarwanto Dwiatmoko, Plt. Assistant for Economics and Development of the Head of the Energy and Mineral Resources Service of the Regional Secretary of Central Java Province (Jateng) @provjateng provides support for the implementation of ST2023. "I welcome and express my appreciation for the 2023 Agricultural Census which is here to complement and reduce the gap between the need for current data in the agricultural sector and the availability (of data, ed.) that already exists and refers to the availability of one-stop agricultural data in Indonesia," he said.
