BPS-Statistics Indonesia
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17-19 November 2010, Moscow, Russian Federation
(KECUK) SUHARIYANTO
Director of Analysis and Development of Statistics, BPS
email: kecuk@bps.go.id
Centralized → representative offices in 33 Provinces, 465
districts/municipalities involving 14,000 employees
BPS has its own Statistical Education and Training Center,
also Institute of Statistics (1100 students, started in 1958)
BPS publishes various statistics → BPS Publication
Catalogue & BPS homepage (metadata, glossary,
questionnaire, key statistics, publications)
BPS-Statistics Indonesia has continuously strengthened its
capacity→ the STATCAP-CERDAS Program starting 2010
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Type of Data
Periodicity
Time lag
Inflation
Monthly
1st day of the following month.
Foreign Trade (Export-Import)
Monthly
One month
Worker’s Wages
Monthly
1st day of the following month.
Farmer’s term of trade
Monthly
One month
Food Prices
Monthly
1st day of the following month.
Wholesale Price Index
Monthly
One month
Tourism
Monthly
One month
Transportation
Monthly
One month
GDP
Quarterly
35 days
Business and Consumer
Confidence Indices (BCCI)
Quarterly
35 days
Manufacturing Production Index
Quarterly
30 days
Food Crops Production
Once in 4 months
Forecasting for current year
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Flow of Communication and Dissemination of Short-Term Official Statistics in BPS
B.Public Relations & LA
• Identity target audience
• Organize training to journalists
& press conference
DG/Deputies
Draft
Approval
Government
(Executive
Report)
2 reports
16.00 pm
Subject Matters
• Prepare
content of the
report
Press
Conference
(Press release)
Dir.Stat.Dissemination
• Layout final report
Printing Section
• Press release
• Executive
Report
Dir.Analysis & D.Stat
• Executive summary
Final
reports
Dir. Stat.
Information
System
Note: The reports are evaluated at least once a month
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upload
for
public
BPS Website
Free of charge
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Communication
Data
Target audiences
vehicles
presentations
Public, Researchers, Website
Press releases:
NGOs
Table and Graphs
BPS Headquarters website:
www.bps.go.id
Press
conferences
Press releases:
Table and Graphs
BPS Provincial website: for
example http://bali.bps.go.id
Between 1-6 pages for each
topics
Executive
summary
Title: Monthly Report of
Socio Economic Data
Journalists
Website
Government
Publication
(President, Ministers, (Executive
Parliament)
report)
Internal BPS
Website and
Press releases:
internal website Table and Graphs
Notes
The complete report is
uploaded in the web one day
after cabinet meeting
www.bps.go.id
http://community.bps.go.id
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• Lots of positive and relatively
negative views
• Needs to work closely with its
key users
• Many do not use meta data &
not understandable metadata
• The website needs improving
• BPS is not meeting needs for
time series
• Website: 81% look for Data
and Figures,
• 19% are dissatisfied with the
downloading possibilities
• Accessibility : 61% of users
satisfied (on average);
highest ranked area is
National accounts (96% of
satisfied users)
Broad
findings:
Statistics
mainly
used:
Dissemination
aspects:
Statistical
Quality
Aspects:
• Ministers : Income, Exp.,
Social ,Labor stat. and NA
• Academic and researchers :
Income, Exp., Social, Labor
and Prices
• Internal users use all statistics
• Media : Foreign Trade and
National Accounts
• 73% of respondents see
BPS’ statistics as a good
reflection of the situation
• Users don’t feel
listened/consulted
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Future Improvement (based
on user satisfaction survey)
Establish and Maintain BPS
Credibility
• Build a website more user
friendly,
• Extend the range of statistics
available from the website,
• The website should have time
series facilities and report
generator capacities,
• Communication with the users
has to be improved (give
more information on
methodology, revisions, and
better publication timetable)
• Improving timeliness without a
significant loss in accuracy 
some changes to operational
procedures or methodological
techniques is required.
• All of statistics activities have
to be based on professional
practices (UN Fundamental
Principles of Official Statistics)
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Thank You
TERIMA KASIH
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