INDONESIA COUNTRY UPDATE REPORT
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Current and planned collection of agricultural statistics
1.1 Current collection
In Indonesia, collection of agricultural statistics has been a high priority in terms of statistical
development. The priority is due to a significant contribution of agricultural sector to
Indonesian economy. In 2009, agricultural sector contributed as much as 15.29% to the GDP
(at current price) and it is considered as the big two after the sectors manufacturing industry.
Another important fact is, in several provinces, agriculture is still the most dominant sector in
regional GDP (GRDP). It means agricultural sector is very important in either national or
regional economy. In addition, agricultural sector could create the highest job opportunities.
National Labour Survey 2008 reveals that around 38.52 percent (38.36 million people) of the
total 15 years of age and over who worked (111.95 million people) in 2008, worked in
agricultural sector.
In order to provide up to date and accurate data on agricultural statistics, BPS-Statistics
Indonesia has been collecting some essential agricultural indicators through its agricultural
surveys and censuses. Indicators covered in the surveys and censuses are ranged from
number of people and enterprises involve in agricultural activities, production, consumption,
trade, cost structures, socio-economic and farmer welfare, land utilization, prices, and so
forth. The agricultural surveys and censuses cover data collection on food crop, estate crop,
livestock, forestry, and fishery statistics. Some are summarized bellows:
Statistics/ Indicators
Coverage/
Scope
Volume of Food Crops Production
National
Volume of Vegetables and Fruit
Crops Production
National
Volume of Medicinal and
Ornamental Plants Production
Volume of Estate Crops Production
Stock of Estate Crops Production
Volume of Fishery Production
Value of Animal Slaughtered
Production
Number of Animal Slaughtered and
Meat Production
Number of Livestock
Number of Agricultural Machinery
Land Use:
Area of Wetland; Area of Dry land
Periodicity of
Data Collection
Available
Time Series
Quarterly
Monthly for seasonal
vegetables and fruits;
Quarterly for annual
vegetables and fruits
1998 to 2009
15 Province
Quarterly
1998 to 2009
National
National
National
Monthly
Monthly
Quarterly
1998 to 2009
1998 to 2009
1989 to 2006
National
Quarterly
1989 to 2006
National
Quarterly
1989 to 2006
National
National
Annually
Annually
1989 to 2009
1990 to 2008
National
Annually
1998 to 2008
1998 to 2009
1.2 Current and Planned Surveys
Addressing the demand, three surveys will be conducted: first, Paddy Field Mapping Survey
by Ministry of Agriculture (2010); second, Beef Cattle Census 2010 by Directorate General
of Livestock Ministry of Agriculture; third Carcass Survey for Ruminat Animals by
Directorate General of Livestock Ministry of Agriculture, fourth Cattle Identification and
Registration System by Directorate General of Livestock Ministry of Agriculture, and fifth,
the fishery survey for the preparation of producing Fishery Terms of Trade Index, in
collaboration with Department of Marine and Fishery.
a. 2010 Population Census
According to the 2000 Population Census the population of Indonesia was 205.1 millions
people in June 2000; out of these 121 millions or about 60 percent live on the island of
Java, the most densely populated island in Indonesia. Indonesia is the fourth largest
country in the world in terms of their population following China, India and the United
States. Based on this census the population density of Indonesia in 2000 was 103 people
per square kilometer.
During the 2010 Population Census it is estimated that the population of Indonesia would
be around 234.2 millions people who lives in about 65 millions households. The field
enumeration will require approximately 600,000 enumerators who would have
undertaken three days training before hand. The enumerators are also required to know
the enumeration areas assigned to them very well; it is therefore desirable that the
enumerators selected live in or very near the area of their assignment.
The 2010 Population Census questionnaire contains about 40 questions related to
information on housing conditions and facilities of the living quarters, as well as
infornation regarding the household and individual characteristics. The census
questionnaires are presently being developed taking into considerations of the relevant
United Nations recommendations as well as the suitability of the items collected to meet
local conditons.
The peak of the census operations will be during the month of May 2010 where field
enumeration will be taking place simultaneously overall the geographical area of
Indonesia. On 31st of May 2000, final checking will be carried out simultaneously for
any recent changes of the household composition due to vital events that have occured
during the month of May in the household including births, deaths and movement of the
members as well as canvasing the homeless and nomadic population. 31 May will be
designated as the Census Date of the 2010 Population Census of Indonesia.
The 2010 Population census has been designed to meet various data needs, including as
1. the basis for updating population data bases up to the lowest level of
administrative unit (desa/kelurahan);
2. valuable input in monitoring the progress for achieving the millenium
development goals (MDG);
3. the basis for preparing small area statistics;
4. basis for preparing population projection;
5. the basic data in developing sampling frame for various surveys conducted
between 2010 -2020;
6. the basis for developing population registers and population administration sytem.
b. Paddy Field Mapping Survey (Ministry of Agriculture, 2010-2014)
The survey that will be conducted in July-December 2010 is designed to create detail map
of paddy field using high-resolution satelite image. The survey will produce basic map of
paddy field that can be used for rice production estimation more accurately.
c. Beef Cattle Population Census (Ministry of Agriculture, 2010)
This census is conducted to collect complete cattle information such as population, cattle
composition either by sex or age. The census will be done in all provinces and all districts.
c. Carcass Survey for Ruminat Animals (Ministry of Agriculture 2010)
The objectives of this survey is to obtain information on: carcass weight, carcass
conversion to live weight, carcass conversion to meat, and edible offal to carcass.
d. Fishery Statistics 2010
As an archipelagic Country fishery data are very important for the economic indicator in
Indonesia. In 2009, BPS made collaboration with the Ministry of Marine Affairs and
Fisheries for making survey on Fisherman Exchange Number and re-counting data on Fish
Processing and Marketing, based on the data from Economic Census 2006.
Beside those data, MMAF conducted survey for Fisheries Data 2009 on production,
number of vessels, and area of aquaculture, number of fisherman and fish farmers,
fisherman household, fish consumption, etc.
c.1 Fisherman Exchange Number
The purpose of conducting this survey is to get indicator related with the welfare of
fisherman and fish farmers, to be combined with the income and Human Development
Index at coastal area. This comparison between spending and income, conducted
monthly throughout The Country.
c.2 Fish Processing and Marketing Data
Before 2009, the economic data on Fisheries mostly are on capture fisheries and
aquaculture. This study was doing by BPS collaboration with MMAF to adopt result of
Economic Census 2006 related with date on fish processing and marketing. The data
including the number of fish processing units, number of labours, production and
facilities.
c.3 Fisheries Statistics
Other than The Fisherman Exchange Number and the fish processing and marketing
data, the data are collected by MMAF through the local officials, such as production,
number of fisherman, fisherman household, number of vessels, area of aquaculture.
However for some data are collected from other institutions, such as export and import
data are supplied by The Ministry of Commerce.
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Main Characteristics of The Agricultural Statistical System
For the main characteristics of the agricultural statistical system please refer to the
attached updated matrix.
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Recent Changes in The Statistical Organization Relating to food and Agriculture
The national statistical system in Indonesia is centralized, but accommodate the
Socio-economic indicators needed in the decentralization era. Under the system, BPS (Badan
Pusat Statistik)-Statistics Indonesia, hereafter called as BPS, has been appointed as the main
agency to compile statistics in a very wide area of interests, such as agriculture, social,
economics and culture, to meet the need of the government and public. The Director General
of BPS is directly under and responsible to the President. The legal basis of BPS activities,
including for conducting agricultural censuses and surveys, was stated in:
Law No. 16 (1997) – covers the activities of statistics.
Government Regulation No. 51 (1999) – deals with the implementation of statistics.
President Decree No. 3 (2002) jo President Decree No. 103 (2003) – about position task,
function and organization of Non-Departmental Government Institutions.
Since March 2008, BPS-Statistics Indonesia has been reorganized. In the new organization
structure, Deputy Directorate General for Economic Statistics is divided into two deputies.
Deputy Directorate General for Distribution Statistics and Deputy Directorate General for
Production Statistics. Mainly, agricultural statistics, especially production statistics, are
conducted under the Deputy Directorate General for Production Statistics. Directorate of
Agricultural statistics is split into two directorates as well; Directorate of Food Crops,
Horticulture, and Estate Crops Statistics and Directorate of Livestock, Fishery, and Forestry
Statistics. Furthermore, the Directorate of Food Crops, Horticulture, and Estate Crops
Statistics is divided into three sub directorates as follows:
a. Sub Directorate of Food Crops Statistics
b. Sub Directorate of Horticulture Statistics
c. Sub Directorate of Estate Crops Statistics.
Whilst the Directorate of Livestock, Fishery, and Forestry Statistics is divided into three sub
directorates as follows:
a. Sub Directorate of Livestock Statistics
b. Sub Directorate of Fishery Statistics
c. Sub Directorate of Forestry Statistics.
Contact person for each directorates and sub directorates are listed below:
 Directorate of Food Crops, Horticulture, and Estate Crops Statistics
Ardief Achmad (e-mail: ardief@mailhost.bps.go.id)
 Sub Directorate of Food Crops Statistics:
Jainun Lumban Gaol (e-mail: jainun@mailhost.bps.go.id)
 Sub Directorate of Horticulture Statistics:
Sri Sayekti (e-mail: sayekti@mailhost.bps.go.id)
 Sub Directorate of Estate Crops Statistics:
Rita Setiyawati (e-mail: rita@mailhost.bps.go.id)
 Directorate of Livestock-Fishery-Forestry Statistics
Bambang Heru (e-mail: bambangh@mailhost.bps.go.id)
 Sub Directorate of Livestock Statistics:
Hasnizar Nasution (e-mail: lay@mailhost.bps.go.id)
 Sub Directorate of Fishery Statistics:
Sigit Purnomo (e-mail: sigit@mailhost.bps.go.id)
 Sub Directorate of Forestry Statistics:
Sri Wiyadi (e-mail: sriwi@mailhost.bps.go.id)
3 Availability Statistics on Farmer’s Income
Farmer welfare improvement has been a priority in economic development in the country. One
key in improving farmer quality of life is optimal price at farmer level that provides an optimal
profit either to farmer as the producers and the whole people in the country as the consumers.
In order to develop appropriate and effective plan in farmer welfare improvement, reliable and
up to date information on social economic condition of farm household and production cost
structure are very important. Complete information on cost structures provides reliable
foundation in determining the optimum price. In order to fulfil the requirement, BPS-Statistics
Indonesia has conducted a farm income survey in 2004 (SPP04), as part of Agricultural Census
2003.
The Farm Income Survey was conducted in order to gain accurate and up to date information
on the agricultural household income as well as the income structure by sub sector. The data is
urgent and essential to evaluate the development progress that has been planned and
implemented by the government. Finally, the evaluation result will be used in further
development planning especially the development of agricultural household welfare.
Farmer income survey (SPP04) was implemented with some goals as follows
a. Acquisition of agricultural household income as well as the income structure by sub sector.
b.Acquisition of data of land occupation, utilization, conversion, and mutation.
c. Acquisition of data of socio-economic condition of agricultural households.
Farmer Income Survey 2004 was conducted in June 2004 in all provinces in Indonesia.
Nationally, the total sample was 357,770 agricultural households or around 1.42 percent of the
total agricultural households. The survey produced some core indicators such as demography,
farmer’s level of education, main income source, socio-economic, capital, and constraints.
4 Recent Innovative Activity
a. Cattle Identification and Registration System (Ministry of Agriculture, 20102012)
The development of cattle identification and registration systems is aimed to
provide a way of monitoring the dynamic and structure of population every year.
The system will be develop starting this year, and with this system every cattle
should be registered and given an identification using barcode, so that it can be
identified easily. The identification card will contain country code, province
code, district code, race of cattle, id nunumber, owner id, date of birth, sex,
medical history, etc.
b. National Survey of Livestock and Marine/Fishery Terms of Trade
As shown in the Indonesia’s GDP, the contribution on value-added of agricultural
sector is expected still to be significant high. However, the lab our occupation in
this sector still relatively higher than that, or the productivity is low. On another
hand, the opposite trend is showed in secondary and tertiary sectors. As a result,
more agricultural statistic indicators should be created to fulfil adequate analysis.
The National Survey of Livestock and Marine/Fishery Terms of Trade are aimed
to address the issue.
5 Structure of the Statistical System, Institution, and Responsibilities
As mention in 2, BPS is a Non-Departmental Government Institution under the directives of
and directly responsible to the President. Under the head-office in Jakarta, there are 33 BPS
Provinces, and there are some Regional/Municipalities in each province. Up to 2010, there are
33 provincial offices and 497 Regency/Municipalities offices. On the other hand, in line with
decentralization era, the number of regency/municipality government grew has been growing
rapidly.
6 Funding Source of the Different Institution Dealing With Agricultural
Statistics
6.1 National
Main source of fund to support agricultural statistics is supplied by central government
budget via APBN (Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Negara) or National Budget that can
be divided into two kinds. First, budget from APBN straight come to BPS budget, and the
budget from APBN via other government institutions. In this case, other government
institution, as users, asks a statistical indicator or data and BPS does surveys in account of
those institution budgets.
6.2 External
Sometime there is budget from international organization, but not significant in terms of
amount and frequency.
7 Availability of Agricultural Statistics Database
The availability of agricultural statistics database may be more than to produce the publication
as shown at table above. However, some of them still spread in the database at other
government institutions. That is why, some collaboration among government institutions are
needed through budget sharing.
Ministry of Agriculture also has a database for agricultural data, which is published through
http://database.deptan.go.id/bdsp
8 Adoptions of Information Technology and Internet Access
BPS has started to expanse of applying some features of information technology in terms of
statistical activities. However, some constraints remain exist. As an archipelago country,
needed a huge investment for information technology investment, and this is need continuously
development. The number of provincial and regency offices make the network of technological
information cannot be developed instantly.
MOA has also started to expanse of applying such information technology mentioned above to
accelerate the statistical report from provincial and regency offices by using E-Form.
9 Current Disseminations Strategies of Agricultural Statistics
Current dissemination of agricultural statistics still applying the combination strategies,
traditionally and via BPS website. Traditionally strategies are dissemination direct to the user,
government institution and public using hard-copy publication (some of them also using media
CD = compact disk). Periodically, BPS also make press conference for several statistics,
including agricultural statistics. Finally, BPS also disseminates the statistical data via website:
http://www.bps.go.id.
MOA also published a Statistical Book periodically and disseminates the statistical data via
website: http://www.deptan.go.id. Fishery statistics also can be reach at the
http://www.dkp.go.id