Denpasar
- The movement of the young pendet dancers welcomed the arrival of the
Director General of Population and Civil Registration of the Ministry of
Home Affairs, Zudan Arif, and Deputy for Social Statistics BPS, Margo
Yuwono. The presence of the two important population figures was
welcomed by the Chair of the Statistical Society Forum (FMS), Bustanul
Arifin in the FMS Workshop entitled "Towards One Population Data",
afternoon (10/7). Attended by FMS members in the population working
group, all District / City BPS Heads in the Bali Province, Bali
Provincial Dukcapil staff, as well as a number of related institutions,
the workshop presented systematic exposure by data owners, represented
by Zudan and Margo, as well as data users represented by the Head of
Demography Institute of the Faculty of Economics, University of
Indonesia, Turro Selrits Wongkaren and economic development researcher
Udayana University, IGW Murjana Yasa.
Head
of the BPS Province of Bali, Adi Nugroho, in his speech said that Bali
Province was fortunate to be chosen as one of the historical actors in
population data collection. Data from the 2020 Population Census
(SP2020) that uses the Dukcapil database according to him will be shared
property, government and society. It is different from the opinion of
the community so far that they assume that population data belongs to
the government alone. "If each has good data, it would be better if you
have one good data used together. Let's invite the community to conduct
an online census, so they know what the benefits and importance of their
data are," he said .
Adi's
opinion was echoed by Zudan. He called for the discrepancy of BPS and
Dukcapil data at the national level to be increasingly minimal. The
remaining difference reached 170 thousand entries in 2018 when compared
with BPS population projection data. He also assured that the Single
Identity Number was a solution to avoid the existence of
multiple-population and prolonged polemics in the community. "Many other
institutions have used Dukcapil data. Police, Bappeda, Immigration, and
so on. Even for zoning, Dukcapil data is used as one of the basic
determinations," he assured. He also claimed that he would provide full
support to BPS by providing access to the Dukcapil data as soon as the
relevant Presidential regulation was signed.
"The
perpetrators of history are not us sir, but BPS and Dukcapil," said
Bustanul Arifin when giving a conclusion to close the workshop. He
thanked the support of the Bali Provincial Government, especially
Jembrana Regency, which he said was extraordinary. Previously, (9/7),
FMS had the opportunity to visit Sangkaragung Village, one of the
locations for the SP2020 Net Performance.
