BPS Lampung Guards EPSS Plenary Meeting, Realizing Solid One Data Indonesia

Bandar Lampung — The fragmentation of sectoral databases among government agencies often culminates in overlapping policy-making and the waste of development budgets that should be allocated for public welfare programs. Answering this harmonization challenge, BPS Lampung Province held a Plenary Meeting on the Evaluation of Sectoral Statistics Implementation (EPSS) on Thursday, September 3, 2026. The Head of BPS Lampung Province directly led this highly essential coordination forum, bringing together data planners from various Regional Apparatus Organizations (OPD) to align methodology, variable standardization, and information system interoperability so that all regional data pieces can smoothly integrate into the One Data Indonesia portal. This dynamic discussion sharply dissected past data governance weaknesses, formulating a revolutionary improvement roadmap so that the regional government no longer experiences confusion due to dual figures on the same performance indicators.

In this plenary full of analytical thought exchanges, BPS leadership executed its role as a sectoral statistics coach highly elegantly, guiding every departmental representative to understand the basic principles of standardized metadata and uniform regional reference codes. BPS provided in-depth technical assistance so that every local survey conducted by regional government agencies, such as data collection on subsidized fertilizer recipient farmers or village-level health facility inventories, can meet strict scientific principles so their validity is recognized nationally. The transformation of the work culture from a project completion orientation toward a data quality orientation has gradually begun to build solidly, awakening regional apparatuses that precise sectoral data is the main fuel for the smooth running of a bureaucracy responsive to crisis dynamics.

The implementation of the EPSS Plenary Meeting in early September weaves a very strong common thread with the strengthening of the overall national statistics system, where macroeconomic and sectoral databases must run in parallel and support one another. BPS leadership affirmed that the basic macroeconomic data framework can never live optimally if it is not supported by a supply of micro-sectoral data periodically updated by each OPD. For example, the portrait of the number of restaurants and hotels requires continuous synchronization with new business license issuance data from local licensing departments so the economic portrait of Lampung Province remains relevant, up-to-date, and does not lose its predictive power in reading regional investment trends.

This EPSS Plenary Meeting concluded with the signing of an inter-agency action alignment commitment, locking in an agreement that data transparency and data sharing are constitutional obligations that can no longer be avoided in the era of information openness. The Head of BPS Lampung Province highly appreciated the open-mindedness and strong will of the entire regional government ranks to continuously improve the quality of their sectoral statistics under BPS supervision. With the foundation of One Data Indonesia now standing much sturdier post-plenary, Lampung Province is optimistic about its ability to formulate development policy architectures that are entirely precise, equitable, and accurately dive into the growth centers most in need of a touch of state intervention.