President Jokowi to Apply Mandatory Data Integration
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will issue a regulation forcing ministries and agencies to integrate their data into one channel to prevent any data overlap. All this time, fragmented data across ministries and agencies often hold back the government's policy-making. One Data Indonesia secretariat coordinator Oktorialdi suggested that classic problems such as overlapping data needed to be addressed immediately. Ministries and agencies collect the data based on their expertise and use them in various analyses and policy making.
"There will be a policy that forces [the data integration] according to the president's directives," Oktorialdi said on Friday. This policy is expected to prevent institutional egos in managing and using the data.