DPR Baleg prepares discussion of the Indonesian One Data Bill to synchronize national data

JAKARTA - The DPR RI Legislation Agency (Baleg) is preparing to draft the Indonesian One Data Bill to optimize the use of national data and to harmonize inter-agency government data.

Chairman of the DPR Baleg Bob Hasan said the bill was a DPR initiative proposal that emerged after the experience of handling disasters in the Sumatra region last November.

According to him, the Indonesian One Data Bill aims to integrate various data on national potential so that it can be optimally utilized in development planning.

"The Indonesian One Data Bill is a form of activating all data on the potential that exists in Indonesia for planned, structured, and appropriate national development," said Bob Hasan to reporters in Jakarta, Friday, March 13.

Bob said further discussion on the bill would be held at the DPR Baleg. However, he has not confirmed the time for the start of the discussion process.

"Yes, this is an initiative of the DPR and will be discussed in the Baleg," said the legislator from the Gerindra Party.

Previously, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Sufmi Dasco Ahmad said that the DPR planned to discuss the Indonesian One Data Bill this year.

He explained that the plan emerged after the discovery of data differences during disaster handling in a number of regions in Sumatra, such as Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.

"The Legislation Agency will also hold public participation for the harmonization of the Asset Confiscation Law, and then immediately discuss the One Data Law," said Dasco at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta.

According to Dasco, experience in the field shows that data owned by one ministry is often different from data owned by other ministries.

The difference, he said, caused a lack of synchronization when distributing assistance to disaster-affected communities.

"For example, social assistance data or BPJS data from one ministry to another ministry is different, so that there is a lack of synchronization in the field when providing assistance to refugees," he said.

Dasco hopes that the presence of the Indonesian One Data Law can unite various government databases so that it no longer causes confusion of information in the community.