BPS Presses The Importance Of Systematic Improvements In Governance Of Poverty Data

Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Margo Yuwono. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Margo Yuwono emphasized the importance of improving systematics in the aspect of poverty management, including data governance.

According to Margo, these improvement efforts are needed to achieve the target of reducing the poverty rate by 2024 to 7 percent and extreme poverty by zero percent.

"If you look at the data trend, the poverty data in 2022 is 9.5 percent and extreme poverty is 2.04 percent. It seems a bit difficult to reach 7 percent and 0 percent, but we need to make efforts to accelerate in the form of new governance so that the target percentage of poverty and extreme poverty in 2024 is achieved," he said at the launch of the 2023 BPS Bureaucratic Reform and the 2020 Population Form Census results at the Reksa Fund Tower, quoted from Antara, Jakarta, Monday, January 30.

Based on data on extreme poverty conditions in 212 priority districts/cities for the government in 2022, there was a decrease in percentage from 3.61 percent in March 2021 to 2.76 percent in March 2022.

There was a change in category from extreme poor in the March 2021 period to non-extreme poor in March 2022 by 2.91 percent. The category of extreme poor who remain extreme poor is 0.7 percent, and are not extreme poor, becoming extreme poor by 2.06 percent.

Margo said that poverty is dynamic, so it is necessary to design good data management through regular, integrated and sustainable data updating, so that the target of overcoming extreme poverty in 2024 and its goals becomes clear.

"This needs to be built and clearly determine that who is extreme poor, this must be clearly defined so that ministries/agencies including local governments have the same targets as targets that we want to achieve," said Margo.