DIY Government Aligns Data with BPS Following Desil Classification Changes
The change in the classification of welfare deciles has drawn the attention of the Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY) Regional Government. DIY Regional Secretary Ni Made Dwi Panti Indrayanti said that determining deciles is the authority of the central government.
“That data comes from the central government, not something we determine. The question is about the criteria and where they fall. How they load and classify that data is something we also need to ask BPS about,” Ni Made said in a press release on Thursday (20/8) from the DIY Regional Government Public Relations office.
According to Ni Made, the DIY Regional Government also has data developed through collaboration with district and city governments. This data is integrated into the One Poverty Data system and provides a more detailed picture of community conditions, including welfare groups, assistance received, and the forms of intervention that have been carried out.
“So actually, with that single data system, we can monitor. It is already very detailed in terms of which poverty category, what assistance they receive, and what type. It is all visible there,” she explained.
Ni Made emphasised that the data held by the regional government is not intended to be compared with central government data. The various data sources should instead be aligned so that they complement each other in providing a picture of community conditions.
“It is not that we want to, what is the term, compare data. But to align data,” Ni Made stressed.
According to Ni Made, strengthening and aligning this data is an important part of supporting poverty reduction efforts in DIY. Bapperida DIY, as the data custodian, continues to collaborate with BPS and district and city governments to connect the various data sources held by the region.
Acting Head of BPS DIY Endang Tri Wahyuningsih explained that DTSEN is a database that integrates social and economic information to support more targeted government policies. DTSEN is built through the integration of various data sources (Regsosek, DTKS, and P3KE enriched with data from PLN, BPJS Kesehatan, etc.) and then matched with population administration data.
In DTSEN, family data is collected based on relative welfare levels, then ranked and divided into 10 groups called deciles. Decile 1 covers the 10 percent of families with the lowest relative welfare levels, while Decile 10 represents the 10 percent of families with the highest relative welfare levels.
The determination of decile position considers 41 input variables grouped into Family Identity information, Housing information (condition and quality of residence), Asset Ownership, and Family Member information (education, employment, income, disability, and chronic illness, etc.), so deciles cannot be equated with income levels or become labels that absolutely declare someone rich or poor.
DTSEN is continuously updated and results are available every three months. As a result, a family’s socio-economic conditions can change and decile positions can also shift following updates and data refreshes from various sources.
For members of the public who feel their economic conditions do not match the decile position listed, they can carry out independent updates through the Cek Bansos application or the Cek DTSEN channel. However, a submission does not automatically change the decile because the data must first go through a verification and validation process.
Therefore, deciles should be understood as a picture of a family’s relative welfare position based on data available at the time of the update and are dynamic in nature, not as a label permanently attached to a person or family.
“The most important thing is how we jointly maintain data quality so that it can complement each other,” she said.
Endang also conveyed that DIY’s economic conditions in general still show good growth. According to her, this condition is part of the picture of DIY’s economic development that needs to be continuously supported by the availability of quality data.
On that occasion, Endang conveyed the progress of the 2026 Economic Census implementation in DIY. She hopes that the entire data collection series can proceed according to target and be completed by the end of August 2026.
Endang invited the public to continue participating in the data collection process by providing correct and complete information. Public participation is an important part of producing quality data as a basis for development planning.