DPR: One Homeland, One Nation, One Language, One Indonesian Data System
Jakarta (ANTARA) – Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR), Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, delivered a speech extending the 1928 Youth Pledge with the words: “One Homeland, One Nation, One Language, One Indonesian Data System”.
He said the Youth Pledge should be accompanied by a sense of responsibility appropriate to the times. His proposal, he said, was not to alter the historical text, but to interpret the spirit of unity in a contemporary context.
“Data sovereignty and the digital ecosystem are important components of economic resilience, defence and national security,” Dasco said in a speech marking the 98th anniversary of the Youth Pledge at the parliamentary complex in Jakarta on Wednesday.
He said everything now needed to be integrated within the One Data Indonesia framework. This would include accurate population data to serve citizens; data and recognition of Indigenous communities that respect their collective rights; secure information exchange to strengthen cyber resilience; and asset tracing conducted under lawful authority and subject to audit.
Integration, he said, did not mean giving everyone access to all data. Access must instead be restricted according to its purpose, the authority involved, security requirements and citizens’ rights.
He said a country unable to protect its data and infrastructure would struggle to determine its own future. However, a single data system did not mean that all decisions should be centralised, since the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia is founded on decentralisation.
Provincial, regency, municipal, village and urban-village governments, he said, must continue to exercise their authority. The public must also be involved, and its rights protected.
“What we are unifying are standards, connectivity and accountability for data—not extinguishing diversity and local initiative,” he said.
He stressed that a strong state was not one that controlled everything from the centre, but one capable of bringing together the strengths of all its regions.
Earlier, the ninth plenary meeting of the DPR in the first sitting period of the 2026–2027 session approved the One Data Indonesia Bill to be enacted as law.
“Do the factions agree that the One Data Indonesia Bill be approved and enacted as law?” DPR Speaker Puan Maharani asked at the parliamentary building in Jakarta on Tuesday (6 October). Participants at the meeting then approved it.
Deputy Chair of the DPR’s Legislative Body, Sturman Panjaitan, said the bill had been drafted in fulfilment of the constitutional mandate to protect all Indonesian citizens.
According to Sturman, accurate data is essential to creating justice. The DPR’s Legislative Body believes high-quality data is the foundation of sound, transparent and accountable public policy.