House Commission XI Chair: Decile determination parameters need improvement

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Chair of House Commission XI of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI), Mukhamad Misbakhun, believes that the parameters used to determine deciles in the National Single Social and Economic Data (DTSEN) need to be improved so that the distribution of social assistance, food aid, and subsidies is better targeted.

The statement was made by Misbakhun in response to scrutiny of the accuracy of DTSEN, which serves as one of the bases for determining community groups that receive various social protection programmes.

Misbakhun said in Jakarta on Thursday that data accuracy is important because deciles have so far been used as one of the benchmarks for determining which community groups are entitled to receive various social protection programmes.

“Within social protection, the broad framework is social protection. Within that, there is social assistance, food aid, various types of assistance, including subsidies,” said Misbakhun.

According to him, improvements to DTSEN are necessary so that various social protection and subsidy policies can be provided to community groups that meet the recipient criteria.

He explained that deciles are used as one of the benchmarks in determining which communities fall into the category of aid recipients, including poverty alleviation programmes and policy interventions through subsidies.

“Who is entitled, those deciles have been used so far as a benchmark for who will be included in the category of social assistance recipients,” he said.

Misbakhun said that House Commission XI, which oversees the financial, monetary, and financial services sectors, is also paying attention to the decile issue because it relates to the effectiveness of social protection programmes and policies that have an impact on the state budget.

He considers the accuracy of determining recipients to be important given that the government allocates a large amount of budget for social protection and subsidy programmes.

Misbakhun added that more detailed data collection is also being carried out through the economic census. According to him, updating the data can support improvements to the database used in policy formulation.

DTSEN is a government database containing the social and economic conditions as well as the welfare ranking of the community. As the socio-economic conditions of the community change, decile positions can also change due to data updates.

Statistics Indonesia (BPS) recorded that, as of 10 July 2026, DTSEN Version 3 Year 2026 covers 290.13 million individual records and 95.98 million family records.

BPS stated that the coverage of DTSEN continues to be updated so that the data increasingly reflects the current socio-economic conditions of the community.