National Unified Socio-Economic Database Marks First Anniversary
The National Unified Socio-Economic Database (DTSEN) has reached its first anniversary, having been officially enacted on 19 February 2025. The policy was introduced as a follow-up to Presidential Instruction (Inpres) No. 4/2025 on DTSEN.
The instruction mandates the integrated, accurate management of national socio-economic data that can be utilised across ministries and agencies for planning through to the precise targeting of programme delivery.
The first anniversary was marked by the presentation of a cake from the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti, to Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf (Gus Ipul) at the Ministry of Social Affairs office on Friday (20 February). The event was also attended by BPS Deputy Head Sonny Harry Budiutomo Harmadi and Deputy Social Affairs Minister Agus Jabo Priyono.
However, as the celebration took place during the fasting month, the cake was not immediately cut for sharing. On the occasion, Gus Ipul affirmed that DTSEN is becoming increasingly robust through continuous data updating.
“DTSEN is becoming more solid due to continuous updating. Going forward, it will involve villages. If it continues to be updated and connected with data from other ministries, it will become more precise,” he said in a written statement on Friday (20 February 2026).
DTSEN is a unified database containing social and economic information on individuals and families, serving as a shared reference across government agencies. Presidential Instruction No. 4/2025 promotes the integration and synergy of data utilisation so that policies and programmes, including social assistance, can be delivered in a more measurable and accurately targeted manner.
Meanwhile, Amalia explained that DTSEN updates continue to be strengthened through a number of measures, including ground checks conducted on multiple occasions, including a current exercise being carried out in two phases. She stated that the first phase began that day, followed by facilitator training the next day, then field implementation the following week, with a target completion date of 14 March 2026.
The first phase is focused on Contribution Assistance Recipients (PBI) participants suffering from catastrophic or chronic illnesses.
“This first phase of ground checks will cover 106,153 individuals, or approximately 104,000 families,” said Amalia.
In parallel, BPS is also preparing the second phase for late February. The second phase of field verification will be carried out after the Eid al-Fitr holiday, commencing 1 April 2026 for approximately one month. The second phase targets all deactivated PBI participants as well as non-chronic illness sufferers.
“So the second phase is estimated to be completed by the end of April, where this second phase involves ground checks for approximately 11 million individuals, or when converted to families, roughly 5.9 million families,” she concluded.
The government has affirmed that this data updating is key to making DTSEN increasingly precise, including as it begins to involve villages and cross-ministerial data connectivity.