Parliament: SDI Bill Designed to Produce Core Reference Data for Development
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Legislation Body of the Indonesian House of Representatives has revealed that the Single Data Indonesia (SDI) Bill is designed to produce National Basic Data (NBD) as the primary reference for national and regional development planning. Chairman of the Legislation Body of the House of Representatives, Bob Hasan, stated that the SDI is truly based on integration, sovereignty, decentralisation, interoperability, recognition, and legal certainty in data management. “So there will no longer be data management from just one basis; the basis will be integrated to produce something that truly has legal certainty,” said Bob during the SDI Bill drafting meeting at the parliamentary complex in Jakarta on Monday. According to him, the SDI management is also designed to realise national data governance and build an efficient, transparent, and accountable digital-based government. “Then, importantly, strengthening national sovereignty and resilience through sovereign management of NBD,” he said. He explained that these points are in the principles section of the bill, specifically in Article 3 of the draft. In addition, he explained that data sovereignty in the context of SDI management means that the data produced must be valid and accurate, even though it still adopts data from regions, villages, or related ministries/institutions. In the future, said he, data from regions, ministries, or institutions will be managed and led by an authoritative body. According to him, that body can request data supplies from those sources. For example, said he, that data will be needed for social assistance programmes. The data for those programmes, according to him, comes from villages, the Ministry of Social Affairs, or the Directorate of Population and Civil Registration. “Its collection, that decentralised, interoperable data, what is it? Sharing. For whose benefit later? All for the benefit of national and regional development planning,” he said.