Supporting Food Security with Geospatial Statistics

July 3, 2019 | Other Activities

Jakarta - "Geospatial is one of the very good innovations that have been carried out by BPS in an effort to improve food crop statistics," said Denni Puspa Purbasari, Deputy III of the Indonesian President's Staff Office this afternoon (21/6) in the "Building Outcome Progress Socialization Geospatial Statistics of Corn Commodities. "

The event was attended by several ministries / institutions aimed at conveying the interim results that have been carried out by BPS in the Corn Sample Area Framework (KSA). "We have not released production figures because the Corn KSA only lasted two months. So now only the geospatial information, "explained M. Habibullah, Deputy of BPS Production Statistics.

Kadarmanto, Head of the BPS Food Crop Statistics Subdirectorate stated that the number of samples that had been successfully observed was 98.63 percent of the total sample of 87,860 points throughout Indonesia. Medan, which is very difficult to reach a very high point, is one of the factors that has not yet achieved the overall sample.

Habib hopes that this geospatial method can be applied to all commodities in Indonesia. Denni added that innovation in terms of technology must also be carried out to be able to realize geospatial data for all commodities in Indonesia.

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