Strengthening Synergy at the 2024 Agricultural Economic Survey Coordination Meeting

BPS-Statistics Indonesia held a coordination meeting for the 2024 Agricultural Economic Survey (SEP) in Jakarta on September 24, attended by provincial and region/city heads of BPS from across Indonesia. Acting Head of BPS, Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti in her opening remarks emphasized the meeting aims, which is to ensure thorough and comprehensive coordination and evaluation of SEP 2024. She also hope that data from SEP 2024 will provide a clear picture of the economic conditions in Indonesia’s agricultural sector. Amalia further highlighted the vital role of data in achieving the Vision of Golden Indonesia 2045. She also stated that in the context of national development, high-quality data is essential to achieving state goals, including the Vision 2045, which is outlined in eight missions of the national development guidance. One of these missions involves economic transformation that focus on increasing productivity, including in the agricultural sector.

The meeting was attended by Deputy of Maritime Affairs and Natural Resources from the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), Vivi Yulaswati. Vivi explained that SEP 2024 captures and highlights new potentials in agriculture as a source of economic growth. She also added that this survey not only represents Indonesia’s contribution to the global community through the World Census of Agriculture framework but also serves as a follow-up to the successful 2023 Agricultural Census.

During the meeting, the latest results from the 2023 Agricultural Census (ST2023) were released, including SDG indicators 2.3.1 on smallholder productivity and 5.a.1 on women’s land access. A panel discussion titled "Sustainable Transformation of the Agricultural Sector Toward Golden Indonesia 2045" was also held, featuring M. Habibullah (Deputy of Production Statistics, BPS), Bustanul Arifin (Chair of the Statistical Society Forum), Indra Wijayanto (Director of Food Availability, Bapanas), and Galih Kurniawan (Managing Editor of Bisnis Indonesia), moderated by presenter Zivanna Letisha.