BLT, Data and Convid Pandemic - 19

The Convid-19 virus developments have had various impacts on the global and national economy. The Convid-19 virus has caused many countries including Indonesia to close the country from foreign tourists visiting the country. To reduce spread, activity restriction is also a relatively good choice in some regions in Indonesia, which causes production and consumption activities to be hampered or even stopped. This caused many people to lose their jobs. Various policies have been provided by the Government of Indonesia to the community, including labor cards and direct cash assistance.

Problems arise when given direct cash assistance. The main problem in providing direct cash assistance is that direct assistance is not on target, causing many citizens in some areas to protest to the government. "Then what's wrong?"  Of course, what's wrong is the data. Data becomes an important reference to determine who is entitled and who is not entitled if the available data differs between one agency and another agency or there is a difference between the data between the central and regional governments then surely problems will arise. The question that always arises "How many poor people are there in Indonesia?" "Is the data of poor citizens between one institution and another institution synchronous and valid?". Classic questions that always arise. So that poverty becomes the focus and problems that become one of the main topics in the election. Data has always been the scapegoat for various errors in providing direct cash assistance.

Data problems are a classic problem faced by Indonesia since the beginning, data problems not only cause problems like the phenomenon that is happening now. Data problems have had a large impact on decisions such as business decisions and government policies. Development planning and health planning will experience problems in the future if the data available between one agency and other agencies or between the central and regional governments there are very significant differences. For this reason, this will be a lesson that will give the government an idea that data is a very important tool in formulating the country's strategic policies in the future. Let us educate the nation and build the Indonesian nation with good data