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View all search resultsBPS delays releasing poverty data ‘to ensure accuracy’
The BPS has delayed the release of its poverty rate data for March 2025 “to ensure the accuracy and the quality of the data”, but the third such delay in government data this year could unsettle the market, experts have warned.
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Children play on July 15, 2022, along train tracks running through a shantytown in Pejompongan, Central Jakarta. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak Ahmad)
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he government has postponed publishing the March 2025 poverty rate originally scheduled for release on Tuesday, marking the third such delay this year for a dataset that was previously published like clockwork.
Statistics Indonesia (BPS) said on its website that the release of the biannual poverty data had been postponed “to ensure the accuracy and the quality of the data”, and that a new release date would be announced soon.
“This adjustment is made as part of BPS’s commitment to providing accurate and accountable data and statistical information to all data users,” reads the announcement, which appeared on Wednesday when The Jakarta Post accessed the BPS website.
Lawmaker Said Abdullah responded to the delay by emphasizing that BPS data serve as a reference for state institutions, the legislature as well as businesses.
“It’s regrettable that the release [of the poverty data] is delayed. There should be no postponement, because BPS serves as a reference point every month for all economic actors,” Said, who hails from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), said on Tuesday, as quoted by Kumparan.
Nevertheless, he admitted that a delay was preferable to publishing incomplete data.
“If the data is incomplete, don’t publish it. It’s better to apologize to the public. That’s important,” Said added.
