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Satu Data Indonesia — Harmonising Fragmented Government Data Under One National Portal

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Indonesia's Satu Data portal launched Dec 2022 with 136,501 datasets, harmonising fragmented ministry- and province-level statistics. Within a year, 58% of ministries and 68% of provinces had linked data — though reporting flagged the shared 'marketplace' still needed more data.

136,501 datasets
Datasets catalogued at launch (December 2022)
43 of 83 (58%) ministries
National ministries/institutions linked (within about 1 year of launch)
26 of 38 (68%) provinces
Provinces linked (within about 1 year of launch)
Satu Data Indonesia — Harmonising Fragmented Government Data Under One National Portal

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas) and Geospatial Information Agency (BIG), Indonesia
Period
2022-2023
Keywords
open government data, digital government, statistical governance

Context

Indonesia's 'Satu Data' (One Data) policy sought to end years of fragmented, inconsistent statistics across ministries and provinces by requiring agencies to publish data under one shared standard and portal, coordinated by the Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas) and the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG).

Objectives

The programme aimed to harmonise government data under a single national standard and portal, closing the gap between agencies' separately-managed statistics.

Activities

The Satu Data Indonesia portal launched in December 2022, requiring ministries and provinces to link their own data systems to the shared national platform.

Results

The portal launched with a reported 136,501 datasets already catalogued, and within roughly its first year 43 of 83 national ministries and institutions (about 58%) and 26 of 38 provinces (about 68%) had linked their own data systems to the national platform.

Conclusions

Contemporaneous local reporting described the launch honestly as a "data marketplace that still needs more data," noting that the scale of the portal's catalogue at launch outpaced the depth and consistency of actual agency participation; as a programme only launched in December 2022, Satu Data Indonesia does not yet have independent evaluation of longer-term outcomes, and is included here as a large, verifiably-scaled national data-harmonisation effort with an honestly documented early adoption gap rather than as a proven long-term success.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — Cost figures are not disclosed in available sources; delivered as a joint Bappenas/BIG national government initiative.
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years) — Portal launched December 2022; ministry and provincial linkage rates (58% and 68% respectively) were measured within roughly the first year.
Staffing & skills
Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), Geospatial Information Agency (BIG)

Conditions for success

  • Requiring agencies to publish data under one shared standard and single portal
  • Coordinated central leadership from Bappenas and BIG across dozens of ministries and provinces

Common failure modes

  • At launch, the breadth of the datasets catalogue outpaced the depth and consistency of actual agency participation, described locally as a 'data marketplace that still needs more data'
  • As of roughly one year post-launch, 42% of ministries and 32% of provinces had not yet linked their data systems

Where it fits

Governance type
national government (central planning plus geospatial agency)
Scale
national (all ministries and provinces)
Income level
lower-middle-income

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