A New Era of Plantation Statistics

Cirebon - "BPS is heading towards modern statistics. The combination of the latest technology and methodology will produce more accurate data than ever before," explained Hermanto, Statistics Director of Food Crops, Horticulture and Plantation (STPHP) of BPS, when opening the Discussion on the Acceleration of Garden Commodity Results ( VKakao2019 and VTebu2019) at Luxton Hotel Cirebon on Tuesday (10/15).

The event was also attended by the Director of BPS Statistics Information System, Muchammad Romzi, and the Director of BPS Census Methodology and Survey Development, Sarpono. "I am proud we can work together. Collaboration between our surveys, the latest technology and new methodologies can produce better plantation data," Hermanto said further. Also present were ten representatives from the provincial BPS who were sampled VKakao2019 and VTebu2019.

In addition to discussing the acceleration of the survey results, there will also be a demonstration of the use of drones to measure sugarcane land area in an effort to improve the quality of land area measurement. This activity will be carried out at the Tersana Sugar Factory, East Cirebon on Thursday (17/10). "We present the Indonesian Air Force as the drone operator and PT. Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (RNI) as the operator for the calculation of land area," said Solimah, Head of BPS Plantation Plant Sub Directorate.

"BPS is entering a new era, CAPI has been applied to this survey despite several obstacles. This is a breath of fresh air for BPS, especially coupled with the use of drones. BPS will continue to exist, even if it is attacked by big data," Romzi said. The hope is that the application of this information technology system will not only be applied for surveys in the STPHP directorate, but also in other BPS surveys going forward.