Plt. Head of BPS, Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti, accompanied by Deputy for Methodology and Statistical Information of BPS, Imam Machdi attended the "2024 Pacific Statisticians' Leadership Forum (PSLF)" organized by the Australian Bureau Statistics (ABS) @absstats in Canberra, 20-21 May 2024. The event was also attended by heads of statistical offices from countries in the Pacific, such as Cook Island, Fiji, Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Marshal Island, Samoa, Solomon Island, Timor Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
PSLF aims to support the key priorities of the Pacific Statistics Strategic Framework which focuses on developing the skills that NSO senior leaders and managers need to be successful and influential in the National Statistical System. ABS Leader, David Gruen, in his speech conveyed the importance of seeing two perspectives from statistics and policy, so that the resulting statistics can be useful, especially for evidence-based policy.
On this occasion, Deputy Director I of the STIS Statistics Polytechnic and Secretariat of the Regional Data Hub for Asia and the Pacific, Setia Pramana presented the Data Partnership–Regional Data Hub on Big Data and Data Science for Asia and the Pacific. This was welcomed by participants from Pacific countries who expressed interest in joining the Regional Hub. Pramudya Ajeng Safitri from the Directorate of Social Resilience Statistics of BPS also delivered a showcase regarding Disaster Statistics that had been carried out by BPS.
During his visit, the BPS leadership also attended High-level Meetings and the APS-BPS Cross-agency Workshop to discuss various potential collaborations that ABS and BPS could carry out in the future. This visit closed with a visit to the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra, which was received by Lintang Paramitasari, Deputy Head of the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra and his staff.
