(Tangerang, Indonesia) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Statistics Indonesia (BPS) held a series of capacity building on the Essentials of Migration Management 2.0 on 11 – 12 July 2024 and the Essentials of Migration Data from 31 July to 2 August 2024. The series of the capacity building aims to strengthen the capacities of government stakeholders in formulating and implementing migration-governance policies and programmes based on evidence through data management, from generating, processing, sharing, analysing, and visualizing, to disseminating. These capacity-building activities were participated by representatives of various ministries, including BP2MI, Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture, and Coordinating Ministry for Politics, Law, and Security Affairs, and other ministries.

The Essentials of Migration Management 2.0 modules highlight the interaction between different migration thematic areas and build a shared understanding of migration with a whole-of-government approach. Meanwhile the Essentials of Migration Data modules were recently developed as a comprehensive review of available toolkits and guidelines from IOM to improve the dissemination of migration data and statistics at the national level.

Moussoumokhan Diallo, Programme Officer, IOM Indonesia, emphasized the importance of these capacity building activities to help stakeholders implement One International Data on Migration or Satu Data Migrasi Internasional (SDMI) more effectively. “It has been an honour for IOM Indonesia to work with BPS for the past 1,5 years to strengthen the engagement with various ministries to identify priorities and needs for SDMI, and to build the understanding of the migration governance and data management. As recommended in the proposed draft blueprint and roadmap document, ensuring and affording the interoperability of migration data and the capacity to manage it must be included in the plan to use SDMI effectively. Therefore, IOM and BPS are conducting this capacity building to establish a sustainable mechanism for the transfer of knowledge and skills between and among government actors,” she said. 

IOM Indonesia has been supporting the development and implementation of the SDMI initiative, led by Statistics Indonesia, especially in the proposed draft of the blueprint and roadmap of SDMI. IOM and BPS had been conducting a series of consultation meetings and workshop throughout 2023, completed by launching of collaboration on SDMI in December 2023, which marked the first step of SDMI implementation to drive further dialogue for the scope of collection and use of international migration data in Indonesia, division of roles and responsibilities between ministries and institutions, coordination mechanism, and technical aspects, such as data protection and system interoperability. The link for the launching can be found Launching of Collaboration on One International Migration Data

“Our understanding of data is very important because data is not only a number, but it can represent the experience and aspiration of thousands and millions of people by improving our skills to collect, analysis, and utilize migration data to develop a more responsive policy towards the needs of migrants and also contribute to the well-being of society,” said Ali Said, Director of Population and Manpower Statistics, Statistics Indonesia. “In order to strengthen the coordination of SDMI, we need to bring the discussion gained today, especially issues and data priorities, to the next meeting in the format of the SDMI Forum. The forum will also be intended to establish a working group of multi ministries and institutions to dig deep on the prioritized migration thematic issues,” he added.  He also thanked the active participation and hoped that the activities would have a positive impact on migration data management in Indonesia.  As the next step of this activity, he planned to propose the development of an action plan in details, including targets, other indicators, and milestones for SDMI.

Through these activities, it is hoped that the implementation of SDMI at national and sub-national levels will go smoothly while emphasizing the objectives that the Government of Indonesia would like to achieve based on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration or the GCM.  Participants in the training identified data needs and priorities to contribute to the advancement of SDMI, explored various tools for data management, and proposed action plans for better migration governance and data management, especially for the SDMI initiative.These activities are conducted by IOM through the Asia Regional Migration Program, which is being implemented in 12 countries, including Indonesia, with support from the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration of the United States’ Department of State. The programme aims to increase the capability of the governments in the Asian Region in managing sustainable and humane migration.

For more information, please contact:

Pya Ayunindya, National Project Officer, Labour Mobility and Social Inclusion (LMI), email sayunindya@iom.int