Local Government One Data Governance: A Semarang Mayoral Regulation on Satu Data Pemerintahan Daerah
Semarang City has issued a mayoral regulation establishing Satu Data Pemerintahan Daerah, the regional tier of Indonesia's national one-data policy. The instrument runs to 62 articles and specifies which unit inside the city administration produces each dataset, which unit verifies it, which unit publishes it, and through which portal the data travels. Its scope reaches every regional government agency, the regional secretariat, the secretariat of the regional legislature, and the sub-district offices.
The regulation responds to a recurring problem in Indonesian regional administration: the same figure reported three different ways by three different offices, with no agreed definition behind any of them. Before this instrument, a regional agency could publish population, health, or infrastructure statistics without a standard structure, a documented method, or a named official answerable for the number. Pasal 1 addresses that directly by defining the working vocabulary of the regime, including Data, Data Statistik, Statistik Sektoral, Standar Data, Metadata, Kode Referensi, and Data Induk. It also fixes the nested relationship between three policy layers: Satu Data Indonesia at national level, Satu Data Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri within the home affairs portfolio, and Satu Data Pemerintahan Daerah at city level, each subordinate to the one above it.
Key Provisions
The operative machinery of the regulation is a chain of named roles rather than a single data office. Pasal 16 sets out the duties of the Produsen Data, the data producer, defined as any unit within a regional agency that generates data listed in the annual data register or assigned by the mayor. Its obligations run from the technical to the accountable: proposing standards and metadata structures to the data supervisor, drafting the regional priority data list, generating data according to one-data principles, populating the Portal Satu Data under an annual circular, transmitting data and metadata to the data custodian, and classifying each dataset as open, restricted, or closed. The same article makes the producing unit responsible for the data it generates and requires periodic updating together with the accompanying metadata. Where a dataset falls outside the annual circular, Pasal 16 still permits the producer to enter it through the portal under prevailing law. It further directs each agency head to appoint a data processor, and allows an incentive for producers carrying that processing role as an additional duty, with the form and recipients of the incentive to be set by mayoral decision.
Pasal 21 creates an intermediate layer between the producing units and the city data custodian. The Walidata Pendukung, or supporting data custodian, is a working unit inside each regional agency that assists the city data custodian in collecting and processing data sourced from producers, but only after the agency head has verified it. The article names the officials who occupy the role: the secretary of each regional agency, the heads of section at the regional secretariat, and the heads of section at the secretariat of the regional legislature. Placing verification with the agency head, and the assembly work with a fixed office rather than an ad hoc appointee, gives the chain a documented point of transfer at each step.
Pasal 23 supplies the coordinating body. The Forum Satu Data Pemerintahan Daerah comprises the local one-data coordinator, the data supervisor, the data custodian, supporting custodians, and data producers, and may bring in outside parties, including non-government participants. It is coordinated by the head of the agency responsible for regional planning, subject to the coordinator's approval. Its agenda is enumerated: next year's data collection list, the regional list aligned to national priority data, the regional one-data action plan, reference codes, proposed access restrictions, implementation of national forum policy, obstacles encountered, resolutions adopted, and further technical policy matters. The forum must convene at least once a year, follows the minutes of the home affairs one-data forum, and its coordinator monitors progress, reports periodically to the mayor, and seeks mayoral direction where a deadlock arises over an agreed position.
Regulatory Context
The instrument sits alongside other recent measures reshaping how regional bodies are organised and held to account, including the nomenclature and structure of regional health offices and the procurement rules applied to public health centre service units. Read together, these instruments push regional administration toward named units with enumerated duties rather than general institutional responsibility. For agencies in Semarang, the immediate operational consequences are the annual data register circular, the classification of each dataset as open, restricted, or closed, and the appointment of data processors within each agency.
CRPG has not been able to verify this instrument’s official number. The Law Database record previously linked here carries the same incorrect classification, so the link has been withdrawn pending correction. Readers should consult the Semarang JDIH for the authoritative text.
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