Kerangka Sampel Area (KSA)

Indonesian government is now ceaselessly launching programs, which are related to upgrading national productivity in agriculture commodity, regarding one of Nine National Development Priority Agenda known as Nawacita, which is to achieve self-supporting food in Indonesia. Upgrading the methodology and agricultural data collecting technique is a must to the availability of accurate and up-to-date agricultural data, which is a basic to develop objective agricultural policies.

Up until now, the data of harvested area of paddy and secondary crop is collected using conventional method, which is using list from Statistik Pertanian (SP), based on that method, the area of harvested land is based on eye estimate by the officer. Eye estimate method has many disadvantages, such as low accuracy and longtime interval of collecting the data.

Statistic Indonesia (BPS) is having a partnership with BPPT to build a more objective sampling frame and modern report system which is used in collecting technology-based agricultural statistic data in order to repair previous method hoping to create accurate and punctual agricultural data. This partnership is launched with the name “Pengumpulan Data Statistik Pertanian Tanaman Pangan Terintegrasi dengan Metode Kerangka Sample Area (KSA)”

Implementation of KSA Survey is started from 2017 for every province in Java Island except DKI Jakarta. In the year 2018, KSA survey held in every province in Indonesia. This activity due by fourth week in every month. Field survey in this activity is observing growing phase of paddy plant in each segment. Field survey is the most important thing to define the accuracy level of paddy production estimation and projection. Field survey requires observer to visit 9 (nine) sub-segments at last week of the month to observe and take photo all the subsegments. Because not all the subsegments is located at the paddy field, it will create much geographical problems which is make field survey much more challenging for the observer.

Written by : Hadi Erwin, S.Si

Translation by : Syifasari Diennabila, S.ST