Identification of big data opportunities and challenges in statistics Indonesia

Statistics Indonesia is in charge of doing government duties in the field of statistics. Censuses, surveys and compilation of statistical data have been being done. In some cases, survey environment is getting worse and statistical activities work less efficient. In other hand, a phenomenon called big data arises and many researches learn how to extract big data value. In this paper, researcher identified that big data can be combined in statistical methodology as a part of data source. Researcher identified in three surveys consists of Consumer Price Survey, Business Tendency Survey and Data Satisfaction Survey. In these surveys, researcher found that big data could give opportunities in generating statistical data. Making online submission system, information extraction system, sentiment analysis, and establishing legal cooperation with private sector are some ways to get opportunities delivered by big data. Nevertheless, big data also offer many challenges when combined in statistical methodology. Researcher identified big data challenges come from each stage of statistical methodology. Challenges also come from legislation, security and privacy, storage, processing and data access, skill requirement, and financial.