SurveyMETER held a Regional Workshop entitled “DATA STRENGTHENING AS THE BASIS FOR POLICY MAKING” at Ros In Hotel Yogyakarta on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. It is also an agenda for the dissemination of the Data-Based Policy Study results in twenty-one districts/cities in three provinces (Central Java, DIY, and East Java), conducted in February-March 2013. SurveyMETER carried out the study under the support of AusAID in collaboration with The Asia Foundation.

Stakeholders from the 16 survey sample districts/cities were the workshop participants each represented by two SKPDs, namely Bappeda and the Education Office or Health Office, Academics and policy practitioners. It is considered a very strategic arena to accommodate the presentation of study results, as well as debate on ideas, insights, and conceptions of data strengthening as the capital for policymakers from various stakeholders.