Scholarship / Essay for Studying In UK_Chevening Scholarship; statistics survey in Development Issues - Indonesia [4]

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career as a project leader in statistics

As a Statistics Graduate from Indonesia Institute of Statistics that belongs to Statistics of Indonesia, I learned statistics as my academic background for the basic knowledge at work. After working at Statistics Indonesia and getting involved in census & surveys activities, I realize that I should not only have Statistics skill but also the ability to understand the theory and practical knowledge of the project itself. One of the goals for those Census & Surveys are to measure data in order to evaluate the achievement of Indonesia Development Goals. So, having master degree for Development field is the best choice to balance my previous education as a Statistician in order to understand the challenges of Development Goals related to many surveys and census that I am involved.

My first choice is Social Development Practice at The University College London (UCL). The programme objectives are to give a solid grounding in social analysis skills and perspectives, inequality and social change processes. It would introduce me to critical, analytical and practical skills that will be of use in my Statistics Development social project. Since we hold surveys and census mostly in Social Issues which are related to poverty, gender issues, disaster, mobility etc and this datum are crucial for Indonesia Development, so it will be beneficial for me in order to understand the Social Development Knowledge. Moreover, this programme also provides international fieldwork group as a practical research-based that would be helpful to draw the various elements of the degree.

The second choice is Poverty, Inequality and Development at the University of Birmingham. This program enables me to study development with a specific on poverty and inequality, both key aspects of current development policy discourse. Statistics Indonesia releases poverty figures in March 2018 about 9,82% of the total population which is 25,95 million Indonesians are now categorized as poor. Moreover, there are dozens of millions Indonesian who live just above the poverty line. This course will help me to enable critical evaluation of how well sociological understanding of development inform the social analysis of poverty and inequality, as well as what implications this might have for development policy. This programme also provides specific compulsory module to examine different approaches to defining and measuring poverty and inequality. It will be beneficial for me to analyze the survey, the methodology and the output we provide from our project related to poverty and inequality so the measurement of poverty and inequality rate would be more relevant and accurate.

My third option is Global Development at the University of Leeds. This course offers key issues surrounding global development, such as inequality, gender, and other various aspects of development practice. I will also review strategies, programmes and policies in Development that will be beneficial for me having a career as a Development Consultant as well. Graduating from one of these three courses would help me to develop my professional career as project leader for national scale statistics survey in Development Issues.

Scholarship / Career Plan for Development Issues - Chevening Essay [2]

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I plan to head the collaboration with DFID Indonesia

Statistics Indonesia, as the main Statistics Institution in Indonesia, plays a very important role to provide a complete and accurate data for Indonesia Development Planning. We provide large range of data such as economy, social, agriculture etc which will help Government to plan, evaluate and make policy regarding Indonesia Development Issues. One of the example is the data used for Government's long and middle-term Development Planning that are mostly from Statistics Indonesia.

My immediate plan upon returning to the country is to get connected with Chevening Indonesia community. I will resume my work at Statistics of X where I will be able to apply what I have learned. With my understanding about Development Issues, I will help and collaborate with X Government Institution through Statistics Division in X Officials to monitor and evaluate the development of the city by analyzing data, understanding the development condition regarding of my knowledge and analyzing the policy that are related to Development Issues. I will also build upon certain ideas that I have in order to collaborate with X Officials by creating project survey related to Development Issues in X City.

After two years, I will be moving to the head office of Statistics Indonesia in Y. Working at the head office will let me have the chance designing better surveys related to Development Issues using the knowledge I will gain after graduating from my master degree and from experiences I have got from working at cities and regencies. I will evaluate the surveys and census that have been done for years by Statistics of Cities and Regencies in Indonesia so the results will have a greater impact for Indonesia Development. In five years, I will also take the chance to work together with Chevening Community who are also working on Development Issues, with National Institution and International Institution or Organization such as UNDP Indonesia & World Bank Project by doing surveys to make depth research about Indonesia Development. My knowledge of Development issues and my collaboration experience would help me designing, monitoring and evaluating my project of surveys together with the team.

As a fast growing economy, Indonesia is still the main partner for United Kingdom (UK). UK is one of the biggest trade partner for Indonesia and top investor among europe countries in 2017 for Indonesia. UK also contributes through Department For International Development (DFID) for Indonesia Development Issues such as poverty, disaster, water sanitation, etc. Since DFID works to tackle global challenge regarding Development Issues, I plan to head the collaboration with DFID Indonesia through project, surveys or research in order to get the valid data regarding people and issues need to be solved in Indonesia. The data we collaborate would be beneficial for DFID funding target to help and solve the Development Issues in Indonesia. Since our data is also used by the Government to tackle Development Issues, such as poverty, I hope for more Development Issues that could be solved in Indonesia with this collaboration.

Scholarship / Networking Skill as Powerful Weapon at Work_ Chevening Scholarship [2]

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the beneficial networking

Networking is about creating a group of acquaintances and associates and keeping it active to regular communication and exchange information or ideas for mutual benefits. In 2017, as the Person in Charge of Statistics Integrated Processing and Dissemination Division at Statistics of X, I had responsibility to create, compile and publish the Main Book of Statistics X, "X In Figures 2017" every 16th August. This is a mandatory book that is published yearly by Statistics Indonesia in every level of region, even national level and eagerly waited by data user, college students, researcher, and the Government. In order to fulfill the project, I collaborated with Official Statistics Division of X Government. They helped me to compile data from Stakeholders and Institution from X City Official. Then I initiated to hold a meeting, a Focus Group Discussion (FGD), to invite all the data sources. They were from Every Department of X Officials, Indonesia State Owned Enterprise, Central Government based in X, Some Companies and also Indonesia Specialized Agencies such as, Bank of Indonesia. The aim of this forum was to make the data processing of X In Figures easier and to broaden network related to my regular and upcoming tasks at Statistics of X. On that occasion, I acted as the main speaker of the forum content and we got chance to discuss and share ideas related to professional chances. The forum helped me a lot not only for accomplishing X in Figures but also other duties given at the office because the connection I have.

Another instance I used my networking skill was when I got involved in a survey called Integrity Assessment Survey (SPI) on November 2017. It was a new survey of Statistics Indonesia collaborating with Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). It was a super sensitive survey because of the questions related to Anti-Corruption behavior. Our team had to interview the Clerk chief of X, Chief of some X Department Government Officials, the staffs and also some service user from the civil. Other teams from other city and regencies had difficulties accomplishing the survey because many of them were not cooperative and refused to be interviewed. With the connection I had and the help from my direct supervisor, I contacted the Statistics Division of X Government and contact persons from stakeholders related to SPI Survey. We held meeting to explain understanding about the survey and asked support from them. It gave positive result to our team, I arranged the schedule for each Department and they welcomed us well for the interview section.

In the future, I would like to broaden my network with chevening community especially in my fields by handling some meetings, having project that we could create regarding our related study and field. I would like to network with incoming chevening scholars not only in my country but also in the world to create project regarding statistics, surveys and to solve problem of Development Issues that I would like to decode.

Scholarship / Being a leader for challenging situation - those experiences have given me problem solving skills [3]

Leadership and Influencing Essay for Chevening

Being a leader requires the ability to manage various activity and people, the ability to communicate well, the ability to adapt with changes in different situation and condition, the ability to have critical thinking in developing strategic plan and the ability to solve the problem or case. Those skills are gained after facing many kind of challenging situations at work. One of my experiences, On March 2017 I just moved from X City to Y City, the Capital City of Z Province. That moment, I was placed in a new division called Integrated Processing and Dissemination Data (IPDS). The main duty is data processing of census and survey, program and software installation, website and IT related things. It was so challenging for me because It was a new place, I had never been in this division before, I had no IT background and there was neither Head Division nor the staff, so I was the only person in charge for the division.

The first task I got was Data Processing of Semester Survey, Social Economic National Survey (SUSENAS) on March 2017. SUSENAS is the mother of survey at Statistics Indonesia because of the complexity of variables, thickness of documents and the important data for Indonesia Development Planning as the output. The problem I faced in processing SUSENAS was the big amount of samples/ documents in Y City compared with other cities/ regencies, while the provided Personal Computer was only 2 PCs and we had to validate 760 documents. Because of that, I created my data processing team, set the effective target and estimated the added laptop. Then I directed and managed my team, monitored and gave the daily target for each one of them as a challenge. My main strategy was mapping strengths and weakness for each one of my team member. Based on that mapping and analyzing. I slowly changed the work allocation burden based on their performance. This strategic worked really well, the work progress got quicker and the quality of the task got better because I put the right person in the right place based on their capability and performance. In the middle of the process, periodically I also gave feedback to my team and announced the member who had the best performance and gave reward to motivate my team to work better. For keeping the quality of documents, I also collaborated with Social Division as the survey executor.

Because of the strategies I had, the lack of PC, huge amount of documents and the complexity of data validation was no longer the problem. As the result, my team was the first one touching the finish line beating other cities and regencies in Province Z. Our rank for SUSENAS also increased from 472 on Semester II 2016, becoming 47 on Semester I 2017 which was ranked among cities/regencies in Indonesia and On September 2017, for the first time ever, Statistics of Y got the first place for SUSENAS assessment. This was such a great achievement for me who was counted as a junior and a newbie.

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