During 30 June - 5 July 2024, a five-day workshop organized by Vital Strategies Data Impact Program, and supported by the CRVS Program and ESCAP, on the use of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics data for the production of vital statistics in Bandung, Indonesia, brought the collective efforts of various ministries closer to the production of the first vital statistics report. 

For the first time, staff from the Center Bureau of Statistics (BPS) and Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) jointly worked on data processing using birth and death registration data. By the end of the workshop, various tabulations had been produced and MoHA agreed to provide BPS with the remaining tabulations to enable them to develop the vital statistics report. 

The workshop was also attended by staff from the National Development Planning (Bappenas) and Ministry of Health (MoH) and thus provided opportunity to all involved ministries to strengthen their knowledge on the production of vital statistics.

BPS and MoHA continue to work on the vital statistics report and aim to publish it in October 2024.