Geospatial Information Agency ( id, Badan Informasi Geospasial, abbreviation: ''BIG'') is the

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. BIG was formerly named National Coordinator for Survey and Mapping Agency ( id, Badan Koordinasi Survei dan Pemetaan Nasional, abbreviation: ''Bakosurtanal''). This national agency is responsible for Indonesian

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information per one map policy implementation. In 2010, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (former

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) stated that Indonesia should have a single referenced map, so there would not be any differences in spatial data for country development. Geospatial Information Agency is mandated by the Presidential Regulation No. 9 Year 2016 pertaining to the Implementation of One Map Policy to play a key role in achieving the goal of having one standardized map by the end of 2019. Specifically, Geospatial Information Agency is tasked to chair the One Map Policy Implementation Team as stipulated in Chapter 6, Article 3 of the regulation. Furthermore, this agency is also responsible to assist the Acceleration Team chaired by Indonesia's Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs to resolve land and map conflicts as the result of One Map Policy implementation. Despite the agency function as primary imagery intelligence agency of Indonesia and part of Indonesian intelligence system, the agency was coordinated under the

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prior 1 November 2015. On 1 November 2015, the agency coordination transferred to the Ministry of National Development Planning in pursuant of the Presidential Decree No. 127/2015. On 1 November 2022, based on the latest constituting document, Presidential Decree No. 128/2022, the agency placed under the

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with Ministry of National Development Planning coordination.

Structure

The latest BIG structure, based on Geospatial Information Agency Regulation No. 4/2020, No. 5/2020, No. 6/2020, and Prime Secretary of BIG Decree No. 98/2021: # Chairman of BIG ## Center for Research, Public Relations, and Cooperation ## Inspectorate ## Geospatial Services Division ## Geospatial Education and Training Division # Prime Secretary of BIG ## Bureau of Planning, Human Resources, and Legal ## Bureau of General Affairs and Finance ### Division of General Affairs and Procurement Service # Deputy Chairman of Base Geospatial Information ## Center for Geodetic Control Network and Geodynamics ## Center for Topographic Mapping and Toponym ## Center for Marine and Coastal Mapping ## Center for Boundary Mapping # Deputy Chairman of Thematic Geospatial Information ## Center for Thematic Mapping and Thematic Integration ## Center for Spatial Planning Mapping and Atlas # Deputy Chairman of Geospatial Information Infrastructure ## Center for Geospatial Information Management and Dissemination ## Center for Geospatial Standards and Institutional Affairs

References

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