querying-indonesian-gov-data

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querying-indonesian-gov-data

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Query 57 Indonesian government APIs and data sources — BPJPH halal certification, BPOM food safety, OJK financial legality, BPS statistics, BMKG weather/earthquakes, Bank Indonesia exchange rates, IDX stocks, CKAN open data portals, pasal.id (third-party law MCP). Use when building apps with Indonesian government data, scraping .go.id websites, checking halal certification, verifying company legality, looking up financial entity status, or connecting to Indonesian MCP servers. Includes ready-to-run Python patterns, CSRF handling, CKAN API usage, and IP blocking workarounds.

Querying Indonesian Government Data

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Route the user's intent to the right child reference, then follow its patterns.

Router

User intent	Load reference	Quick pattern
Halal certification, halal product check	references/bpjph-halal.md	POST cmsbl.halal.go.id/api/search/data_penyelia JSON, no auth
Food/drug/cosmetic registration, BPOM	references/bpom-products.md	Session + CSRF → POST cekbpom.pom.go.id/produk-dt
Is this fintech/investment legal, OJK	references/ojk-legality.md	GET sikapiuangmu.ojk.go.id/FrontEnd/AlertPortal/Search
Weather in Indonesia, earthquake, tsunami	references/bmkg-weather.md	GET data.bmkg.go.id/DataMKG/TEWS/autogempa.json
GDP, inflation, population, trade stats	references/bps-statistics.md	GET webapi.bps.go.id/v1/api/... (free API key)
USD/IDR exchange rate, BI Rate	references/bank-indonesia.md	Scrape bi.go.id/id/statistik/informasi-kurs/
Indonesian law, regulation, specific pasal	references/pasal-id-law.md	MCP (third-party): claude mcp add --transport http pasal-id ...
Government datasets on any topic	references/ckan-portals.md	GET {portal}/api/3/action/package_search
Disaster risk for a location	references/inarisk-disaster.md	GET inarisk.bnpb.go.id/api/risk/score?lat=&lon=
Verify company is registered	references/company-verification.md	OpenCorporates → OCCRP → AHU cross-ref
Indonesian stock prices, IHSG	references/idx-stocks.md	yfinance with .JK suffix

Workflow

1. Match user intent to a row in the Router table above
2. Read the linked reference file for full endpoint docs and code
3. Adapt the pattern with user's specific query/parameters
4. Execute and handle failures per the section below

Failure Modes

IP Blocked (403 / Timeout): Most .go.id sites block datacenter IPs. Add 2-5s delays or route through Cloudflare Workers proxy.

CSRF Expired: Re-fetch the HTML page, extract fresh csrf-token from <meta> tag. Applies to BPOM.

Rate Limits: BPS ~100/day, OpenCorporates 500/day, OCCRP 60/min, BPOM 2s gap minimum.

Required Headers:

headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36",
    "Accept-Language": "id-ID,id;q=0.9,en;q=0.8",
}

Data Formats: Indonesian gov sites use Excel (.xlsx) and PDF heavily. Parse with openpyxl and pdfplumber. JSON APIs are the exception.

Extended Docs

For sources not in the Router (procurement, courts, wealth declarations, geospatial, regional portals, ministry-specific data), see the full docs:

• apis/tier1-open-apis/ — 12 sources with REST/JSON APIs
• apis/tier2-scrapeable/ — 10 sources requiring scraping
• apis/tier3-regional/ — 6 regional CKAN portals
• apis/tier4-ministry/ through apis/tier7-civil-society/ — 22 more sources
• mcp-servers/ — MCP server setup and opportunities