Encouraging Data-driven Environmental Protection Policy Making on Risk-based Licensing

. Indonesian government designs Bill Draft on Job Creation as strategic step becoming the Top Five World Economic Powers. The bill draft adopts Omnibus Law method. It used to replace and/or revoke provisions in a law, or to rearrange several provisions in a law into one law. Several groups considered it is going to threaten potentially environmental sustainability because it removes environmental permit. However, this draft requires also industries having a risk-based bussiness license. Before obtaining the license, certain industries have to undertake an environmental feasibility test. So far, environmental impact assessment has left many problems, particularly on data usage. Even though a more data-driven and empirical approach to environmental protection promise many benefits. So the study aims to scrutiny a data need on the process of publishing the license and how to meet it. This study uses library research approach. The result shows that risk-based business licensing need more data to produce good analysis. Moreover, the government should upgrade the data governance performance