Ecobiz.asia — Environmental services company Dassa has officially launched Sakala, an integrated Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) platform aimed at accelerating and safeguarding the integrity of environmental data in Indonesia, as demand grows for credible and transparent climate information.
Sakala is designed to streamline the collection, verification, and reporting of environmental data across nature-based and climate projects.
The platform was developed from Dassa’s more than a decade-long experience managing high-integrity nature-based projects, during which the company identified persistent gaps in data reliability, transparency, and speed—challenges that often undermine environmental governance and climate action.
“Integrity drives everything,” Dassa President Director Sylviana Andhella said on Tuesday (Dec. 17, 2025). “Sakala is a manifestation of our field experience—a system that ensures every piece of data generated from nature can be trusted, verified, and accounted for.”
Indonesia’s environmental sector has long grappled with lengthy data-processing and verification cycles, which can stretch from months to years. Fragmented data flows from the field to final reporting stages often increase the risk of inconsistencies and weaken confidence in project outcomes.
Dassa said Sakala was built to address these issues by integrating people, processes, and environmental data into a single workflow. The platform combines field data collection, analysis, visualization, and reporting within one transparent system.
“Data must be trusted,” said Haryo Ajie Dewanto, Dassa’s Director of Technical and Business Development. “With Sakala, every stage of the MRV process leaves a clear trail—complete with context and evidence.”
The platform features real-time integration of field operations to ensure data validity, a dynamic dashboard that visualizes project performance and analytical results, and multilayer verification mechanisms designed to uphold accountability at every stage.
“Accountability builds trust,” said Yudhita Widyastuti, Dassa’s Director of Administration and Finance. “Sakala ensures that every figure has meaning, and every data point can be traced and justified.”
Designed as an adaptive system, Sakala is expected to evolve alongside regulatory and market requirements in the environmental and climate sectors.
Dassa has expanded in recent years into what it describes as an integrated sustainability ecosystem, encompassing Dassa Carbon, Dassa Biodiversity, Dassa Social, Dassa Emission, Dassa Media, and Dassa MRV Soft.
To date, the company has analyzed more than 851,000 hectares of landscapes and assessed potential emission reductions exceeding 203 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent, a figure it said continues to grow with its project portfolio.
Internationally, Dassa is also developing cross-border climate projects under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement and the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) in partnership with Japanese entities, as part of efforts to strengthen carbon governance and measurement standards.
Dassa said the launch of Sakala marks a key step toward more transparent, accountable, and data-driven environmental decision-making in Indonesia.
“Sakala is a space where data meets integrity,” Sylviana said. “It is a bridge between the realities of nature and the decisions that shape our environmental future.” ***
