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        "id": 1670959,
        "msgid": "home-affairs-minister-government-to-enhance-development-in-border-areas-1775883043",
        "date": "2026-04-11 10:35:02",
        "title": "Home Affairs Minister: Government to Enhance Development in Border Areas",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Infrastructure",
        "summary": "Indonesia's Minister of Home Affairs, Muhammad Tito Karnavian, has announced that the government will boost development in border regions, including the Indonesia-Philippines border in North Sulawesi's Sitaro Regency, as part of President Prabowo Subianto's directives. This initiative involves addressing flood-damaged housing, tackling substandard homes, and reducing high poverty rates in the area, with collaboration from the Ministry of Housing and the Central Statistics Agency. The policy aims to strengthen border welfare, defence, and nationalism, positioning these regions as security buffer zones while ensuring equitable state presence.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta (ANTARA) - Minister of Home Affairs Muhammad Tito Karnavian\nhas emphasised that the government will enhance development in border\nareas, one of which is the Indonesia-Philippines border region in the\nSiau Tagulandang Biaro Islands Regency (Sitaro), North Sulawesi\n(Sulut).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder President Prabowo\u2019s programme, he has instructed Mr Maruarar\nSirait (Minister of Housing and Settlement Areas), myself, the Head of\nBPS, and all relevant parties to work on housing issues and to improve\ndevelopment in border regions,\u201d Tito stated during his remarks in\nJakarta on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This was conveyed by the Minister of Home Affairs during an\ninspection in the Sitaro region, which was recently hit by flooding. He\nstressed that their presence was a direct instruction from President\nPrabowo Subianto to ensure the handling of homes damaged by the\ndisaster.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was conducted alongside Minister of Housing and Settlement\nAreas (PKP) Maruarar Sirait and Head of the Central Statistics Agency\n(BPS) Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the government has programmes to address uninhabitable\nhomes and to strengthen development in border regions.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Home Affairs explained that the Ministry of PKP has a\nprogramme to handle uninhabitable homes in border areas. Sitaro Regency\nis one of the implementation sites for this programme in response to the\nflood impacts experienced by the local community. Additionally, poverty\nrates in the region remain relatively high.<\/p>\n<p>He further emphasised that this policy is part of the government\u2019s\nstrategy to strengthen border areas, both in terms of community welfare\nand aspects of defence and nationalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(This policy is an effort) to maintain border areas as a security\nand defence buffer zone, as well as for the people\u2019s justice so that\nnationalism increases and the state is present,\u201d he said.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/home-affairs-minister-government-to-enhance-development-in-border-areas-1775883043",
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