Home Affairs Minister, Muhammad Tito Karnavian, has requested that\nregional governments in the disaster-affected areas of Sumatra expedite\nthe data collection for permanent housing (huntap) along with its\nclassification. Regional governments have been given a one-week deadline\nto complete the accurate data collection.<\/p>\n
Tito, who also serves as Chairman of the Task Force for Accelerating\nRehabilitation and Reconstruction (PRR) Post-Sumatra Disaster,\nemphasised that the speed and accuracy of the data are key to\naccelerating the construction of huntap for affected communities. He\nalso stressed that huntap will only be built for houses that are\nseverely damaged or lost.<\/p>\n
\u201cI gave a deadline until next Wednesday. Meanwhile, we are doing this\nin parallel, BPS is going down, BNPB is also going down, I from this\nTask Force also have a team going down to these three provinces. And I\nalso ask for support from the governors to encourage the regents and\nmayors to carry out the data collection,\u201d said Tito in a written\nstatement on Thursday (16\/4\/2026).<\/p>\n
He conveyed this to the media after leading the Coordination Meeting\non Huntap Data Collection at the Secretariat of the PRR Task Force Post,\nMinistry of Home Affairs Central Office, Jakarta, on Wednesday\n(15\/4).<\/p>\n
It is known that there are three classifications of huntap, namely\nhuntap insitu (at the original location), huntap ex situ (relocated to a\nchosen\/self-funded location), and huntap ex situ centralised\/communal\n(in the form of a complex). The results of this data collection will\nserve as the basis for determining the appropriate huntap construction\nscheme for affected residents.<\/p>\n
Tito also asked regional heads to go directly and form small teams so\nthat the data collection process can run more quickly.<\/p>\n
Based on preliminary data, the number of proposed huntap\nconstructions in the three affected provinces reaches 39,021 units. The\ndetails are: Aceh with 28,876 units, North Sumatra 7,321 units, and West\nSumatra 2,824 units. However, all that data still needs to be verified\nby the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) before construction is\nexecuted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, from the 39,000 it will also be verified by BPS. Whether it\u2019s\ntrue, severely damaged\/lost, eligible or not, and so on. Then BNPB and\nthe Minister of PKP will carry out the execution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The government has designated the Ministry of Housing and Settlement\nAreas (PKP) and the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) as the\nmain spearheads for huntap construction. In addition, there is support\nfrom the Buddha Tzu Chi Foundation, Police (Polri), and the Coordinating\nMinistry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs (Kemenko\nPolkam).<\/p>\n
Tito emphasised that construction will be prioritised in areas where\nthe data is ready first.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we build first are the areas that already have ready data. So,\nplease, fellow regional heads, don\u2019t let them be complained about by the\ncommunity because of delays in carrying out the data collection,\u201d he\nasserted.<\/p>\n
The coordination meeting was attended directly by Minister of PKP\nMaruarar Sirait and Head of BPS Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti. Attending\nonline were Deputy IV for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of BNPB\nJarwansah as well as regional heads from the three affected\nprovinces.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/home-affairs-minister-urges-regional-governments-to-expedite-permanent-housing-data-collection-deadline-next-1776311449", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }