Coordinating Minister: PRR Task Force Delivers Tangible Results in Post-Disaster Recovery
Jakarta (ANTARA) — Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Sugiono said the Task Force for the Acceleration of Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (Satgas PRR) had delivered substantial, tangible work to restore disaster-affected areas in Sumatra.
“I think this represents extraordinary hard work that deserves recognition. Despite the various circumstances, the government led by President Prabowo Subianto has still been able to fulfil its responsibility to serve the public and address problems in disaster-affected areas,” Sugiono said in a statement in Jakarta on Thursday.
After around 11 months of recovery work, rehabilitation and reconstruction in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra had made significant progress. For recovery activities funded in the 2026 fiscal year, implementation had reached around 96–98 per cent.
The figure reflects progress on rehabilitation and reconstruction activities allocated funding in 2026. Overall recovery efforts are continuing, including work being completed in stages in line with the established rehabilitation and reconstruction plan.
During a visit in his capacity as chair of the PRR Task Force Steering Team, Sugiono received a recovery update from Home Affairs Minister Muhammad Tito Karnavian, who chairs the task force, including details of achievements and outstanding challenges.
Sugiono said the government’s efforts demonstrated its commitment to fulfilling its responsibility to serve people in affected areas. They included issuing regulations, providing budget support, and restoring essential facilities and services in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra.
He said accelerating the completion of outstanding work was important to ensure affected communities could resume normal activities.
As well as ensuring recovery was accelerated, Sugiono stressed the importance of strengthening preparedness for future disasters.
He said climate change could affect rainfall patterns in Indonesia. Rainfall was expected to increase in areas north of the equator, while areas to the south were likely to be drier than normal over the coming decades.
“Mitigation efforts must therefore be factored into our planning, so that if a disaster occurs we are better prepared and can respond and carry out rehabilitation as quickly as possible,” Sugiono said.
Coordination between central and regional governments and all relevant parties must continue to be strengthened, he said, so that recovery can proceed alongside mitigation measures and efforts to improve public preparedness.
Tito, meanwhile, reported that further disasters remained one of the challenges in the rehabilitation and reconstruction process.
Heavy rainfall had triggered renewed flooding in several areas, including Padang and Solok in West Sumatra, Central Tapanuli in North Sumatra, and parts of Aceh.
Tito said sediment build-up in affected rivers had increased the risk of overflow during heavy rain. As a result, some infrastructure that had already been repaired was affected again.
River management therefore needed to be accelerated to reduce the risk of further flooding.
Tito said speeding up work on 137 rivers affected by sedimentation in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra should be part of efforts to reduce the risk of renewed floods.
He called on the Ministry of Public Works to support faster river clearance and management, so that rehabilitation and reconstruction in affected areas could proceed more effectively.