Deputy Interior Minister Reveals 8 Provinces Struggling to Implement Minimum Service Standards

Jakarta - Deputy Interior Minister Bima Arya Sugiharto has revealed eight provinces that are struggling to implement minimum service standards. “After reviewing the data, there are indeed eight provinces that entered our coaching clinic last year,” Bima stated during the Central Development Coordination Meeting (Rakorbangpus), broadcast on the Bappenas RI YouTube channel on Thursday (7/5/2026). In his presentation, Bima displayed the eight provinces: Aceh, Jambi, Maluku, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Papua, Riau, and South Sumatra. The basic or minimum public service standards at the provincial level are divided into six services. First, education, such as secondary education standards and special education. Second, health, services related to the impact of health crises due to disasters and extraordinary provincial events. Fourth, people’s housing, related to the rehabilitation of habitable houses and the provision of housing for communities affected by relocation. Fifth, public tranquillity and order services. Finally, social services such as rehabilitation for persons with disabilities, abandoned children, the elderly, and emergency social security in response to disasters. Additionally, there are 140 cities and regencies with the same status, now entering training clinics under the Interior Ministry. According to Bima, minimum services cannot be fulfilled not because of inability, but because budgets that are actually unnecessary can be shifted to those services. “Because it’s possible that it’s not that they can’t, but some don’t want to. So they are shifted to other things,” he said.