Home Affairs Minister Urges Regional Governments to Expedite Permanent Housing Data Collection, Deadline Next Wednesday
Home Affairs Minister, Muhammad Tito Karnavian, has requested that regional governments in the disaster-affected areas of Sumatra expedite the data collection for permanent housing (huntap) along with its classification. Regional governments have been given a one-week deadline to complete the accurate data collection.
Tito, who also serves as Chairman of the Task Force for Accelerating Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (PRR) Post-Sumatra Disaster, emphasised that the speed and accuracy of the data are key to accelerating the construction of huntap for affected communities. He also stressed that huntap will only be built for houses that are severely damaged or lost.
“I gave a deadline until next Wednesday. Meanwhile, we are doing this in parallel, BPS is going down, BNPB is also going down, I from this Task Force also have a team going down to these three provinces. And I also ask for support from the governors to encourage the regents and mayors to carry out the data collection,” said Tito in a written statement on Thursday (16/4/2026).
He conveyed this to the media after leading the Coordination Meeting on Huntap Data Collection at the Secretariat of the PRR Task Force Post, Ministry of Home Affairs Central Office, Jakarta, on Wednesday (15/4).
It is known that there are three classifications of huntap, namely huntap insitu (at the original location), huntap ex situ (relocated to a chosen/self-funded location), and huntap ex situ centralised/communal (in the form of a complex). The results of this data collection will serve as the basis for determining the appropriate huntap construction scheme for affected residents.
Tito also asked regional heads to go directly and form small teams so that the data collection process can run more quickly.
Based on preliminary data, the number of proposed huntap constructions in the three affected provinces reaches 39,021 units. The details are: Aceh with 28,876 units, North Sumatra 7,321 units, and West Sumatra 2,824 units. However, all that data still needs to be verified by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) before construction is executed.
“Well, from the 39,000 it will also be verified by BPS. Whether it’s true, severely damaged/lost, eligible or not, and so on. Then BNPB and the Minister of PKP will carry out the execution,” he said.
The government has designated the Ministry of Housing and Settlement Areas (PKP) and the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) as the main spearheads for huntap construction. In addition, there is support from the Buddha Tzu Chi Foundation, Police (Polri), and the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs (Kemenko Polkam).
Tito emphasised that construction will be prioritised in areas where the data is ready first.
“What we build first are the areas that already have ready data. So, please, fellow regional heads, don’t let them be complained about by the community because of delays in carrying out the data collection,” he asserted.
The coordination meeting was attended directly by Minister of PKP Maruarar Sirait and Head of BPS Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti. Attending online were Deputy IV for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of BNPB Jarwansah as well as regional heads from the three affected provinces.