Home Affairs Minister Urges Sumatra's Disaster-Affected Regions to Rapidly Absorb Additional TKD
The government has channelled an additional TKD of IDR 10.6 trillion to disaster-affected regions, namely Aceh, North Sumatra (Sumut), and West Sumatra (Sumbar). Tito Karnavian said that this TKD addition is a direct instruction from President Prabowo Subianto to accelerate disaster response and support mitigation in the regions. Therefore, local governments are asked to use the funds precisely for targeted purposes and not reallocate them to activities unrelated to disaster management.
‘Indeed, the intention of the President is that this TKD is given, this additional TKD is for disaster response,’ Tito said in a statement on Thursday (21 May 2026).
He said this during the Coordinating Meeting of the Sumatra Post-Disaster PRR Task Force, held in hybrid format from the Task Force Post, the Head Office of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri), Jakarta, on Thursday (21 May 2026).
According to Tito, the use of the additional TKD should be focused on rehabilitation, mitigation, or disaster anticipation; the affected regions were asked to use the funding to repair damaged infrastructure, address landslides, strengthen river levees, and speed up the restoration of public services.
Meanwhile, unimpacted areas were asked to use the funds for prevention and strengthening disaster resilience. ‘Don’t use it for purposes far removed, that have no relation to disasters,’ Tito said.
In the meeting, Tito outlined the Ministry’s monitoring results on the progress of using the additional TKD in the affected areas. He appreciated several local governments for having drafted activity plans and for having enacted a Perkada as the basis for budget use. However, he cautioned that some regions had yet to draft usage plans or issue the Perkada.
Tito stressed that for those that have drafted a usage plan and enacted the Perkada, they should immediately execute the program on the ground. For those with only a draft, they should promptly issue the Perkada so activities can proceed in accordance with the rules. ‘For those who have completed the plan and the Perkada, please proceed with execution and realisation. We will monitor from the Task Force,’ he said.
He emphasised that the central government has deliberately given flexibility to regional heads so that budget use can be accelerated without lengthy discussions with the DPRD. According to him, this step is to ensure disaster response is not hampered by administrative processes. ‘I have stood up, once again, with the DPRD so that it is not discussed, but rather through the regional head’s discretionary policy,’ he explained.