Implementation of Livelihood Assistance Continues to Increase, Becoming a Lifeline for Disaster Survivors
The Task Force for Accelerating Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (PRR) Post-Sumatra Disaster continues to increase the implementation of livelihood guarantee (jadup) aid distribution to support the lives of survivors following floods and landslides in Aceh, North Sumatra (Sumut), and West Sumatra (Sumbar).
Based on the daily report from the PRR Task Force as of 29 March 2026, the distribution of jadup aid has been evenly spread across the three affected provinces. From a total allocation for 62,990 individuals, 54,585 people have received assistance with a total distribution value of Rp 272.726 billion.
Aceh Province recorded the highest implementation of distribution, successfully reaching 42,540 individuals with a total fund of Rp 203.696 billion.
In Sumut, the aid has reached 10,235 individuals with a total fund of Rp 53.759 billion. Meanwhile, Sumbar has reached 1,794 individuals with a total fund of Rp 15.044 billion.
It should be noted that jadup is one of the post-disaster aid schemes provided to ensure the continuity of life for disaster survivors.
This step is taken to ensure that the recovery process not only addresses physical infrastructure but also the purchasing power of the community paralysed by the disaster.
The total basic social protection and basic needs assistance (BSSE and BIH) distributed has reached 35,780 disaster survivors with a total aid of Rp 107.340 billion.
In addition, the PRR Task Force is also disbursing Temporary Housing Waiting Funds (DTH) for disaster survivors who do not choose to live in temporary housing (huntara).
The DTH aid of Rp 600,000 is distributed every month for a period of three months, so each household head receives a total fund of Rp 1.8 million.
Previously, the Head of the PRR Task Force Post-Sumatra Disaster, Muhammad Tito Karnavian, emphasised that the speed of financial aid disbursement in the form of jadup, household furniture assistance, economic stimulus support, and DTH, greatly depends on the speed and completeness of data collection carried out by local governments.
Therefore, he encouraged regional heads in the affected areas to accelerate and complete the data of disaster survivors, so that targeted aid can be immediately distributed.
The statement was delivered by Tito at the Handover Ceremony of Phase One Keys for 120 Permanent Housing Units (Huntap) for the People Victims of Disaster in South Tapanuli Regency (Tapsel), Sumut, on Friday (27/3/2026).