Post-Disaster Task Force Ensures Life Guarantee Aid Reaches the Right Recipients
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Task Force for Accelerating Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (Satgas PRR) following the Sumatra disaster ensures that the distribution of life guarantee aid and other social assistance to disaster survivors continues to proceed based on principles of accuracy, accountability, and field-based data.
Satgas PRR Chairman Muhammad Tito Karnavian emphasised that all aid distribution mechanisms are conducted through a bottom-up data-based approach from local governments to ensure that aid truly reaches entitled communities.
“The speed of providing aid, whether for damaged houses, individuals, furniture, daily necessities money, and also economic stimulus, uses a bottom-up mechanism from district/city government data collection. Some are fast, some are slow,” Tito stated in his remarks in Jakarta on Tuesday.
He explained that the variation in aid distribution speed across regions is not due to delays from the central government, but rather differences in the speed of data collection and submissions from local governments.
“We found duplicate data in the field. Therefore, verification is very important to ensure aid reaches the right targets,” he stressed.
Satgas PRR data as of 13 April 2026 records the widespread distribution of social assistance from the Ministry of Social Affairs, including life guarantee aid, housing contents, and economic stimulus, in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.
In Aceh Province, aid distribution covers various districts/cities with significant values. Pidie Jaya District recorded total aid of Rp123.66 billion, followed by East Aceh at Rp37.68 billion, and Central Aceh at Rp27.14 billion. Meanwhile, other areas such as Bener Meriah, Nagan Raya, and Subulussalam City also received aid worth billions of rupiah.
In North Sumatra, social assistance was also distributed to various regions such as South Tapanuli with a total of Rp14.61 billion, Langkat at Rp8.51 billion, and Humbang Hasundutan reaching Rp3.62 billion. In West Sumatra, aid distribution includes Padang Panjang City at Rp81.81 billion, Padang Pariaman Rp9.18 billion, and Lima Puluh Kota Rp6.75 billion.
“Post-disaster social assistance continues to be distributed by us. There is no holiday; as soon as the data is available, we distribute it immediately,” said Saifullah Yusuf during the second phase aid distribution in Aceh Tamiang District on Thursday (10/4).
Specifically in Aceh Tamiang, the total social assistance distributed has reached Rp205.18 billion, covering life guarantee aid, housing contents, economic stimulus, up to compensation for deceased victims and those with severe injuries.
In the second phase, the aid distributed amounted to Rp76.68 billion, with details including life guarantee aid for 20,908 individuals worth Rp28.22 billion, housing contents aid for 5,941 household heads amounting to Rp17.82 billion, social economic stimulus for 5,491 household heads valued at Rp29.70 billion, and compensation for severe injury victims for 187 individuals amounting to Rp935 million.
Saifullah emphasised that all aid is distributed based on data that has been strictly verified by local governments together with relevant parties to ensure it reaches the right targets.