PRR Task Force head Tito Affirms Local Government Data Completeness as the Key to Accelerating Aid Disbursement

The Head of the Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Acceleration Task Force (PRR) for Post‑Disaster Sumatra, Muhammad Tito Karnavian, has emphasised that the completeness of data from local governments is the key to expediting aid disbursement to disaster victims in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra. He made the remark while handing over aid, bereavement allowances, compensation for the injured, living allowance (jadup), housing contents assistance (BIH), and socio‑economic stimulation assistance (BSSE) to victims of hydrometeorological disasters in Pidie Jaya Regency, Aceh Province, on Friday 6 March 2026. He said the central government prioritises areas that submit victim data fastest to receive aid first. “The strategy is simple: whoever sends data fastest is the one we will send social assistance to first,” Tito said in a press release received by Kompas.com on Saturday 7 March 2026. Pidie Jaya Regency has become the largest recipient because it is deemed the fastest and most complete in submitting affected victims’ data to the central government. “From nearly Rp 900 billion of the first tranche, about half is for Aceh. Of this Acehnese portion, more than Rp 200 billion has been channelled to Pidie Jaya because its data are the fastest and most complete,” Tito explained. According to data from the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos), the aid disbursed includes bereavement compensation for 56 people who died amounting to Rp 840 million, assistance for 23 seriously injured amounting to Rp 115 million, and living allowances (jadup) for 66,629 people for 90 days with a total budget of Rp 89.9 billion. On that occasion, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) also provided support in the form of 250 packages of worship equipment, 20 dump trucks, 7 excavators, and 3 backhoe loaders to help accelerate handling and recovery in the disaster-affected area. In addition to direct aid, the government is also preparing permanent housing (huntap) for residents whose homes were heavily damaged or destroyed. Tito stressed that acceleration of huntap construction also depends on the completeness of local government data, including residents’ choices to build on their own land or in a communal housing area. “If the data is complete, we can execute immediately in coordination with the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) and the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PKP),” he asserted. For information, Tito’s visit to Pidie Jaya was accompanied by Social Minister Saifullah Yusuf, Director General of the Directorate for Regional Administration (Adwil) Kemendagri Safrizal ZA, Aceh Deputy Governor Fadhlullah, Pidie Jaya Regent Sibral Malasyi, and Acting President Director of Pos Indonesia Haris.