PRR Task Force Pushes Central-Regional Synchronisation to Accelerate Permanent Recovery
The Chairman of the Sumatra Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Acceleration Task Force (PRR), Muhammad Tito Karnavian, has urged local governments in Aceh Province to synchronise all permanent rehabilitation and reconstruction programmes. This is intended to enable regional authorities to play a role in permanent recovery within sectors not yet addressed by central ministries and agencies, through the Sumatra Post-Disaster Master Plan.
Tito emphasised that the Master Plan serves as the primary reference for the permanent recovery phase for the 2026–2028 period, which encompasses 11,520 activities with a total budget reaching Rp100.166 trillion. Under this scheme, local governments are expected to share roles and responsibilities with the central government to avoid overlapping work on the ground.
As an example, the Ministry of Public Works (PU) has planned 1,141 specific activities for physical infrastructure repairs. In response, Tito noted that local governments could take the lead by handling other infrastructure that falls outside the scope of the Ministry of Public Works’ programme.
“This is what we truly need to synchronise. We want to request details for these 1,141 activities to see exactly where they are, so that colleagues in districts, cities, and provinces know which parts are being handled. This means identifying which remaining tasks become the obligation of the regional governments to execute,” said Tito during the Coordination and Evaluation Meeting on Development Achievements and Post-Hydrometeorological Disaster Recovery Acceleration at the Aceh Governor’s Office on Tuesday (9/6/2026).
To this end, Tito affirmed that his office will immediately request the 23 involved ministries and agencies to detail all work programmes along with their specific locations. Data transparency is considered vital so that local governments can map out unaddressed areas and fill the remaining recovery needs.
Furthermore, Tito assessed that disaster-affected local governments in Aceh possess sufficient fiscal capacity to take action. The condition is that they must be able to maximise the additional Regional Transfer (TKD) amounting to Rp10.6 trillion that has been distributed to the affected areas. In addition to TKD, optimisation can also be achieved through inter-regional grant schemes, where regions receiving larger TKD allocations assist affected regions with more limited budget allocations.
As a concrete next step, Tito will push ministries and agencies to accelerate the submission of recovery budgets to the Ministry of Finance. He stated that he does not want the permanent recovery process on the ground to be hindered by administrative and bureaucratic matters while the budget is already available.