Sumatra Post-Disaster Task Force Urges Execution of Additional Budget for Recovery
The Chairman of the Sumatra Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Acceleration Task Force (Satgas PRR), Muhammad Tito Karnavian, has requested that ministries and agencies (K/L) immediately execute the available Additional Budget (ABT). All programmes are targeted for completion before December 2lag 2026 to ensure that the benefits are promptly felt by communities in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.
Acceleration is directed towards programmes concerning public safety and basic needs, ranging from river normalisation in flood-prone areas to the restoration of electricity, communications, fuel and gas distribution, roads, bridges, and the construction of permanent housing.
“For ministries and agencies whose budgets have already been released, please execute and complete them before December as time is becoming increasingly short,” said Tito in a written statement on Wednesday (2/9/2026).
He emphasised this during the Sumatra Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Progress Meeting at the Satgas PRR Post, Ministry of Home Affairs, Jakarta. Based on monitoring and evaluation results by the Satgas PRR as of 1 September 2026, 20 out of 30 ministries and agencies have received or obtained their ABT ceilings.
These agencies include the Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Residential Areas, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, and the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB).
The availability of these funds must be immediately translated into field operations. Each agency is required to ensure that administrative stages, procurement, physical implementation, and payments proceed according to schedule so that recovery progress increases significantly during the final four months of 2026.
For agencies that have not yet received ABT approval, Tito requested that programme officers, alongside officials from the National Post of the Satgas PRR, coordinate directly with the Directorate General of Budget at the Ministry of Finance. Such coordination is necessary to identify and resolve document deficiencies or administrative hurdles.
“For those not yet approved, the PIC, together with officials from the Satgas PRR Post, should come and coordinate with the Directorate General of Budget at the Ministry of Finance. That is the key,” said Tito. “Remember, there are only four months left.”
In addition to accelerating the available budget, Tito requested all agencies to remap affected areas that have not yet been reached by recovery programmes. Mapping must be conducted down to the local level to ensure no regions or community groups are overlooked.
“Identify where electricity and communications were affected by the disaster but have not yet recovered. Then fuel and gas, national, provincial, and district/city road access, as well as bridges,” said Tito. “Another thing that the community is eagerly awaiting is the construction of permanent housing.”
The normalisation of rivers that have the potential to overflow was also requested as a priority. Such measures are necessary as an anticipatory step to protect settlements, productive land, and public infrastructure ahead of periods of high rainfall.
Tito also encouraged local governments to accelerate the utilisation of all available funding sources, including additional Transfers to Regions (TKD), inter-regional financial assistance, and General Allocation Funds (DAU). The alignment of central and regional budgets is expected to expand the scope of recovery while preventing overlapping interventions.