Sumatra PRRP Masterplan Becomes Sole Reference for Ministries Until 2028
The issuance of the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture’s Decree Number 25 of 2026 regarding the Sumatra Post-Disaster Natural Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Acceleration Master Plan (Renduk PRRP) serves as a binding framework for 32 ministries and agencies in conducting post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.
The Decree reinforces that compliance by ministries and agencies with the Master Plan is absolute, ensuring the principles of ‘building back better, safer, and sustainable’ are applied to all permanent rehabilitation and reconstruction projects.
According to the fourth clause of the Decree, ministries, agencies, and local governments must accelerate post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction in the provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra in accordance with the Sumatra PRRP Master Plan and technical guidelines established by the head of the Task Force implementation team.
Through this Decree, every ministry and agency within the PRR Task Force is prohibited from acting independently or prioritising sectoral interests. The government recognises that large-scale post-disaster recovery spanning 53 regencies and cities across three provinces requires a single integrated working system with uniform control patterns.
Furthermore, the governance mechanism within the Decree mandates the Chairperson of the PRR Task Force Steering Team to submit periodic evaluation reports directly to President Prabowo Subianto every two months, or whenever necessary.
The PRR Task Force is also mandated to oversee the recovery process to anticipate bureaucratic bottlenecks and ensure that rehabilitation budgets are fully utilised according to targets. In recent weeks throughout June, coordination meetings have been frequently held at the National Post to urge all ministries and agencies to complete budget additional application documents to the Ministry of Finance.
This Decree serves as an assertion that the government, through the PRR Task and Force, intends to avoid project delays, overlapping programmes, or construction that proceeds without cross-ministerial and local government synchronisation. This strict oversight is considered crucial given the vast scale of damage covering 53 regencies and cities in Sumatra.
With the legal certainty provided by the Decree, technical ministries such as the Ministry of Public Works and Housing (PUPR), the Ministry of Social Affairs, and other agencies no longer have the leeway to run rehabilitation programmes outside the corridor of the Sumatra PRRP Master Plan. The use of a single database based on ‘by name, by address’ (BNBA) has also been agreed upon to prevent overlapping programmes or aid in the field.
The Sumatra PRRP Master Plan serves as a detailed roadmap for rehabilitation and reconstruction. The document contains 11,512 rehabilitation and reconstruction activities to be implemented gradually from 2026 to 2028, with a budget of Rp 100.16 trillion.
The rehabilitation programme includes the construction of permanent housing, the rehabilitation of schools and health facilities, the construction of permanent roads and bridges, river normalisation, the rehabilitation of landslide-affected areas, and the economic recovery of communities through support for MSMEs, fishermen, and local markets.
In the Master Plan document, the government previously noted that the total requirement for post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction in Sumatra reached over Rp 205 trillion, based on the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (Jitupasna) for the 53 affected regencies and cities.
However, after a process of verification, programme alignment between ministries and agencies, and the determination of permanent rehabilitation priorities, the government and the House of Representatives (DPR) finally agreed on a rehabilitation and reconstruction ceiling of Rp 100.16 trillion on 25 May.
The Head of the PRR Task Force, Tito Karnavian, stated that the DPR’s support for the Master Plan is a vital momentum for synchronising permanent rehabilitation across ministries and agencies. “The total budget we proposed has, thankfully, been approved at the government level,” he said.
He also urged ministries, agencies, and local governments to align their programmes as quickly as possible so that the activities set out in the Master Plan can be implemented promptly. “I emphasise that the funds have been prepared by the Minister of Finance, the President has issued directive orders, the official letters exist, and the budget allocation is available. The community is waiting,” he said during a coordination meeting in Aceh on 9 June 2026.