Tito Reveals How the PRR Task Force Ensures Disaster Aid in Sumatra Reaches the Right Targets
The Post-Disaster Sumatra Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Task Force (Satgas PRR) is ensuring the distribution of living guarantee aid (jadup) and various other social aids to disaster survivors continues to proceed. The distribution is carried out with the principles of accuracy, accountability, and based on field data.
The Head of Satgas PRR, Muhammad Tito Karnavian, emphasised that all aid distribution mechanisms use a bottom-up data-based approach from local governments. This approach is deemed essential to ensure that aid truly reaches those who are entitled.
“The speed of providing aid, whether for damaged houses, individuals, furniture, daily necessities money, and economic stimuli, uses a bottom-up mechanism from data collection by district/city governments. Some are fast, some are slow,” said Tito in a written statement on Monday (13/4/2026).
Tito explained that the differences in the speed of aid distribution in each region are not caused by delays from the central government, but rather due to variations in the speed of data collection and submission from local governments. According to him, recipient data must go through a multi-layered verification process, starting from local governments, elements of the Regional Leadership Coordination Forum (Forkopimda), to field validation by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).
“We found duplicate data in the field. Therefore, verification is very important to ensure aid reaches the right targets,” he stressed.
Based on Satgas PRR data as of (13/4/2026), social aid distribution from the Ministry of Social Affairs in the form of living guarantees, housing contents, and economic stimuli has reached various regions in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.
In Aceh Province, Pidie Jaya District recorded the largest aid receipt with a total of Rp123.66 billion. Followed by East Aceh at Rp37.68 billion and Central Aceh at Rp27.14 billion. In addition, several other regions such as Bener Meriah, Nagan Raya, and Subulussalam City also received aid worth billions of rupiah.
Meanwhile, in North Sumatra, social aid was distributed among others to South Tapanuli at Rp14.61 billion, Langkat at Rp8.51 billion, and Humbang Hasundutan reaching Rp3.62 billion. In West Sumatra, aid was recorded to be distributed to Padang Panjang City at Rp81.81 billion, Padang Pariaman at Rp9.18 billion, and Fifty Cities District at Rp6.75 billion.
On the other hand, Social Minister Saifullah Yusuf emphasised that social aid distribution is carried out continuously without interruption as long as recipient data is available and validated.
“We continue to distribute post-disaster social aid. No holidays, as soon as the data is available, we distribute it immediately,” said Saifullah Yusuf.
Specifically in Aceh Tamiang, the total social aid distributed has reached Rp205.18 billion. The aid covers living guarantees, housing contents, economic stimuli, to compensation for deceased victims and severe injuries.
In the second phase, the aid distributed reached Rp76.68 billion with details of living guarantee aid for 20,908 souls worth Rp28.22 billion, housing contents aid for 5,941 household heads amounting to Rp17.82 billion, social economic stimuli for 5,491 household heads worth Rp29.70 billion, and compensation for 187 severe injury victims amounting to Rp935 million.
Saifullah emphasised that all aid is distributed based on data that has been strictly verified by local governments together with related elements to ensure aid reaches the right targets.