May 25, 2026 | 07:56 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Minister of Home Affairs Muhammad Tito Karnavian stated that the permanent recovery process of the Sumatra disaster that struck at the end of November 2025 has commenced. The Head of the Task Force for Accelerating Rehabilitation and Reconstruction after the Sumatra disaster aims to complete the permanent recovery in three affected provinces: North Sumatra, West Sumatra, and Aceh, within the next three years.Tito explained that the post-disaster management is carried out in three phases: emergency response, transition, and permanent recovery. "Now we will start the process towards permanent recovery," said Tito after the coordination meeting of the Sumatra Post-Disaster Recovery Task Force at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, on Monday, May 25, 2026.Tito stated that the government has formulated a master plan for accelerating the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Sumatra. "So, from those three stages, emergency response, transition, now we enter the phase towards permanence. We call it 'rehab-rekon' (rehabilitation and reconstruction), and the key is 'renduk' (master plan)," said the former Chief of the Indonesian National Police.He explained that the master plan is the result of data recapitulation from the regencies/cities, provincial governments, and ministries/agencies, which are then synchronized by the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas). "This master plan is compiled from all regencies/cities, provinces, and ministries/agencies, and then it is aligned. From this alignment, by Bappenas, then our Task Force will also adjust, it will be completed within three years, 2026, 2027, 2028," Tito said.Tito mentioned that there are 11,512 activities to be carried out in the permanent recovery process. These activities include the construction of roads, bridges, schools, and permanent housing for affected communities. "The priority in 2026 is infrastructure, rivers, roads, then schools, and others," he said.In November 2025, flash floods and landslides hit northern Sumatra. It spread across 52 regencies/cities in North Sumatra, West Sumatra, and Aceh.The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) recorded the death toll from the disaster at 1,207 people. Meanwhile, six months later, 137 people are still reported missing. The ecological disaster in the three provinces damaged homes, health and education facilities, places of worship, bridges, and roads.Read: Govt Urged to Compensate Public Over Sumatra BlackoutClick here to get the latest news updates from Tempo on Google News
