Editor’s Note
- Disaster recovery in North Sumatra to cost 430 billion rupiah
- Planned construction of 200 permanent housing units
- Central government to take over disaster recovery efforts
- Tito: North Sumatra has improved
Disaster recovery in North Sumatra to cost 430 billion rupiah
The provincial government of North Sumatra (Pemprov) has allocated a budget of 430 billion rupiah for flood and landslide recovery. The budget is divided into five priority areas to accelerate the recovery process in the affected areas.
The largest allocation is for infrastructure, including repairs to roads, bridges, dikes, river normalization, water management, and housing renovation, totaling approximately 275 billion rupiah.
In addition, 1.68 billion rupiah has been allocated to the communications and information technology sector, 36.8 billion rupiah to education, 6.9 billion rupiah to healthcare, and 110 billion rupiah in financial support to local governments.
“We will shift the budget to post-disaster recovery. We will divide the education sector into two: infrastructure and free education in disaster areas,” said North Sumatra Governor Muhammad Bobby Afif Nasution during a coordination meeting (Rakor) with the head of the Task Force for Post-Disaster Recovery in Sumatra at the Raja Inal Siregar Hall of the North Sumatra Governor’s Office, Jalan Diponegoro No. 30, Medan, on Monday, January 12, 2026.
Plans for the construction of 200 permanent homes
In addition, Bobby Nasution also announced plans for the construction of 200 permanent homes (huntap) with a total budget of INR 12 billion. This amount is equivalent to the huntap built by the central government, which cost INR 60 million per home.
“We are waiting for data from the districts/cities and synchronizing it with BNPB’s data. If Huntap is fully covered by BNPB, we will add this budget to BNPB, which will bring the value of the houses built by BNPB to over 60 million Indonesian rupiah,” said Bobby Nasution.
Central government continues disaster reconstruction
Meanwhile, the central government continues disaster reconstruction in North Sumatra, Aceh, and West Sumatra. Through the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), the central government has prepared 5,951 temporary housing units for North Sumatra, repaired roads and bridges, and provided logistical assistance and other supplies.
“Although the state of emergency has been lifted, we continue to support all of you in the recovery process. There are no more people in evacuation centers during Ramadan; everyone is staying in temporary housing, renting a house, or staying with family. We will cover the costs of this. We have also set aside 600,000 Indonesian rupiah per person per month for evacuees, 3 million Indonesian rupiah for the replacement of household goods, and 5 million Indonesian rupiah for start-up capital for affected entrepreneurs,” said BNPB Chairman Lieutenant General Suharyanto.
Tito: North Sumatra has improved
The head of the Disaster Management Task Force in Sumatra, Tito Karnavian, stated that several indicators point to the disaster area returning to normal.
These indicators include the functioning of the government from the provincial to the village level, good public services, easy access to land, sustained economic activity, and the availability of gas stations, gas, LPG, electricity, internet, and drinking water.
“Our assessment shows that the situation in North Sumatra has generally improved. There are only a few areas where we still need to accelerate progress, such as South Tapanuli, Central Tapanuli, North Taput, and Sibolga, where several indicators are still not satisfactory,” said Tito Karnavian.
The coordination meeting was also attended by Deputy Minister of Women Empowerment and Child Protection Veronica Tan, Chair of the North Sumatra Regional People’s Representative Council (DPRD), Erni Ariyanti Sitorus, North Sumatra Deputy Governor Surya, members of the Regional Communication Forum for Leadership (Forkopimda), all regents and mayors of the disaster-affected areas, Sulaiman Harahap, Acting Secretary of the North Sumatra Province, and relevant regional government agencies (OPD) of the North Sumatra provincial government. ***obi
