Prabowo Values Rp6.6 Trillion Rescue Can Build Permanent Housing for Disaster Victims

JAKARTA - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto emphasized that the funds from the state financial rescue of Rp6.6 trillion provided great benefits for the people. The funds can be used to renovate thousands of schools and build tens of thousands of permanent housing (huntap) for people affected by disasters.

The statement was made by President Prabowo when attending an event to hand over the results of state financial rescue and administrative fines by the Forest Area Regulation Task Force (Satgas PKH) in the courtyard of the Attorney General's Office, South Jakarta.

Prabowo assessed the achievement as concrete evidence that law enforcement is not only repressive, but also able to provide a direct impact on improving people's welfare.

"With Rp6.6 trillion, we can renovate about 6,000 schools or build 100,000 permanent housing for refugees from disaster victims. This concerns the lives of hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters," said Prabowo at the Kejaksaan Agung Round Building, South Jakarta.

He emphasized that the state's losses due to violations committed by corporations were not merely a matter of numbers, but also touched on humanitarian aspects.

The President also highlighted the fact that the rescue funds came from around 20 companies that had not fulfilled their obligations and had harmed the state's finances.

Furthermore, Prabowo emphasized the government's commitment to eradicating corruption as well as the practice of plundering state wealth indiscriminately.

"If the wealth of the country continues to leak because it is stolen, bribed, manipulated through false reports or smuggling, then the country will weaken and eventually collapse," he said.

Prabowo also reminded that since the beginning of his term, the government had formed the PKH Task Force through Presidential Regulation Number 5 of 2025. The task force was mandated to regulate forest areas and crack down on various illegal practices that had been going on for decades.

On the same occasion, the President expressed his high appreciation to the PKH Task Force and all cross-agency elements involved. In addition to successfully saving the state's finances worth Rp6.6 trillion, the PKH Task Force was also able to regain control of more than 4 million hectares of problematic forest areas.

According to Prabowo, the extent of the forest area that has been disciplined reflects the magnitude of the violations that have been allowed to occur. He assessed that the practice was carried out by corporations that ignored the law and harmed national interests. He even reminded that if the leakage of state wealth continues to be allowed, Indonesia has the potential to be destroyed.

"This is only the tip of the nation's loss. If you trace it deeper, the state's loss can actually reach hundreds of trillion rupiah," he concluded.