West Aceh Regency Proposes Rp1.28 Trillion Disaster Rehabilitation Fund

JAKARTA - The West Aceh Regency Government (Pemkab) has proposed a post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction fund for the 2025 flash flood to the central government of IDR 1.28 trillion to rebuild a number of public facilities and infrastructure that were damaged by natural disasters.

"The proposed rehabilitation and reconstruction funds worth Rp. 1.2 trillion are to rebuild a number of facilities that were damaged by natural disasters in West Aceh, with a period of three years," said Acting Regional Secretary (Sekda) of West Aceh Regency Kurdi, reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 13.

He detailed that the damage to housing due to natural disasters in West Aceh with various minor, moderate, and severe damages amounted to more than IDR 127.99 billion, then in the house sector the losses caused amounted to more than IDR 7.7 billion, the environmental infrastructure sector caused losses of more than IDR 68.8 billion.

For damage to environmental drainage facilities, the damage caused amounted to more than IDR 51.34 billion, and infrastructure damage due to the natural disaster of flash floods in West Aceh Regency reached more than IDR 1 trillion.

Then for damage to transportation facilities, the amount of losses reached more than IDR 697.9 billion, for road handling more than IDR 616.9 billion, damage to religious facilities of mosques and meunasah of IDR 3.2 billion, cross-sector IDR 4.5 billion, and various other impacts of damage.

The Kurdish Secretary said the proposed Rp1.28 trillion was an effort by the West Aceh Regency Government to rearrange a number of public facilities and community settlements that were damaged by ecological natural disasters and hydrometeorological disasters that occurred on November 26, 2025.

"The proposal is an effort to reorganize the severe damage caused by natural disasters," he said.

The Kurdish Secretary of State said that the proposal would later be discussed at the provincial level with the Aceh Government and the central government, regarding the impact of damage caused by natural disasters at the end of 2025.

"Our proposal has five sectors as usual, namely the housing sector, then the infrastructure sector, the economy, social and cross-sector. In yesterday's discussion, we proposed approximately Rp1.28 trillion for the needs of handling three years in West Aceh, both the value of damage and losses due to natural disasters," said West Aceh's Secretary of State Kurdi.