Money for compensation for damaged houses due to the Sumatra disaster will be disbursed next week.

JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian said the compensation money for damaged houses for people affected by the Sumatra disaster has been entered into the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB).

According to him, the compensation money is likely to be received by the affected community next week or the second week of February 2026.

"And I ask the Head of BNPB (Lieutenant General Suharyanto) for next week, please execute it immediately," said Tito, quoted by ANTARA from the Government Communication Agency (Bakom) release, Thursday, February 5.

This was conveyed by Tito as Head of the Post-disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Acceleration Task Force, at the Inauguration of the Temporary Housing and Inter-district in Disaster-affected Areas in Sumatra, in South Tapanuli, North Sumatra.

Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) obtained from the affected local governments, a total of 88,930 houses in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra were damaged due to the disaster. The houses are spread across 46 regencies/cities out of a total of 52 regencies/cities affected.

The number consists of 35,208 units damaged slightly, 17,350 units damaged moderately, and 24,443 units damaged severely. Residents whose houses were slightly damaged will receive Rp15 million. Meanwhile, for residents whose houses were damaged moderately will receive Rp30 million.

For residents whose houses are severely damaged, the government provides two options. Whether to stay in temporary housing or receive Rp600 thousand per head of household per month until permanent housing is built.

"And it needs to be asked again, later the house will be built by itself or together. If it's alone, BNPB will do it. If together, the Minister of PKP (Housing and Residential Areas)," said Tito.

In addition to the three classifications of damage, the government also received other data, namely 1,750 houses were carried away by flood currents or buried by landslides. For cases like this, Tito said the affected residents would receive the same treatment as residents whose houses were severely damaged.

The last classification, there are areas that only send data in batches, namely 5,852 damaged houses. The data does not specify which is severely damaged, moderately damaged or slightly damaged.

"The number of damage to these residents' houses is not called light, medium, or heavy. This needs to be repeated again (the data)," he said.