BANJARBARU - South Kalimantan (Kalsel) Governor Muhidin ordered all regional apparatus work units (SKPD) in the province to collaborate and work together to help flood victims, especially in Banjar and Tanah Laut Regencies.
Governor Muhudin in his statement in Banjarbaru, Saturday, said the direction was conveyed when he gathered all the heads of the Provincial Government of South Kalimantan SKPD in a disaster management meeting.
"The importance of accelerating the distribution of assistance with a neat coordination system so that assistance is targeted, does not overlap, and is really felt by the affected community," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, January 10.
Muhidin ordered each regional apparatus that had the ability and budget support to immediately prepare assistance.
"Do the packaging, determine the contents, then report to the BPBD of South Kalimantan. Later the BPBD will accommodate and coordinate the distribution," he said.
Muhidin specifically appointed the Head of the South Kalimantan BPBD as the main coordinator in the process of data collection and distribution of assistance from all SKPD so that there is no accumulation of assistance in one location and shortages in other locations, as was the experience of previous distribution.
According to him, coordination is needed to avoid excess assistance at one point, and so that there is no other place that lacks assistance, so that all must be recorded and directed.
Muhidin invited all levels of local government to make this humanitarian activity a call of conscience and a form of real service to the community.
"We help the community, work honestly, so that it brings blessings and rewards for all of us," said Muhidin.
Discussed by Vice President Gibran
Previously, Vice President (Wapres) Gibran Rakabuming Raka asked the Governor of South Kalimantan (Kalsel) Muhidin to empathize and always respond to and accept criticism/suggestions from residents regarding the continued flooding in the province.
Vice President Gibran, while reviewing the flood in the Tabuk River, Banjar Regency, South Kalimantan, received a dialogue from the Student Executive Board (BEM) alliance across South Kalimantan to convey the many complaints from residents about the flood disaster in this province and continue to recur.
In front of the Vice President, the BEM alliance throughout South Kalimantan expressed disappointment with the Governor of South Kalimantan who was considered less serious with the condition of residents who had been affected by the flood for more than a week and their houses were still flooded with water up to the waist of adults, even in some villages the flood water had reached the roof of the house.
"Please listen to this governor, this is the people's complaint, starting to think about long-term solutions. Maybe the spatial layout still has something that is not appropriate, the factor of the mine, and others that trigger flooding," said the Vice President as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, January 8.
The Vice President also received complaints from residents who were disappointed with the statement of the Governor of South Kalimantan concluding that the flood incident in Balangan Regency in December 2025 was not a flash flood and concluded that it had nothing to do with mining activities and other environmental destruction.
Vice President Gibran asked the Governor of South Kalimantan to accept suggestions and input from students and residents who complained that the regional environmental management also contributed to flooding in a number of districts/cities in the province, in addition to being caused by high rainfall.
"Governor, please hear this complaint from students as well. But I also ask students not to just criticize, there must also be constructive solutions," said Gibran.
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