JAKARTA - The Head of the Aceh Regional Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Task Force, Safrizal Zakaria Ali, revealed that the project for 16,294 temporary housing units (huntara) for victims of the Sumatra disaster throughout Aceh is in the acceleration phase of development.
"Based on provisional data, the total huntara planned throughout Aceh reached 16,294 units, with the development process continuing to move significantly in various districts/cities," said Safrizal in his statement in Jakarta, quoted by Antara.
Of the total, 3,248 huntara units have been completed or equivalent to 19.9 percent, while another 13,046 units (about 80.1 percent) are in the process of being built.
Safrizal emphasized that all levels in the field were working hard to ensure that the development target could be immediately completed, given the urgent needs of the victims who were still living in the evacuation location.
Meanwhile, for the distribution scheme of the Waiting for Housing Fund (DTH), the total recipients reached 8,047 heads of households (KK). Of these, approximately 4,000 KK have received DTH, while approximately 4,000 other KK are still in the finalization process, dominated by the opening of accounts and field verification stages.
Until now, 12 regencies/cities have submitted huntara and 16 regencies/cities have submitted DTH.
A number of regions have shown outstanding progress in completion. Aceh Tamiang is the region with the largest achievement, namely about 1,000 huntara units have been completed and 1,600 units are still being built.
Followed by North Aceh with 829 units completed and 3,400 units being worked on, then Pidie Jaya with 222 units completed, Central Aceh with 275 units completed, and Bener Meriah which has completed 200 units out of a total of hundreds of units planned.
Safrizal ZA emphasized that the central government also worked extra to ensure that all processes ran smoothly, from data collection, acceleration of development, to the distribution of assistance.
He ensured that all related parties continued to coordinate intensively so that the construction of the huntara and the distribution of DTH could be completed immediately and the affected community could get certainty of housing in the near future.
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