Government Removes KUR All Farmers Affected By The Sumatra Disaster

Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs Zulkifli Hasan. (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The government ensures that all people's business credit loans (KUR) for farmers affected by flooding in three provinces, namely Aceh, North Sumatra (North Sumatra) and West Sumatra (West Sumatra) will be removed.

Coordinating Minister for Food Zulkifli Hasan said the abolition of farmers' KUR debts was the focus of President Prabowo Subianto.

This step was taken to ease the burden on farmers affected by the disaster.

Currently, he said, the government is still collecting data so it is not yet known how much KUR value will be deleted.

"Nature disasters are of course all those whose debts are borrowed are deleted because of natural disasters, especially the President, he is very concerned about agriculture," he said at the BIG Conference 2025 event in Jakarta, Monday, December 8.

The man who is familiarly called Zulhas said the president not only deleted KUR but also repaired the affected agricultural infrastructure. Both irrigation and dams.

"That irrigation will be repaired, the dam will be repaired, and the agricultural KUR-KUR will all be removed," he said.

In addition, Zulhas also ensured that the government would continue to pour food reserves into Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.

"Two days ago, yes, in North Sumatra almost 9,000 tons, in Aceh 5,000 to 6,000 tons, in West Sumatra approximately 6,000 to 7,000 tons, and several million liters of cooking oil," he said.

Zulhas admitted that he had asked Perum Bulog to double the distribution of food to disaster-affected areas.

"Now thank God it has started smoothly, whether from North Sumatra, in Aceh, in West Sumatra," said Zulhas.