KKP Reveals Two Salt Centers Damaged Due To Flash Floods In Sumatra

Director of Marine Resources of the Directorate General of Marine Management of the KKP Frista Yorhanita. Photo: Theresia Agatha/VOI

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) said that two salt centers were damaged by flash floods in Sumatra, at the end of November 2025. The two damaged salt centers are located in Aceh Province.

This was conveyed by the Director of Marine Resources of the Directorate General of Marine Management of the KKP Frista Yorhanita in a press conference on the Strategic Program of the Directorate General of Marine Management at the KKP office, Jakarta, Thursday, December 4.

"We have just received reports from the regions, from the service, there are indeed two salt centers in Pidie and Aceh Jaya and both have been affected," said Frista.

Frista ensured that in North Sumatra and West Sumatra there was no damage to salt ponds. Given, he said, in both areas there was no salt pond.

"Indeed, the majority of salt ponds are only in Aceh, if there are no other Sumatra," he said.

However, Frista did not yet know the amount of the damage to the two salt ponds. He said his party was waiting from regional agencies.

"We didn't count it before, right, we received the report just yesterday, yes. So, maybe later we will ask our official friends to calculate the area and the total loss," he explained.

As for the recovery process, it is believed that it will not take long enough, provided that the budget is indeed available.

"If the repairs are correct, I don't think it will take long, yes. If the budget is available, we can make repairs quickly," he added.

Previously, the Director General of Marine and Fishery Resources Supervision (PSDKP) of the KKP Pung Nugroho Sasono said that many shrimp ponds were damaged by the floods that hit Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra. The affected shrimp ponds were filled with mud.

"We all know that there are many ponds (affected by the flood) and that's all flat," said the man who is familiarly called Ipunk at the Cesium-137 Free Shrimp Export Release event at Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta, Wednesday, December 3.

When asked further about the number of affected farmers, Ipunk could not confirm because the data was at the Directorate General of Aquaculture.

However, Ipunk admitted that many shrimp ponds were affected.

"That's the data at the Budidaya Directorate General of Fisheries. Yesterday there were a lot of them. Right, all of these (fish ponds) are mud-murmed," he said.