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Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Culture Pratikno gave a press statement after a limited disaster emergency response meeting in Aceh, North Sumatra, West Sumatra at the BNPB office, Jakarta, Thursday (27/11/2025) ANTARA/M Riezko Bima Elko Prasetyo

JAKARTA - The government held a coordination meeting for handling hydrometeorological disasters that hit Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra involving regional heads, BNPB, Basarnas, and related ministries.

Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (PMK) Pratikno explained that extreme rain due to the Senyar tropical cyclone caused floods, landslides, and disruptions to transportation services in the three provinces.

"In recent days there has been a tropical cyclone, Senyar, which brings extra extraordinary rain, extraordinary strong winds, very extreme, hitting the three provinces. This has resulted in flooding, landslides, and extreme weather which also affects service transportation," said Pratikno at Grha BNPB, East Jakarta, Thursday, November 27.

Pratikno said the amount of infrastructure damage such as broken bridges to road access buried by landslides was a serious obstacle in handling emergencies. This condition hampers the distribution of aid.

"This has claimed quite a lot of lives, but the data is still being updated. Then it resulted in extensive infrastructure damage, especially bridges, then roads, landslides, both road lands that were buried from landslides from above and land that were cut off due to landslides. down," said Pratikno.

"This has resulted in difficulties to provide assistance. This is our extraordinary challenge," he added.

According to Pratikno, all relevant ministries have been in the field to speed up handling. The head of BNPB, who is currently in Tarutung, was asked to coordinate the delivery of aid by air considering that many land access was cut off.

"We have discussed with the Head of BNPB who is currently in Tarutung, to shift sending aid by air. Because we can't wait for the provision of assistance until this land transportation infrastructure tool is completed," he said.

Pratikno emphasized that all elements of the government are currently working to accelerate handling in affected areas. He said President Prabowo had requested that emergency handling be carried out quickly, accompanied by preparations for post-disaster recovery.

"What is clear is that President Prabowo has ordered us to handle this emergency response. At the same time, at the same time we are conducting an emergency response, but at the same time we are also preparing after the emergency later for community recovery, because this infrastructure must also recover immediately," he added.