The Ministry of Social Affairs has deployed emergency aid deliveries using aircraft to accelerate the handling of floods and landslides in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.
Social Minister Saifullah Yusuf said the use of airways was chosen so that basic medicines, logistics, and public kitchen utensils could arrive in time faster than Jakarta to areas whose land access was still cut off in the three provinces.
"Submission via plane allows assistance to arrive within hours so that it can be mobilized to the evacuation point immediately," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, November 28.
According to him, the entire process of handling emergency response, including the distribution of aid, is carried out in an integrated manner with BNPB, TNI, Polri, and local governments as directed by President Prabowo Subianto.
"The ones who lead are of course the Head of BNPB along with the TNI, Polri, Basarnas, and local governments. Everyone is working hard, including one of them is the Ministry of Social Affairs," he said.
The Ministry of Social Affairs ensures various types of assistance, ranging from evacuation tents, ready-to-eat food, mattresses, family kits, toddler and adult clothing, hygiene kits, medicines, to public kitchen utensils, have arrived in each area to this afternoon.
The emergency response assistance sent was worth IDR 3 billion for Aceh Province, more than IDR 6 billion for North Sumatra Province, and more than IDR 600 million for West Sumatra Province.
He emphasized that the assistance would still increase along with further data collection and distribution in the field.
The Ministry of Social Affairs has also activated more than 700 social granaries in disaster-prone areas that function as the nearest logistics warehouse to accelerate the fulfillment of the residents' initial needs before major assistance arrives.
"The social barns function as the nearest logistics warehouse, so we can respond to everything more quickly," he said.
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