JAKARTA - Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya confirmed that the government's handling of disasters in the three affected provinces, namely Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra, has been on a national scale since the first day on November 26, 2025.
The statement from the Presidential Secretariat was in response to a number of parties who were still discussing the status of the national disaster, which until now has not been determined by the government.
"There are still parties who continue to discuss the status of the national disaster. This disaster is in three provinces. All three are affected. But, maybe in the next one or two weeks, all the focus is only on Aceh. Since the first day, November 26, the central government has been handling a national scale in these three provinces," said Teddy in a Press Conference on the Development of the Sumatra Disaster Management at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base Integrated Command Post, Jakarta, Friday, December 19.
The Seskab explained that the government immediately mobilized all national forces from the first day after the flash flood disaster.
He detailed that there were more than 50 thousand TNI and Polri personnel, up to Basarnas, even volunteers who had been deployed to the three provinces. In the first week, there were 26 thousand TNI AD personnel who were already at the affected locations.
In addition, the Seskab also denied that the disaster handling budget did not come from the central government, if the disaster status had not been designated as a national disaster.
According to him, President Prabowo Subianto from the beginning has confirmed that the government has allocated a budget of up to Rp. 60 trillion gradually to rebuild temporary and permanent housing, to government building facilities, even sub-district offices that were damaged by floods and landslides.
"Also, all 52 regents, city mayors, were given cash on that day. If there is another need, just say it, it will definitely be given. And of course, assistance of all kinds has entered the district," said the Secretary of the Cabinet as reported by ANTARA.
Teddy explained that more than 100 units of the fleet, both sea vessels, aircraft, helicopters to distribute logistics, and about 1,000 units of heavy equipment from the Ministry of Public Works were deployed from various regions to the disaster site for evacuation and restoration of infrastructure.
He admitted that the recovery of infrastructure indeed took time, considering that many bridges and roads were broken, but gradually recovered and connected.
"The bridge has been immediately proven, one week, seven to ten (days), so. That's what works, not one or two people. All the residents there work and that's it, support everything, we support each other here," said Teddy.
He asked residents outside the disaster location to work together, supporting that if there is logistics that has not been delivered to the disaster location, it can be delivered to the TNI, Polri, Basarnas and BNPB.
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