Jakarta, July 23 -- Indonesia's Ministry of Public Works reinforced its commitment to expediting recovery measures to rehabilitate and reconstruct irrigation infrastructure damaged by last year's floods and landslides in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.

"The Public Works Ministry is working to accelerate the repair of irrigation networks both through emergency response activities and rehabilitation and reconstruction projects to recover irrigation services in disaster-hit regions and sustain people's farming activities," Minister Dody Hanggodo told ANTARA in Jakarta on Thursday.

He explained that irrigation recovery efforts are being carried out under the division of authority between central and regional governments.

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